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CONTENTS OF VOL. XII.
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NUMBER 67.
Page 1, Description of new Species of Pyralide of the Subfamily Pyraustine. By Sir Grores F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. ....
II. Notes on the Lamellicorn Genus Popillia and Descriptions of some new Oriental Species in the British Museum. By GILBERT Soe ANTE ge SIE Se ERO IC an COIL g LICR Ca ae a
III. Some Mycetophilid Synonymy (Diptera). By F. W. RBA DS ies herein «a Shere .atenng <p ue he 2) 25 OSS COE OCOD Sa
LV. Some new Species of Indian Tenebrionide. By K. G. Buarr. 56 V. On a new Species of Clementia. By A. J. JuKES-BROWNE, E.RS., F.GS. (Plate L)........----.0 eee se MRT caararor eres eli 5
VI. Descriptions of new Species of African Heterocera in the Oxford Museum. By G. T. BrTHUNE-BaKER, ELS. EAs eae ae
VII. Descriptions of Four new Fishes discovered by Mr. G. L. Bates in the Nyong River, 8. Cameroon. By G. A. BoULENGER,
Tue SS 2 a2 0 eee oie Ys tO eae
VIII. On the Presence of Two closely allied Species of Toads of the Genus Nectophryne in Cameroon. By G. A. BovLENGER, F.R.S. 70
IX. Description of a new Snake discovered by My, A. E. Pratt in
Eastern Peru. By G. A. BouLENGER, F.RS. ,..-..- 000s sere ees 72 X. Note on an interesting Abnormality in Echinus esculentus. By Hersert L. Hawkins, M.Sc., F.G.S., Lecturer in Geology, 73
University College, Reading .......-sseesseesercereeectetrrces
XI. Descriptions of new Species belonging to the Homopterous Family Cicadide. By W. L. DISTANT ..... ++ ++ ee eer rere 76
XII. On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others. By G. [UTS are a A ts a 2) (0 0100) RRS ca a aa 81
ir CONTENTS.
Page NOT Seme new Foe fem Asis and Afmiea By Onprisip I oo cea cn ech cada eke canes ++ Wks bone eae s&s
XT. nn ee ea = i OS Ee Benash Maseum, with ee pew Speces By Guorreer arpa, MA.
SO en i oat ee 6 NS 110
XVIL The Clesticstio of the Pacad Fishes By C. Tare on ee ee Cee ere SS lil Procesdimes of the Geolemiecal Sorety .........-...-.....- 146-152
No. XXXV-. By Pri Minne, MD_LLD_ PES. oe ie: 153
XIX Observations on Coleoptera of the Family Buprestide, with —— of mew Species » On 6 ieee
iii teeta et ee ee ee a
XXL Observstions @ the Coloration of Echiwxs engulorus, A Aces= 5, J. Srcarr Teowsos. PLD_ELS FRESE eter im Vertebrate Zoology. Vietoria University of Manchester ....._.. 199
XI New and Incie-kmows Diptera Nematocers fram Ceylon iy © Wi. Meeks =... eee iss
AX On new Meremsls obtained by the Utakwa Expedition to Dac New Game. By Taomas
XXIV. Some mew Species of Uromys. By Otorretp Tzowas.. 212 XXV. Farther Notes om the Skull, Bram, and Orzams of Special
XVI Note om Myrine copemss. By C Tare Becas, MA 299
EXVIE A “sitar eabarcmemengeEE Sy > Tk 5o~ By W. T. Carwas, DSe
= _ XSVIEL Deserptioms of mew Species of Molina By G. B. Sevazer,F LS (Pis& IL)
Proceedims: of the Geological Society ............ est
CONTENTS. Vv
NUMBER 69, Page XXIX. A Report on the Extra-Antarctic Amphipoda Hyperiidea collected by the ‘ Discovery.’ By Dororuy A. Srewart, B.Sc., Platt Zoological Research Scholar, the University of Manchester. GE tates Pave gn ie Serr Aas, dacs ietaaldate <iaac'40 os vcs maaan oan 245
XXX. Note on the Crop in the Mallophaga and on the Arrange- ment and Systematic Value of the Crop-Teeth. By Brucr F, PU RRORIOEE SRE ee iLls wiefuigiel on) oidlcjosele eunjove es eo fic A ieBfvw ofa oll ole: he lore 266
XXXI. A new Genus of Glossophagine Bat from Colombia. By
MPI IPR HCE TC OMUAD ei: E.6 titi siehd vie aah ajeceisuaieie'+ sbinihe.a bis) susfo oho» Anis b's 270 XXXII. Ephemeride from Tropical Africa. By the Rev. A. E. Span Cyne Wie ee SE ener sm iS cia o aisle thas ain’ s = etal's isle als view’ oie. heieimni 271 XXXIII. Fishes from Peru, collected by Dr. H. O. Forbes. By RIES EEC GUN MIEN lara coke) s Oxi qish ye orelc a ae. 9: Faia. alae wets aye si tyes es 278 XXXIV. Fishes from the River Ucayali, Peru, collected by Map Wowusey, by Clare REGAN, MA, oo. 8. cock ee cw nee ee 281 XXXV, Contributions to a Knowledge of Oriental Rhynchota. Sele E) ES BANU E Ges ariepete chu Pl asarche olelsiniaca 21,4 /-lep-Yeisae>le 9 a4 «010 p:° 283 XXXVI. On a Kangaroo and a new Palm-Civet in the British Mirmmenrive | Dye PNGE CIWAEZ! «ols da ose sy cnc e sn s0 ee nee ns 288
XXXVII. Brief Descriptions of new Thysanoptera.—I. By Ricuarp 8. BaGnatt, F.L.S., F.E.S. (Hope Department of Zoology, Ranversiby Moser ORfOTAN NG cos clsindcciictcw sss cece ec cemsenac’ 290
XXXVIII. Descriptions of new Species of Pyralide of the Sub- family Pyraustine. By Sir GroreGE F, Hampson, Bart., F.Z.8., &c. 299
Bculsp emote tyes nike. Uy tectiotet nad cena ce pul eelc ce awe axes 319
NUMBER 70.
XXXIX. Descriptions of new Species of Staphylinide from the West Indies. By Matcoim Cameron, M.B., R.N., F.E.S.—Part I. 321
XL. On new Species of Misteride and Notices of others, with Descriptions of new Species of Miponius. By G. Lewis, F.L.S.
late VEIT)... nsc.<5 He Bic nt LG pty SO okt POO US SORE Tenor 361 XLI. The Geographical Races of the Woolly Opossum (Philander Reger ee SyROIE DRUG DP HOM AR: fc. a ipc se fs x, «Jains. 9 #\e sine ep © >.0.8 358
XLII. Three new Voles from the [nner Hebrides, Scotland. By G. E. H. Barrerr-Hamitton and Martin A.C. HINTON ....., 361
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Page XLII. Descriptions and Records of Bees—LIV. By T, D. A. CockERELL, University of Colorado ......e..eeee cece ene eeees 368
XLIV. Thawnastotherium osborni, anew Genus of Perissodactyles from the Upper Oligocene Deposits of the Bugti Hilis of Baluchistan. —Preliminary Notice. By C. ForsrEr-Coopsr, M.A., University Demonstrator in Comparative Morphology, Cambridge .......... 576
XLV. Notes on Actinostola callosa (Verrill) =Dysactis crassi- cornis (Hertwig). By OLwen M. Ress, B.Sc.,U.C.W. Aberystwyth. 382
XLVI. A new Species of Dwarf Potto. By Ovpririp Tuomas . 387
XLVII. British Fossil Crinoids.—IX. Cydonocrinus parvulus, n, g. et sp., Yoredale Beds, Yorkshire. By F. A. Baruer, F.R.S. . 588
XLVIIL. Notes on the Lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan and Descriptions of a few new Species. By G. J. ARROW,.........+: 5o4
NUMBER 71.
XLIX. On a small Collection of Marine Shells from Henderson Island. “By EA.-Seire, 15:0. .(Plate LX.)\2 jacive de eames 409
L. Some Notes on the Parasitic Copepod Thersitina gasterostet, Pagenstecher. By Ropert Gurney, M.A. (Plates XXIII.) .. 415
LI, Synopsis of the Melolonthid Genus Anecistrosoma, with Descriptions of new Species and an allied new Genus. By G. J. PATRIRO Wer & icuert dete Giclee Gases ele phe ern 619-9. 0's a.8 of eh¥ ia nib is 861s lade cet 425
LII. New Minute Terrestrial and Aquatic Mollusca from the Dutch East Indian Island of Beilan-Beilan, with Descriptions of Four new Genera and Subgenera. By H. B. Preston, F.Z.8, .... 452
LIII. A new Variety of Polydesmus coriaceus, Porat, and Note on a Centipede Monstrosity. By C. M. Srvpre, B.Sc........... se.» 439
LIV. Some hitherto-undescribed Ipide and Platypodide from India and Burma. By Lt.-Col. Winn Sampson, F.E.S. ........ 443
LV. Note on the Voles of the orcadensts Group. By Martin PSG MELLIN GROIN Ee bore Ske i Let ice lores usin e lef atete cits fete ate) « ny lee 452
LVI, The Fishes of the San Juan River, Colombia. By C. Tarr REGAN, IMA. ciccas cee kien Sha His RAT 4 ye SS Sib Se melts eee 462
LVII. On the Shells known as Gemma, Parastarte, and Psephidia. By A. J. JuKES-BROWNE, B.A., FBS. 0... cece eee eee a edie 473
LVIII. Rhynchotragus damarensis variant, subsp. nu. By R. E. DRAKH=BROCKMAN, MARC .S., 1 C.P., EZ. «ss +. «aeeeeeeee 481
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Page LIX. Descriptions of Five new Cichlid Fishes from Africa. By
Cee EOULENGHR, PLES ven erssc sa eet erst ce nnens 482
LX. Undescribed Species of Cicadide. By W. L. Distant .... 485
LXI. Four new Species of Apide (Hymenoptera), with Notes on other Species. By Grorrrry MrapE-WALDO, M.A.........-++-. 491
LXII. Diptera from the Falkland Islands, with Descriptions of a new Genus and Two new Species. Ey Ernest KE. AUSTEN ...... 498
Correction of Generic Name, by C. Forster-Cooper, M.A., Univer-
sity Demonstrator in Comparative Morphology, Cambridge... . 504 NUMBER 72. LXIII. Descriptions and Records of Bees—LY. By T. D. A. Cocwmpnns, Wniversity Of Colorado) ic. bei. cece lke ies oe es 505 LXIV. New Anthracotheres and allied Forms from Baluchistan. —Preliminary Notice. By C. Forsrer-Cooprr, M.A., University Demonstrator in Comparative Morphology, Cambridge .......... 514 LXV. Characters of new Genera and Species of Terrestrial Mollusca from Norfolk Island. By H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. ...... 522 LXVJ. Five new Siphonaptera from Asiatic Russia, collected by W. Riickbeil. By the Hon. N. Cuartes Rotuscurip, M.A. WED aR MAVEN aM stare) «- erat: heatasi@ianarere ta eS Riaatdys Meche « oan was 538 LXVII. Notes on the South-American Freshwater Flying-fish, Gastropelecus, and the common Flying-fish, Evocetus. By W.G. ESTER IE NO Pyeaes (taba Me )\i0 7 55,5 <i ataley dns. cinhal gia aberhl'a ici oe lave vara he. «ak 544 LXVIII. Phallostethus dunckeri, a remarkable new Cyprinodont isn tremysouore,” By’ Cy Tarn REGAN, MAS ewes See dee tcle ss 548 LXIX. Description of a new Loricariid Fish of the Genus Pleco- stomus from Rio Janeiro. By C. Tarr Reean, M.A............. 595
LXX. Onsome recently received Rhynchota. By W.L. Distant. 556
LXXI. Descriptions of new Lizards in the Collection of the Britis Nusewoa by G: A. BouLENGER, FURS... 0.066.008 lek. 563
LXXII. Description of a new Cyprinodont Fish from the Sobat een ee Enya ho es OULENG Hiss okt oee viv siviets Statice sose's's o0'e 5 ois 566
LXXIII. New Mammals:from South America. By OLpFreLp THOMAS 567
LXXIV. Descriptions of some new Forms of Antelope, with Notes. By the Hon. Waiter Roruscui.p, F.R.S., Ph.D. ...... 574
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Page LXXV. A Synopsis of the Genus Tizamus. By Lorp Bra- BOURNE, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., and Coares Cuuss, F.Z.S., M.B.0.U. 577
LXXVI. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Noctuide.
By Sir Grorer F.HaAmeson, Bart. F.ZS. .......00 cbeeecceon 580 Proceedings of the Geological Society ............cceeeees 601, 602 Index” <a oawcenee Boaters itis ite,2t) abla lahelm syathie| oie telie ol singe nys aiaiiensunieat ea 603
PLATES IN VOL. XIL
PuaTE I, Clementia obliqua and C. vatheleti. II. New species of Pheidoliphila, Chlamydopsis, and
Aristomorphus. III. New species of Mollusca. IV. Vibilia serrata. WV:
VI. Vibilia hodgsoni. VII. Hemiscelus diplochelatus, VIII. New species of Cylistix, Onthophilus, and Niponius. IX. New species of Engina, Tritonidea, and Calliostoma.
Thersitina gasterostei.
; Siphonaptera from Asiatic Russia.
XVI. Gastropelecus stellatus.
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I. — Descriptions of new Species of Pyralide of the Sub- family Pyraustine. By Sir Grorce F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z:8., &e.
[Continued from vol, xi. p. 580. ]
(4) Eeeristis argyresthalis, sp. n.
&. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing brownish white, the costal edge golden brown to beyond middle ; a slight subbasal silvery line ; an indistinct yellowish antemedial band, edged by waved silvery lines; a round yellowish spot in middle of cell defined by silver, and a similar discoidal spot constricted at middle ; a postmedial yellowish and silvery band defined on each side by fine brown lines, slightly incurved below costa and oblique below vein 4, with some small brown and silvery somewhat dentate marks beyond it towards apex ; a fine dark terminal line with two points at middle; cilia whitish, with a fine brown line through them. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown towards termen ; cilia white.
Hab. N, Avstraura, Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 ¢ type, Exp. 16 mm.
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(5) Criophthona aridalis, sp. n.
9. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; palpi rufous, white below ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with dark brown and tinged with rufous towards costa, the costal edge white; a faint dark discoidal spot ; postmedial line dark, rather diffused, ex- curved from costa to vein 8, then retracted to below angle of cell; cilia white, with dark lines near base and at tips. Hind wing white; the underside with the costal area irro- rated with brown, a slight dark spot at upper angle of cell and punctiform postmedial line from costa to vein 3.
Hab. Carx Corony, Zuurberg (Bairstow),1 2 type. Exp. 20 mm.
(7a) Metasia arida, sp. 0.
Frons slightly produced,
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged with brown; an indistinct eurved antemedial brown line; postmedial line brown, slightly sinuous towards costa, excurved from discal fold to below vein 3, then bent inwards to below angle of cell, and slightly sinuous to inner margin; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing grey-white tinged with brown ; post- medial line slight, brown, excurved from discal fold to below vein 8, then obsolete; a terminal series of dark points.
Hab. Sierra Leone (Clements),1 9; N. Nicrria, Borgu, Yelwa Lake (Migeod), 1 2 type. Hap. 14 mm.
(7 6) Metasia eremialis, sp. n.
Frons produced to a long process rounded at extremity.
&. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with some brown; palpi and frontal process at sides dark brown. Fore wing white sparsely irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with red-brown ; an indistinct obliquely curved antemedial brown line ; a brown annulus in middle of cell and elliptical discoidal annulus ; postmedial line brown, straight from costa to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and again excurved ; a fine brown terminal line and a line through the cilia. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown; postmedial line slight, brown, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and excurved to inner margin; a fine brown terminal line and a line near tips of cilia.
Species of Pyralidee. 3
Hab. Transvaau, Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 g type. Exp. 22 mm.
(7c) Metasia perirrorata, sp. n.
Frons produced to a moderate rounded process.
6. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish suffused with brown; sides of palpi and frons blackish; fore tibiz at extremity and tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown; a dark spot at base of costa; a dark antemedial line from cell to inner margin; two blackish discoidal striz, and a patch of dark suffusion beyond lower angle of cell; postmedial line diffused, dark brown, excurved to near termen between veins 5 and 2 with some dark suffusion on its outer side below costa ; cilia with a series of small dark spots. Hind wing grey, thickly irrorated and suffused with brown.
Hab. N. Nigeria, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso (Carter), 1 3 type. Hap. 14mm.
(10 c) Metasia tumidalis, sp. n.
Abdomen of male dilated at extremity with large pro- trusible genital tufts,
Ochreous tinged with pale red-brown; head and front of thorax suffused with fuscous; fore tibise: banded with black ; abdomen with dorsal black spots on last two segments. Fore wing with the costal area suffused with fuscous to beyond middle ; an antemedial black line very oblique from costa to below median nervure and angled inwards on vein 1; a small annulus in middle of cell aud discoidal lunulate annulus ; the postmedial line angled outwards below costa, inwards in discal fold, at vein 2 retracted to below end of cell, then somewhat excurved again; the terminal area suffused with fuscous; cilia ochreous with a black line through them and their tips fuscous. Hind wing with minutely waved black line from discocellulars to inner margin above tornus ; the postmedial line angled outwards at vein 5 and ending on termen_at vein 2; the apical area suffused with fuscous down to vein 2; a wayed black ter- minal line and a line through the cilia,
Hab. N. Gurnea, Milne B., 2 3 type, Mailu; Fereusson ee 1 ¢; Ron 1; Gooprnovcn I.; Wooptark; QUEENSLAND, Cedar B. (Meek),1 9. Exp. 22 mm,
(12a) Metasia sinuifera, sp. n, Frons produced to a moderate rounded process,
¢. Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with fuscous ; 1#
4 Sir G. F. Hampson on new
palpi and frons black ; antennz ringed with blackish; fore and mid legs blackish above, the tarsi ringed with blackish ; abdomen grey-white tinged with brown. Fore wing grey- white thickly irrorated with fuscous ; some blackish at base of costa; antemedial line blackish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; a small oblique elliptical blackish discoidal annulus ; postmedial line black, incurved at discal fold, obliquely excurved to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell, and erect to inner margin ; a fine black ter- minal line and lines near base and tips of cilia. Hind wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a rather diffused oblique black antemedial line; postmedial line black, obliquely excurved from discal fold to vein 2 where it is retracted, then obsolete ; a fine black terminal line and lines near base and tips of cilia.
Hab. TransvaaL, White R. (Cooke), 2 g type. Ezxp. 20 mm.
_ (16a) Metasia punctimarginalis, sp. u.
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish irrorated with brown; palpi blackish, white below; fore tibiz and tarsi tinged with fuscous. Fore wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, the basal half of costa fuscous, the terminal half with black striz ; an indistinct slightly waved antemedial line ; a fuscous spot in middle of cell and another rather further from base in submedian fold ; an oblique white discoidal lunule defined at sides by black ; postmedial line excurved below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and again slightly excurved; a brown terminal line with series of black points on it; cilia brownish white with fuseous line near base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous; a black discoidal spot ; postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 2, then re- tracted to below angle of cell; a brownish terminal line with series of black points on it ; cilia brownish white with fuscous line near base. ;
Hab, Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 g type. Eup. 14 mm.
(246) Metasia bilunalis, sp, n.
&. Head, tegule, and patagia ochreous; palpi at sides and vertex of thorax dark brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous slightly tinged with reddish
Species of Pyralide. 5
brown in parts ; an oblique blackish suhbasal bar from sub- median fold to inner margin; a brown lunule defined by black in cell towards extremity confluent with a fascia below the cell angled inwards to near the subbasal bar ; an ochreous discoidal lunule defined by black except above, with two short obliquely placed black streaks below it ; a diffused brownish subterminal band, oblique towards costa, then with slight dentate black marks on it to above inner margin ; a terminal series of small dentate black marks; cilia with a fine dark line near base. Hind wing uniform ochreous white ; cilia whitish with a slight brown “line near base.
Palpi projecting about three times length of head ; fore wing very long and narrow.
Hab. Vicroria, 1 g type. Exp. 22 mm,
Genus GONOPIONEA, noy. Type, G. albilunalis.
Palpi porrect, projecting about the length of head, tri- angularly scaled, the third joint hidden in hair; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; antennz laminate in both sexes, strongly so in male; hind tibize with the outer medial spur about half length of inner. Fore wing with the termen strongly excurved at middle, excised below apex and towards tornus ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4,5 stalked; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle, straight and well separated from 8, 9; 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 strongly anastomosing with 8.
(1) Gonopionea sanguiflualis, sp. n.
6. Head white ; palpi except below and antennz chestnut ; thorax pale crimson; abdomen chestnut ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing pale crimson ; the costa brown to beyond middle ; a slightly sinuous deep crimson antemedial line; a quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell, with some dark suffusion between it and the rounded hyaline spot beyond the cell which is bounded by the dark postmedial line, obliquely sinuous from it to inner margin ; a terminal brown line; the cilia yellow, brown at middle. Hind wing yellowish white ; the termen brown from apex to vein 2, towards which it expands into a patch.
Hab. Jamaica, Moneague (Walsingham), 1 3 type, New- castle. Hap. 12 mm,
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(2) Gonopionea purpurealis, sp. n.
d. Head and thorax purplish pink; palpi whitish at base ; antenne with the shaft whitish above; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiz and tarsi tinged with pink on inner side; abdomen purplish pink, the ventral surface white. Fore wing purphsh pink ; an oblique triangular yellow patch from middle of costa to just beyond the cell with whitish lunule on its lower part, the costa beyond it brown, yellow before apex ; cilia yellow, dark brown at apex and middle. Hind wing white; the termen suffused with purplish pink, running inwards at vein 2 half way to cell; cilia white.
Hab, W. Cotomsia, 8. Antonio (Palmer), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 22 mm.
(3) Gonopionea albilunalis, sp. n.
Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown; frons whitish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white ; fore tarsi with the termimal joint black. Fore wing pale reddish brown with a purple gloss; a waved black ante- medial line from cell to inner margin; a white diseoidal Junule, defined by black except above where it is conjoimed to a whitish patch on costa, an oblique waved black line from its lower extremity to inner margin strongly angled inwards on vein 2; cilia white except at middle. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area broadly suffused with brown from costa to vem 2 with fuscous postmedial bar on its inner edge between veins 6 and 5; underside white with fuscous discoidal point and postmedial bar.
Hab. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni (Schaus), 1 ¢% type, type g in Coll. Schaus. Hap., g 22, 2 26mm.
(1 a) Pionea pectinalis, sp. n.
Antenne of male bipectinate with rather long branches ; mid tibize not dilated ; hind tibize with the inner medial spur minute.
go. Head and thorax cupreous yellow suffused with brown; pectus with three pairs of lateral brown spats; abdomen yellowish white with dorsal series of brown patches and lateral and ventral spots on basal segments. Fore wing cupreous yellow irrorated with brown, the base of costal area suffused with brown ; an eblique diffused waved sub- ~ basal line from costa to vein 1 ; a diffused waved antemedial line from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; a round white
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spot’ defined by black in upper angle of cell ; an oblique ~ postmedial bar from below costa to vein 9, with a rather triangular whitish spot beyond it followed by a diffused lunulate black-brown patch with spot on costa above it and very oblique dentate line from it to immer margin ; some black points on costa towards apex and a terminal series. Hind wing white slightly tinged with yellowish towards termen on which there is a series of black points from apex to vein 2 where there is a larger spot; the underside with black spots in and beyond upper angle of cell and a post- medial series slightly excurved below costa and strongly below vein 5.
Hab. Cotomsta, Sierra del Libane, 6000! (H. H. Smith), 1 g type. Eap. 28 mm.
(1b) Pionea albiflua, sp. n.
3. Head and tegule purplish red ; frons black-brown ; a whitish streak on vertex of head ; thorax brownish white with black fasciz on shoulders and outer edge of patagia ; pectus whitish and brown ; legs purplish red with whitish streaks, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the ventral surface purplish red. Fore wing with the costal and terminal areas purplish red; the rest of basal area brown with a whitish patch at base of inner margin ; the medial area obliquely whitish except to- wards costa ; an elongate black annulus with brownish centre in middle of cell conjoined to the dark basal area, and a whitish discoidal lunule open below; postmedial line blackish, arising below costa, incurved and with black patch beyond it to vein 4 where it is angled outwards, then again incurved ; the terminal area tinged with brown to- wards apex ; aseries of small black spots on costa towards apex and on termen which is whitish. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown except towards tornus ; a series of small black spots on termen from apex to vein 2 ; cilia whitish ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with purplish red, black lunules before and beyond the discocellulars, a curved post- medial series of small black spots.
Hab. W. Cotompia, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 3 type. Exp. 30 mm. .
(le) Pionea distictalis, sp. 0.
Antenne of male bipectinate with short branches ; mid tibie not dilated ; hind tibiz with the spurs well developed.
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3. Wead and thorax brown with a cupreous gloss ; palpi at base, pectus,.and legs whitish, the fore tibiz fuscous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing brown with a cupreous gloss; a rather diffused and slightly sinuous dark antemedial line from cell to inner margin; a rounded ochreous-white spot in upper angle of cell; an oblique sinuous rather diffused dark postmedial line from vein 3 to inner margin ; a conical ochreous-white postmedial patch from costa to vein 5, somewhat constricted at middle and defined by fuscous ; cilia pale brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially on apical part of termen; the underside with slight dark point at upper angle of cell, a slight postmedial line from costa to vein 5, where there is a dark spot and another at middle of submedian fold.
Hab. Coromsia, Sierra del Libane, 6000! (H. H. Smith), 1g type. Hap.25 mm,
(le) Pionea albiluna, sp. n.
Antenne of male with the shaft laminate and with ridges of scales above.
6. Head and thorax reddish brown; palpi black, white below at base; pectus and legs creamy white, the fore tibiz with blackish band at extremity ; abdomen whitish, dorsally sufiused with brown. Fore wing dull brown; an indistinct dark antemedial line, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique white discoidal lunule defined by blackish except above, where it is confluent with a yellow spot on costa; an indistinct dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin, bent inwards to submedian fold, then slightly excurved. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown; the underside with the costal area suffused with brown, a black discoidal spot, a slight brown postmedial line, angled inwards and with brown spot on it at discal fold, then oblique to submedian fold where it terminates.
Hab. W. Cotompra, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 ¢ type. Exp, 22 mm.
(1f) Pionea dichorda, sp. n.
¢. Head and thorax whitish suffused with rufous ; palpi rufous, the third joint with black ring at base; sides of frons blackish ; fore tibiz blackish above; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous, the costal area suffused with purplish red ; a small blackish spot in cell before the strong black antemedial line which is
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bent inwards to costa; a blackish discoidal bar; a strong oblique black postmedial line; the costa towards apex and termen with series of small black spots. Hind wing white faintly tinged with rufous ; a terminal series of small black spots from apex to vein 2; the underside with small black spots in middle of cell and on disecocellulars, an oblique maculate postmedial line from costa to submedian fold.
Hab. W. Cotompia, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 16 mm.
(2a) Pionea nephelistalis, sp. n.
9. Head and thorax yellow tinged with brown ; pectus and legs whitish; abdomen yellow dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the medial area suffused with brown except towards costa; an inwardly oblique diffused black antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell and slight discoidal lunule ; postmedial line formed of small wedge-shaped black marks not extending to costa, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique, with a diffused dark maculate band beyond it from below costa to vein 3 and a patch above inner margin. Hind wing pale yellow suffused with brown to beyond postmedial line except on costal area which is whitish, the postmedial line indistinct, pale, curved, defined on inner side by deeper brown and witha diffused band beyond it ; the underside pale yellowish with diffused curved brown postmedial line.
Hab. C. Cutna, Ichang ((rs. Prati), 1 9 type. Exp. 26 mm.
(10 a) Pionea fovifera, sp. n.
Fore wing of male with large fovea below base of cell on upperside; hind wing with the costa strongly lobed at base.
¢. Head and thorax white suffused with reddish brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Fore wing white suffused with reddish brown ; a slight dentate excurved blackish antemedial line from below costa to beyond the fovea ; a slight blackish discoidal lunule; postmedial line very indistinct, blackish, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown.
Hab. Cua, Sautiago (Schaus), 1 g type. Exp. 14 mm.
(34a) Pionea nomophilodes, sp. n. Palpi about three times length of head,
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Head and thorax pale red-brown; palpi white below ; legs pale red-brown $ pectus and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing white tinged with pale red-brown, especially on costal area; a minute black point in middle of cell and dis- coidal point just above lower angle of cell ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing white faintly tinged with red-brown; a terminal series of minute black points.
Hab. Cuit1, Mulchen (Hiwes), 1 3, 1 2 type. Lap. 22 mm.
(34c) Pionea melanephra, sp. n.
9. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous; palpi black below ; antennze brownish; fore tibie with black band at extremity, the tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated with a few blackish scales; an indistinct sinuous dark antemedial line; a faint brown annulus in middle of cell and prominent black discoidal lunule with slight brown striga in centre, a black point above it on costa ; postmedial line with black spot at costa, then slight and with series of black points on it, inmcurved and with small black spot at discal fold, below vein 4 bent inwards to below end of cell, then again excurved ; the terminal area, suffused with rufous; a series of black points on costa to- wards apex and on termen. Hind wing creamy white, the terminal area tinged with rufous from costa to vein 2; a small black spot at upper angle of cell and point at lower angle ; a terminal series of points from apex to vein 2; the underside with postmedial series of small black spots excurved between veins 4 and 2.
Hab. W. Cotomsia, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 24 mm.
(35 6) Pionea chalcitahs, sp. n.
@. Head and thorax cupreous yellow almost entirely suffused with black; palpi whitish at base; legs yellow marked with black ; abdomen whitish tinged with cupreous and dorsally suffused with black forming diffused bands except at base. Fore wing cupreous yellow suffused with black except at base of inner margin, on medial costal area, and terminal area; a triangular yellow antemedial patch from costa with indistinct diffused black line from it to inner margin; a small round white spot defined by black in upper angle of cell connected with the yellow costal area ; a triangular postmedial yellow patch from costa with three white points below it, a diffused black patch beyond them
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and a diffused incurved dark line from them to inter margin with yellow marks on inner side above and below vein 2 ; some small black spots on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of black points: Hind wing white, the inner area tinged with brown; the terminal area slightly tinged with brown from apex to vein 2; a terminal series of black points ; cilia yellow; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area tinged with brown, black spots m and beyond end of cell, and a maculate curved postmedial line.
Hab. Cotomsta, Sierra del Libane, 6000' (H. H. Smith), 1 $ type. Eaxp. 24 mm.
(35 c) Pionea obvialis, sp. n.
6. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some ochreous; palpi at base, pectus, and legs more ochreous ; abdomen red-brown with dorsal blackish bands more prominent on the two basal segments, the ventral surface ochreous suffused with red-brown and with sublateral series of small black spots. Fore wing red-brown slightly mixed with ochreous ; a strong oblique black antemedial lime from cell to inner margin and a strong black postmedial line very oblique below vein 4, the area between them yellowish on inner half; a small hyaline spot in upper part of end of cell defined by black, and a similar spot above vein 6 before the postmedial line, with a black line from it to vein 5; the termen and base of cilia narrowly yellowish with a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with brown except towards tornus ; the underside with the costal area suffused with red-brown, small black spots in and beyond upper angle of cell and a slight postmedial line somewhat excurved at vein 5 and with small blackish spot at discal fold.
Hab. Purv, Cerro del Pasco, Huancabamba, 1 ¢ type. Exp. 20 mm.
(86a) Pionea enealis, sp. n.
¢. Head and thorax brassy yellow suffused with fuscous brown; palpi black, white below; pectus and legs whitish marked with fuscous ; abdomen white with dorsal series of blackish bands and ventral series of small black spots. Fore wing brassy yellow irrorated with brown; a black ante- medial line curved inwards to costa with an oblique whitish bar on its outer edge in cell ; a white discoidal bar defined by black at sides and constricted at middle; a black post- medial line with whitish band on inner side from costa to
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vein 5, defined on inner side by a fine black line except at costa, the postmedial line strong, diffused and obliquely in- curved below vein 5 ; a terminal series of prominent black points. Hind wing white with terminal series of small black spots ; the underside with the costal and apical part of terminal area tinged with brown, black spots in and beyond end of cell, a curved postmedial series of small black spots.
baa: Cotomsta, Sierra del Libane, 6000’ (H. H. Smith), 1 gtype. Hap. 24 mm.
(37 a) Pionea luniferalis, sp. n.
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown with an neous gloss; palpi at base, pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the fore tibie banded with brown. Fore wing brown with an zeneous gloss ; an indistinct, oblique, rather diffused, fuscous antemedial line; a rather lunulate postmedial yellow patch from costa to vein 5 with the indistinct diffused postmedial line on its outer edge, strongly incurved below vein 5; apical part of costa yellowish with slight brown spots ; apical half of cilia yellow with small brown spots at base. Hind wing pale brown with an eneous gloss; cilia yellow with a brown line at base; the underside white tinged with brown especially on terminal area, a slight spot at upper augle of cell and curved postmedial line.
Hab. Braz, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 ¢ type. Eup. 24 mm.
(38 a) Pionea ochropera, sp. n.
g. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with dark brown; pectus whitish ; fore tibize with black band near extremity ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with dark brown leaving white segmental lines. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with dark brown and suffused with purplish fuscous except on costal area and inner margin, the apical area ochreous, with a dark streak below vein 8 ; antemedial line blackish, angled outwards below costa and bent outwards to inner margin; a black annulus in middle of cell and narrow elliptical discoidal annulus defined by black ; postmedial line blackish slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, obliquely downcurved to vein 6, excurved and slightly waved to vein 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell and again excurved; some small black spots on costa towards apex; a blackish terminal line with ochreous points at the veins. Hind wing semihyaline white; black
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points at angles of cell; the apical area and termen to vein 2 suffused with brown; the termen with blackish points to submedian fold; cilia white with a dark line near base ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with blackish, small black spots in end of cell and on discocellulars and a point at lower angle, three postmedial black points from costa to discal fold, then traces of a curved punctiform lie to submedian fold where there is a black point, a ter- minal series of black points.
Hab. Cotomsia, Sierra del Labano (H. A. Smith), 1 3 type. Exp. 26 mm.
(386) Pionea nigribasalis, sp. n.
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown strongly suffused with black ; antenne ringed black and white; pectus and legs paler, the tibiz-and tarsi banded with black. Fore wing greyish, the basal area strongly suffused with black, the rest of wing with red-brown; the basal area bounded by a slight pale somewhat incurved antemedial line strongly defined by black on outer side ; a pale discoidal spot defined by brown, rounded above and acuminate below with a semi- circular black mark above it on costa; postmedial line black, dilated into a spot on costa, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and waved, at vein 3 retracted to below angle of cell, then again excurved, some deep brown suffusion beyond it on costal area and from middle to inner margin; a sub- terminal black spot above middle ; some black points on costa towards apex and a terminal series with blackish spot at apex ; cilia black with greyish tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown, the apical part of terminal area darker ; an indistinct curved postmedial line ; cilia brown at base, greyish at tips ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a slight black streak in cell near base and discoidal spot, a sinuous postmedial line defined by a whitish band on outer side, the terminal area fuscous.
Hab. Br. E. Arnica, Kikuyu, Roromo (Crawshay), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 18 mm.
(38 6) Pionea muscosalis, sp. n.
Head and thorax sap-green mixed with some whitish and black scales; palpi whitish below and with black spot on second joint; antennz brownish white ringed with black; pectus and legs brownish white, the tarsi ringed with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous brown with slight whitish seg- mental rings. Fore wing sap-green slightly irrorated with
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black, some deep rufous and blackish suffusion below and beyond end of cell, and at base of inner margin; a diffused blackish subbasal line; antemedial line black, oblique, slightly sinuous ; the terminal half of eosta with black striz with pale brown between them; postmedial line white, defined on inner and outer sides by series of black points, slightly excurved below costa and at middle; a terminal white line with series of black points on it and black spot on its inner edge at discal fold; cilia pale brown mixed with fuscous and with whitish tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia greyish with dark line near base; the underside whitish tinged with brown, small black spots at angles of cell, postmedial spots on costa and in discal fold and a terminal series of strize.
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the antemedial line defined by white on inner side except at costa, and with large patch beyond it below the cell.
Hab. Transvaar, Lekkerwater Kloof (Janse), 3 ¢,1 9 type. Exp. 20 mm.
(50 a) Pionea squamosa, sp. ui.
?. Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with pale brown. Fore wing white tinged with pale grey-brown and irrorated with large white black-tipped scales forming obscure bars on and heyond the discocellulars ; an indistinct waved dark antemedial line; small white and dark spots on costa just before and beyond end of cell; postmedial line dark, defined on outer side by white towards costa, minutely dentate, oblique from costa to discal fold, then inwardly oblique; a fine blackish terminal line; cilia with a fine white line near tips. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; a punctiform black terminal line from apex to vein 2; the underside white, the costal area and submedian fold irrorated with brown, a dark postmedial shade from costa to vein 5,
Hab. Care Couony, Deelfontein (Sloggett), 1 2 type, Exp. 16 mm,
(50 6) Pionea epiphenicealis, sp, n.
go. Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi below, pectus, and legs white ; abdomen grey-brown with slight pale segmental lines. Fore wing brown shot with purple and with slight dark irroration; traces of a dark antemedial line slightly angled outwards at median nervure ; an indistinct dark spot in middle of cell and diseoidal lunule; traces of a medial line, oblique towards costa and excurved beyond lower angle
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of cell between vein 5 and submedian fold; postmedial line dark slightly defined by ochreous on outer side, minutely dentate, oblique towards costa, excurved between veins 6 and 3, then somewhat retracted ; a terminal series of black points; cilia ochreous. Hind wing cupreous brown with a slight dark terminal line; cilia yellowish white with a fine dark line near base ; the underside ochreous white with dark discoidal lunule, minutely dentate postmedial line excurved at middle and terminal series of black strive.
Hab, Sierra Leone (Clements), 2 3 type. Exp. 22 mm.
(55 a) Pionea leptidalis, sp. n.
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi dark brown, white at base; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale reddish brown with slight dark irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, fuscous, rather diffused, very oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly incurved; adark discoidal lunule with slight pale spot beyond it ; postmedial line indistinct, ex- curved and slightly waved between veins 6 and 2 where it is retracted to below angle of cell, then bent outwards again ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with brown and with a series of black points from apex to submedian fold; the underside with curved postmedial series of small brown spots from costa to vein 3,
Hab. Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 g type. Hap. 22 mm.
(56a) Pionea diopsalis, sp. n.
Head and thorax pale rufous ; palpi white at base; pectus and legs white slightly tinged with rufous; abdomen white tinged with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing pale rufous, the inner area whitish; irrorated with a few black scales ; antemedial line absent ; orbicular and reniform grey defined by. fuscous, the former round, the latter irregularly quadrate ; the terminal half of costa with series of small dark spots ; postmedial line with series of black points and traces of a minutely dentate line between them, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; a terminal series of prominent black points ; cilia greyish fuscous with fine dark line near base. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with brown ; a fine sinuous postmedial line from costa to vein 3; a terminal series of black points; cilia with a fine dark line near base; the underside irrorated with
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fuscous, a dark spot at upper angle of cell and point at lower angle, a maculate sinuous postmedial line.
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform deep black.
Hab. Cutt, Mulchen (Elwes), 13,292 type. Exp.
24 mm. (58 a) Fionea hematalis, sp. n.
Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow suffused with fiery crimson ; palpi brown, white below ; threat white ; fore tibise brown banded with white, the tarsi white ; mid tibiz below and tarsi white. Fore wing yellow, the costal area, base, streaks on the veins, and diffused lines fiery crimson covering most of wing, the costa tinged with brown; the diffused antemedial line somewhat oblique and sinuous; a small brownish spot in middle of cell and discoidal lunule ; postmedial line minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 5, at vein 2 retracted to lower angle of cell, then some- what oblique to inner margin; a minutely waved, curved subterminal line; termen suffused with red; cilia brown. Hind wing yellow, the veins streaked with fiery red; a diffused streak on vein 1; diffused spots at origin of vein 2 and lower angle of cell; a minutely waved postmedial line oblique from costa, at vein 2 retracted to the spot at lower angle of cell, then oblique to inner margin ; a minutely waved, curved subterminal line; termen suffused with red ; cilia brown; the underside yellow with indistinct reddish postmedial and subterminal lines.
Hab. Br. New Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 3 type, Dinawa, 1 ?, Mafalu, 1 2, Ekeikei, 2 9. Kap. 30 mm.
(62a) Pionea xanthographa, sp. un.
?. Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi and sides of frons rufous, the former white at base; pectus, tibia, and tarsi white; abdomen white slightly tinged with ochreous. Fore wing pale yellow, the costa tinged with rufous to beyond middle; a nearly straight orange antemedial line ; an orange discoidal bar ; postmedial line orange, very slightly excurved from below costa to vein 3, then bent inwards to lower angle of cell and again slightly excurved; a fine dark terminal line; cilia white at tips. Hind wing pale yellow; an oblique orange antemedial line from middle of cell to inner margin; an oblique orange postmedial line from below costa to tornus ; the termen whitish defined on inner side by an orange line; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia orange at base, whitish at tips ; the underside uniformly whitish.
Hab. S. Nicerta, Lagos (Boag), 1 ¢ type. Hap. 22 mm,
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(63 a) *Pionea ignitals, sp. n.
9. Head and thorax deep red-brown ; base of palpi and antenne, sides of frons, and throat pure white ; tarsi white ; abdomen paler brown. Fore wing with the basal and costal areas brown, the rest of wing orange-brown suffused with brilliant purple-crimson ; a curved yellow band just beyond middle from below costa to inner margin, dilated at lower angle of cell, enclosing some crimson spots and edged by red lines; cilia orange. Hind wing orange with the area between submedian fold and vein 5 suffused with crimson, crossed by an oblique yellow postmedial band outwardly edged with red ; the termen black at apex, purple at middle ; the tornus truncate.
Hab. Nicer R., Warri (Roth). Ezp.18 mm. Type in Coll. Rothschild.
(76a) Pionea mesophealis, sp. n.
gd. Head and thorax orange-yellow ; palpi at base, pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish, the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing yellow irrorated with fuscous brown, except inner basal area, the basal costal area and medial area slightly darker ; a rather diffused straight erect antemedial fuscous line ; a slight pale spot at lower angle of cell; a strong fuscous postmedial line, excurved below costa, then curved inwards to below angle of cell and straight to inner margin; a slight diffused dark terminal band; cilia pale yellow. Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly tinged with ochreous ; an indistinct curved dark postmedial line except towards inner margin ; the underside with the costal area suffused with brown.
Hab. Br. BE. Arrica, Kikuyu, Roromo (Crawshay), 1 ¢ type. zp. 30 mm.
(82 a) Pionea ectophealis, sp. un.
@. Pale lemon-yellow ; palpi rufous, white below ; pectus and legs white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with yellow. Fore wing with the costal edge brown ; the termen narrowly brown, the cilia brown at base, white at tips. Hind wing with a terminal line and base of cilia brown from apex to vein 2, the rest of cilia white.
Hab. Ampoina (Doherty), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 22 mm.
(826) Pionea brunneicilalis, sp. n. 3. Fulvous yellow; tibiz and tarsi whitish. Fore wing
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with the costal and terminal areas rather deeper fulvous, the costal edge brown ; a slightly waved antemedial fulvous line, oblique from costa to submedian fold; a slight discoidal lunule; postmedial line minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and rather oblique to inner margin; a fine terminal dark line; cilia brown at base, ochreous white at tips. Hind wing rather paler except terminal area; faint traces of a postmedial line between veins 5 and 2; the termen narrowly brown and the cilia brown at base from apex to vein 2, the rest of cilia ochreous white. Underside with the costal area of fore wing and the hind wing whitish. Hab. Barcuian (Doherty), 1 3 type. Exp. 24 mm.
(90 a) Pionea teinopalpia, sp. n.
Palpi about three times length of head.
do. Head and thorax ochreous yellow; palpi and frons at sides red-brown ; tegule and patagia tinged with rufous on outer edge; pectus and legs white, the fore legs brown in front; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with reddish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous yellow, the costal half of wing suffused with red-brown, the terminal area with rufous, the medial inner area irrorated with brown; traces of a very oblique antemedial brown line from costa to origin of vein 2, then an inwardly oblique series of three small black spots between the cell and vein 1 ; a brownish fascia on extremity of median nervure and vein 4 to the postmedial line, which is represented by a series of blackish points, excurved below costa, then oblique and angled inwards on vein 2; cilia brownish, with a dark line at middle. Hind wing white, with a faint ochreous tinge, especially on apical area ; the termen with minute rufous points from apex to vein 2; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous, a curved brown postmedial line with dark points at the veins from costa to vein 2,
Hab. Peru, Oconeque (Ockenden), 1 g type. Eup. 34 mm,
(905) Pionea melastictalis, sp. n.
¢. Head and thorax pale yellow suffused in parts with red-brown ; palpi red-brown, white at base; pectus and mid and hind legs white; fore legs brown; abdomen pale yellow, dorsally slightly tinged with brown, Fore wing pale yellow, the veins and costal edge streaked with red-brown ;
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antemedial line formed of short dark streaks from subcostal nervure to submedian fold, where it is angled, then oblique to inner margin; a streak in end of cell ; a discoidal lunule conjoined by the almost confluent streaks on bases of veins 5 to 3 with the postmedial line, which is formed of short somewhat dentate black streaks, excurved from costa to vein 5, then very oblique, and ending in a curved brown streak below vein 1 to the antemedial line; a highly dentate brown subterminal line angled inwards at discal and sub- median folds, at former to the postmedial line, the area beyond it brown except at apex; cilia brown, with a yellowish line at base. Hind wing semihyaline white, with curved post- medial series of slight fuscous spots in the interspaces from costa to vein 2, the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark spot in upper angle of cell, the post- medial series more prominent, a terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. Hab. Perv, Huancabamba,1 ¢g type. Lp. 32 mm.
(103 a) Pionea subcostalis, sp. u.
g¢. Head and front of thorax cupreous brown, the hinder part of thorax pale yellow; palpi white at base; antenne with the shaft white above towards tips; pectus and legs white ; abdomen cupreous brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale yellow, with a broad cupreous brown fascia below costa, which is white, and a cupreous brown subter- minal shade; a slight brown antemedial line from cell to inner margin; a brown discoidal spot on the subcostal fascia ; a slight brown postmedial line, excurved between veins 5 and 2. Hind wing pale yellow; a small brown discoidal spot and slight postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 2.
Hab. Perv, Pozuzo,1 g type. Hap. 24 mm.
(104c) Pionea erythrialis, sp. u.
gd. Yellow; head and thorax entirely suffused with deep red-brown; abdomen irrorated with rufous. Fore wing suffused with red-brown at base, on costal area to the post- medial line, and beyond the antemedial line, which is oblique from costa to below the cell and angled inwards on vein | ; a point in middle of cell and discoidal spot; the postmediai line very minutely dentate, curved from costa to vein 3, then inwardly oblique; a diffused subterminal dentate band.
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Hind wing clear yellow, with slight fuscous subterminal line from costa to submedian fold.
9. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing entirely suffused with dull pink.
Hab. Nicerta, Warri (Roth), Dogo (Simpson), 1 3g type, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 9 ; Br. C. Arrica, Fort Johnston (Rendall),1 ¢, Blantyre ; Narat, Durban (Leigh),1 3,19. Exp., 24, 2? 30 mm.
(114a) Pionea poliochroa, sp. 0.
9. Head and thorax white tinged with pale red-brown ; abdomen white. Fore wing white tinged and irrorated with pale red-brown ; antemedial line hardly traceable except as a dark striga on inner area; traces of a quadrate brown spot in middle of cell and a rather more distinct elliptical discoidal spot; postmedial indistinct, dark, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; traces of a dark subterminal shade ; some minute dark points on termen except towards tornus. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown ; a dark point at lower angle of cell; postmedial line slight, dark, minutely waved, excurved between veins 5 and 2; a series of obscure dark streaks in the interspaces of terminal area; some minute black points on apical part of termen.
Hab. Sannwicu Is., Oahu, Waialua (Perkins), 1 9 type. Exp. 20 mm.
(121 a) Pionea piperitalis, sp. n.
@. Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with whitish ; palpi blackish at tips; abdomen white, the ventral surface slightly irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with fuscous, the costal area ochreous to beyond middle; the terminal area suffused and irrorated with fuscous, the apex and termen tinged with ochreous; an indistinct, diffused, curved, ante- medial dark line defined on inner side by a whitish band except towards costa ; a small quadrate white spot in upper angle of cell, with slight black striga on its inner edge and small lunule on outer; a diffused dark postmedial line, oblique and sinuous below vein 4, defined on outer side by a whitish band from vein 4 to inner margin ; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing white, with rather narrow, diffused, brownish terminal band except towards tornus, irrorated with fuscous; a terminal series of blackish points except towards tornus; cilia brownish at base, whitish at tips; the underside with black point at upper angle of cell
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and small diffused blackish postmedial spots at costa, discal fold, and towards inner margin.
Hab. Br. BK. Arrica, Udimu (Betton), 1 3 type. Exp. 26 mm.
(127 a) Pionea phealis, sp. n.
3. Dark reddish brown mixed with fuscous; palpi blackish, white below at base. Fore wing with small ante- medial black spots below cell and on inner margin; a bi- sinuate discoidal black line defined by pale brownish on outer side; a small patch of blackish suffusion beyond lower angle of cell; postmedial line black, slightly excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved to vein 2, then re- tracted to below end of cell and again slightly ecxcurved ; a black terminal line; cilia with a strigiform black line at middle and blackish tips. Hind wing more fuscous brown, with terminal series of faint dark points; cilia paler, with blackish line near base ; the underside with traces of diffused dark postmedial line on costal area.
Hab. Br. EK. Arrica, Kirbehs (Betton), 1 g type. Lap. 20 mm.
(130) Pionea secticostalis, sp. n.
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen cupreous brown; frons white at sides ; palpi at base, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing cupreous brown ; traces of an oblique sinuous antemedial line, with a small white spot beyond it below costa; an indistinct dark discoidal lunule with small white spot in centre; the terminal third of costa with four short white streaks alternating with short black streaks ; an indistinct postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; some slight black points on apical half of costa. Hind wing pale cupreous brown, with traces of a curved postmedial line and fine terminal line ; the under- side grey-brown, with two obliquely placed discoidal points, a highly curved punctiform postmedial line, and terminal series of black points or strie.
Hab. Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 2 type. zp. 18 mm.
(128 a) Pionea monospila, sp. u.
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen cupreous brown mixed with some grey ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish; tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing cupreous
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brown irrorated with a few white scales ; a postmedial white spot on costa. Hind wing cupreous brown. Hab. Braz, Petropolis (Doer), 1 2 type. Eap. 14 mm.
(140 a) Pionea leucozonea, sp. n.
S$. Head and thorax white mixed with bronze-brown ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown, leaving white segmental lines ; pectus and legs white. Fore wing whitish suffused with bronze-brown and irrorated with blackish; a pure white antemedial band narrowing to costa; a quadrate white patch in end of cell confluent with a patch above it on costa, a small semicircular blackish mark before it in middle of cell, and a blackish discoidal lunule with white centre; a white spot on costa beyond the cell ; a white postmedial band, narrowing and sinuous between veins 6 and 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell and forming an oblique white band to inner margin ; a terminal series of small dark spots. Hind wing white tinged with bronze-brown except on costal area to beyond middle ; a dark discoidal point ; a brown postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish, bent out- wards between veins 5 and 2; a terminal series of dark points ; the underside white, a blackish point in middle of cell and small discoidal lunule, the postmedial line with some blackish points on it, the terminal points black.
Hab. Sannwicu Is., Hawaii, Kilauea (Perkins), 1 3 type. Kap. 16 mm,
(8) Paratalanta griseicinctalis, sp. u.
Mid tibia of male without fold and tuft, hind tibia with the inner medial spur minute; fore wing without costal fold ; hind wing with the termen evenly curved.
3. Head and thorax brown mixed with whitish; palpi white below; pectus and legs whitish; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown, leaving the terminal area white; an indistinct brown antemedial line oblique from costa to below the cell; a brown spot in middle of cell and discoidal spot with whitish centre ; an indistinct postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell and erect to inner margin, closely approximated at middle to the indistinct subterminal line, which is rather maculate towards costa. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the disk tinged with cupreous brown, the terminal area whiter; a slight dark discoidal bar; postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5
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and 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and oblique to above inner margin; a subterminal line slightly excurved between veins 5 and 2,
Hab. Bauamas (Bonhote), 2 g type. Exp. 32 mm.
(46) Pyrausta glaucoleuca, sp. n.
Fore coxe of male with tuft of long fuscous scales below, the femora with tuft of long fulvous hair above ; abdomen with ventral fan of scales on penultimate segment.
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the vertex of head whitish; palpi dark brown, white below ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing silky grey-brown ; a faint, dark, minutely waved postmedial line, eied below costa and at middle, retracted below vein 2; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base, blackish at middle and with white tips. Hind wing pure white, with a fine brown terminal line.
Hab. 8.E, Peru, La Oroya (Ockenden), 2 g type. Eup. 26 mm.
(8a) Pyrausta albicostalis, sp. n.
6. Head and thorax yellow; palpi fulvous, white at base; sides of frons with white lines ; shoulders fulvous ; pectus and legs white, the fore femora and tibize and mid femora fulvous ; abdomen white. Fore wing yellow, the costal area fulvous, with the costal edge white, the veins deeper yellow ; traces of a curved yellow antemedial line and of a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique; cilia whitish. Hind wing white, with fine yellowish terminal line.
Hab. Brazit, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 1 3 type. Exp, 28 mm.
(12 a) Pyrausta perflavalis, sp. n.
6. Head and thorax bright yellow ; palpi fulvous, white below; frons with fine lateral white streaks ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiz yellow in front ; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with yellow. Fore wing bright yellow, the costal edge narrowly brown ; an indistinct orange antemedial line, oblique from costa to submedian fold; aslight discoidal bar ; postmedial line indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell; cilia brown, white at tips. Hind wing rather paler yellow except towards termen ; cilia brown from apex to vein 2.
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Hab. Frreusson I. (Meek), 1 3 type; QurENnsianp, Mt. Tambourine, 1 ¢. Exp. 24 mm.
(16 a) Pyrausta atricinctalis, sp. n.
?. Golden yellow; palpi blackish at tips; maxillary palpi black at tips. Fore wing with round black discoidal spot ; a narrow biack terminal band, rather broader and diffused on inner side towards apex; cilia black. Hind wing with narrow black terminal band and the cilia black from apex to vein 2.
Hab. Masuonauanp (Dobbie), 1 2 type. Hap. 26 mm.
(20a) Pyrausta pervulgalis, sp. u.
Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; palpi and sides of frons rufous, the former white at base; fore legs rufous; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged with rufous ; an indistinct oblique sinuous antemedial line; a faint dark spot in middle of cell and discoidal bar; postmedial line in- distinct, dark, excurved and minutely dentate from vein 6 to 3, then retracted to below end of cell and sinuous to inner margin ; a terminal series of slight dark striz. Hind wing ochreous white; an indistinct brownish postmedial lie, excurved and minutely waved between veins 5 and 2, then obsolete ; traces of a somewhat diffused subterminal line from costa to vein 2 and of a fine terminal line.
Hab. Jaran, Satsuma (Leech), 2 3 type, Nagasaki (Leech), 1 9; C. Cuina, Ningpo, 1 ?, Foochow (Leech), 13,12, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 §; W. Cuina, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ¢. zp. 26-30 mm.
(30a) Pyrausta thermicruralis, sp. n.
Bright straw-yellow ; palpi rufous, white below; sides of frons and shoulders tinged with rufous; pectus and legs white, the femora rufous, fore tibiz rufous at extremities, the mid tibiz rufous above. Fore wing with the costal area slightly tinged with rufous; a slightly sinuous antemedial rufous line bent inwards to costa ; a discoidal lunule ; post- medial line arising from below costa, excurved and minutely waved to vein 3, on which is an oblique streak connecting it with lower angle of cell, then bent inwards to below angle of cell and erect to Inner margin ; a rufous terminal line and the cilia rufous. Hind wing with slight oblique postmedial
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line between veins 5 and 2 ; a terminal rufous line and the cilia rufous from apex to vein 2.
- Hab. Paraauay, Sapucay (Fuster), 4 ¢,1 2 type. Hap. 382-36 mm.
(31 a) Pyrausta straminea, sp. un.
Epicorsia butyrosa, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 212 (part.), nec Guen,
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous faintly tinged with rufous ; palpi white at base ; mid tibize white in front. Fore wing ochreous, the costal area faintly tinged with rufous towards base ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique to submedian fold and incurved above inner margin; a slight discoidal striga ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely waved, excurved to vein 2, then retracted to below end of cell and again excurved. Hind wing ochreous ; an indistinct post- medial line, oblique and slightly waved to vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell and oblique to above tornus ; a brownish terminal line,
Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 ¢ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap. 34 mm. .
(816) Pyrausta furvalis, sp. n.
9. Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous red ; palpi white below; fore coxe in front, mid tibiz at sides, and the tarsi white ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen brown. Fore wing fulvous red; an indistinct dark antemedial line, oblique to submedian fold and incurved above inner margin ; a faint dark point in middle of cell and discoidal lunule; postmedial line indistinct, dark, excurved and waved from below costa to vein 3, then retracted to below end of cell; cilia brown. Hind wing orange-red ; a very indistinct curved postmedial line between veins 5 and 2; cilia brownish.
Hab. W.Coxtomsia, Jiminez, 1 2 type. Lzp. 32 mm.
(32 a) Pyrausta holowuthalis, sp. un.
3S. Deep straw-yellow ; head and tegule tinged with orange; palpi fulvous, white below; tibiz and tarsi whitish. Fore wing with the costal area tinged with orange towards base. Hind wing with the cilia whitish. Underside of fore wing with the costal area tinged with fuscous, traces of a pale curved postmedial line ; hind wing faintly tinged with fuscous, traces of a pale postmedial band.
Hab. C. Cuina, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 g type. xp.
30 mm.
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(34 a) Pyrausta hemaproctis, sp. u.
go. Head and tegule pale brown; thorax grey; palpi dark brown above, white below; pectus white; legs white tinged with brown, the fore tibiz with brown band at extre- mity ; abdomen pale brown, the anal tuft crimson, the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale grey-brown, the lower part of cell and the area below it to submedian fold white ; a minute dark discoidal lunule; postmedial line indistinct, dark, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base and whitish tips. Hind wing pale grey-brown, the basal and inner areas whitish; traces of a dark postmedial line from costa to vein 4; cilia with a fine white line at base and whitish tips ; the underside whitish, with the postmedial line more distinct.
Hab. 8.E. Perv, La Oroya (Ockenden),1 g type. Hep. 28 mm.
(35 a) Pyrausta melanocera, sp. n.
Fore wing with slight subbasal fovea in cell.
6. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous yellow ; antennz black except basal joint. Fore wing ochreous yellow, the costal edge brownish. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow.
Hab. N. Nigeria, Minna (Macfie), 1 g type. Exp. 20 mm.
(37 a) Pyrausta metaleuca, sp. un.
do. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; legs streaked whitish and brown; abdomen with the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale reddish brown ; traces of a curved dark antemedial line; a slight dark spot in upper part of cell towards extremity and discoidal lunule; traces of a dark postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the costa and termen with a faint brownish tinge ; a terminal series of black striz from apex to vein 1; the underside white faintly tinged with brown, a dark discoidal point, a postmedial punctiform line slightly excurved below discal fold, a terminal series of black points.
Hab. Germ. E. Arrica, Kiliman’jaro ({yéstedt), 1 3 type. Exp. 30 mm.
(43 a) Pyrausta achroalis, sp. nu.
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi and frons rufous; fore tibiz with brown band at extremity. Fore wing white faintly tinged
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with rufous ; traces of an oblique dark antemedial line ; a black point in upper part of middle of cell and a discoidal bar ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, excuryed from vein 6 to 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell; the termen rufous, with a series of dark points onit. Hind wing white faintly tinged with rufous; an oblique black discoidal bar ; traces of a dark postmedial line excurved from vein 6 to 2, then bent inwards to near lower angle of cell and obliquely excurved to inner margin ; a fine rufous terminal line.
Hab. Jamaica, Runaway Bay (Walsingham), 1 9? type; Cusa, Santiago (Schaus),1 9. Hap. 22 mm.
(61a) Pyrausta phenizonalis, sp. nu.
Head and thorax ochreous yellow; palpi rufous, white below ; throat white ; fore tibiz white, tinged with fuscous at extremity; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous yellow, the base and costal area to beyond middle tinged with rufous ; an antemedial brown line, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved ; a small spot in middle of cell; alunulate discoidal spot with yellow lunule in middle ; a brown lunule beyond the cell with the postmedial line arising from it, faint and excurved to vein 2, then retracted to median nervure, strong and slightly incurved from near origin of vein 2 to inner margin ; a broad purplish-grey terminal band with dark brown inner edge, angled outwards below costa and inwards in discal fold, then excurved to vein 2, where it expands inwards to the angle of postmedial line ; cilia pale yellow. Hind wing ochreous yellow; a small black discoidal spot ; a brown postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below angle of cell, and slightly excurved to inner margin ; a broad purplish- grey terminal band with dark brown inner edge, angled inwards at discal fold, then minutely waved, and expanding inwards at vein 2; cilia pale yellow.
Hab. Javan, Hakodaté (Leech), 1 $,1 9 type. zp. 26 mm.
(73a) Pyrausta rufitincta, sp. n. 3S. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; palpi rufous, white at base ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiz with rufous band at extremity ; abdomen white dorsally faintly tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous; a slight rufous discoidal lunule; postmedial line rufous, minutely waved, excurved from below costa to vein 2,
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then bent inwards ; a punctiform rufous terminal line; cilia with a rufous line at middle and white tips. Hind wing ochreous white.
Hab, Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1 3 type. LEzp. 24 mm.
(75 a) Pyrausta arenicola, sp. un.
Head and thorax ochreous, the frons whitish ; palpi white at base ; pectus and legs white, the tibiz and tarsi tinged with ochreous, the tarsi with brownish bands ; abdomen white tinged withochreous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with fulvous ; a brownish antemedial line, somewhat oblique from costa to median nervure; a faint dark discoidal lunule; postmedial line brown, excurved from costa to vein 2, then bent inwards to near origin of vein 2, where there is a dark point, then again bent outwards and with a dark point above inner margin ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wimg pale ochreous tinged with fulvous towards termen ; cilia whitish at tips.
Hab. Auceria, Biskra (Walsingham), 3 8 type. Exp. 18 mm.
(92a) Pyrausta brachypteralis, sp. n.
&. Head and thorax rufous; palpi below and throat white ; mid and hind tibie and tarsi white, the fore tibiz white, with rufous band near extremity ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; a postmedial series of fuscous points excurved between veius 6 and 4, then very oblique; a fine terminal rufous line; cilia rufous at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing short and rounded, yellowish tinged with rufous, the termen and base of cilia deeper rufous from apex to vein 2.
Hab. Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 g type. ap. 26 mm.
(92b) Pyrausta sabulosa, sp. n.
o. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi white at base ; antenne with long cilia, the shaft with dark rings. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with rather large brown scales ; a slight dark discoidal bar; postmedial line indistinct, dark, ex- curved between veins 5 and 2, then bent inwards to near origin of vein 2 and again slightly excurved ; a series of black points just before termen; cilia with a brown line near base. Hind wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated with brown ; an indistinct dark postmedial line excurved between
3 veius 5 and 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and
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oblique to inner margin; a terminal series of dark striz ; the underside paler, a “dark discoidal point, the postmedial line distinct, a terminal series of black poiuts from apex to submedian fold.
Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (Schaus), 1 3 type. Hap. 26 mm.
(95a) Pyrausta costimacula, sp. un.
d. Head blackish, the palpi at base and sides of frons white; thorax rufous, the dorsum and dorsal edge of tegulee blackish ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous, the fore tibiz rufous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdo- men fuscous brown, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous; a small black spot at base of costa; an antemedial black spot in cell and double points at vein 1 and above inner margin ; asmall black discoidal lunule ; postmedial line blackish, with promi- nent black spot at costa, excurved to vein 4 towards termen, then oblique; cilia brown, white towards tornus. Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous brown ; slight blackish marks on termen “at veins 7, 6.
Hab. N.E. Perv, Huancabamba, | a ty pe, El Porvenir, 1¢. Ezp. 32 mm.
(97 a) Pyrausta rubrifusa, sp. n.
Q. Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red ; palpi at base, pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with blood-red ; a faint dark antemedial line, oblique to vein 1; a blood-red spot in middle of cell and ee bar ; ; postmedial line faint, dark, excurved to vein 2, then bent upwards to lower angle of cell and slightly excurved below submedian fold ; a faint curved subterminal shade. Hind wing ochreous yellow, with a faint dark sub- terminal line.
Hab, Jamaica (Kaye), 2 9 type. Exp. 28 mm.
(103 a) Pyrausta gazalis, sp. n.
Q. Pale straw-yellow ; palpi black at tips; fore tibiz banded with black at extremities. Fore wing with the basal half of costal area suffused with fuscous ; a strong, erect, straight antemedial line; a discoidal lunule conjoined to the dark “costal area ; ; postmedial line strong, straight from costa to vein 5, excurved to vein 2, then straight to inner margin ; a fine black terminal line ; ‘cilia fuscous, with a black line
.
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near base. Hind wing with fuscous discoidal point ; post- medial line strong, bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and oblique to inner margin near tornus ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia with a blackish line near base. the tips tinged with fuscous except towards tornus,
Hab. Gazatanp, Chirinda Forest (Marshall), 1 2 type. Exp. 30 mm.
(107 6) Pyrausta pheopastalis, sp. n.
2. Head yellow ; palpirufous, white at base ; thorax pale yellow-brown; pectus and legs whitish; abdomen pale fuscous brown, with slight whitish segmental rings, the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing pale yellowish thickly suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, leaving the costa towards apex and termen yellower ; a faint dark spot in end of cell and discoidal lunule; traces of a dark diffused postmedial line, more distinct towards costa, oblique from costa to vein 4, then inwardly oblique; a terminal series of slight dark striz; cilia yellow. Hind wing greyish ochreous suffused with fuscous brown; a slight dark terminal line; cilia yellow; the underside paler, with traces of a curved post- medial line.
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Nairobi (Crawshay),1 2 type. Exp. 26 mm,
(126a) Pyrausta albogrisea, sp. n.
@. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with dark brown, the pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with grey-white ; traces of a dark antemedial line defined on outer side by whitish ; a dark point in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, excurved from below costa to. vein 3, then incurved and with yellowish spot at submedian fold ; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown; a slight curved postmedial line; a blackish terminal line, expanding into small spots at the veins ; cilia dark at tips; the underside with small black discoidal lunule.
Hab. W. Coxtomsra, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 2 type. Eup. 24 mm,
(142 a) Pyrausta sanguifusalis, sp. n.
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen deep ochreous yellow, the head and thorax suffused with blood-red ; sides of frons with
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white streaks ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing ochreous yellow, the costal area broadly suffused with dull blood-red to beyond middle ; broad, almost confluent, diffused, red basal antemedial and postmedial bands, the two latter confluent below the cell; a broad terminal red band with diffused inner edge almost confluent with the postmedial band; cilia yellow. Hind wing white tinged with yellow.
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Tana R. (Crawshay), 1 3 type. Ezp. 16 mm,
(144.a) Pyrausta hematidalis, sp. 0.
3. Deep ochreous yellow ; head and thorax partly suffused with blood-red ; palpi fulvous, whitish below. Fore wing with the costal area deep blood-red to the postmedial line ; three subbasal red spots, almost forming a maculate band; grey spots edged with blood-red at middle of cell and on discocellulars; a V-shaped medial grey band edged with blood- red, the inner arm arising from a spot at middle of cell, the outer arm from beyond the discoidal spot, the two confluent below the cell and expanding in submedian fold, the post- medial line forming the outer edge of this band and continued to the costal fascia as an obsolescent red line slightly bent outwards below costa ; a subterminal grey band defined by waved red lines, its inner edge angled inwards below the costa and at discal and submedian folds ; a narrow red terminal band with points on its inner edge; cilia yellowish white, with brown medial line. Hind wing with indistinct diffused brownish patches at lower angle of cell and on inner area; a brown terminal band with diffused inner edge, leaving some yellow on termen; cilia yellow, with brownish tips; the underside with the costal area broadly suffused with brown to beyond middle and conjoined to the patch at lower angle of cell.
9. Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous brown, leaving the costal area yellowish to beyond middle.
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Machakos (Crawshay), 1 3 type, Stoney R. (Crawshay),1 9. Exp. 16 mm.
(1446) Pyrausta hematidea, sp. n.
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish red mixed with yellowish ; palpi white at base; pectus and legs whitish, the fore tibize banded white and brown; abdomen with white patch on anal tuft above, the ventral surface white. Fore
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wing purplish red suffused with leaden grey, the costa and termen yellow ; a curved yellow antemedial band defined at sides by red; a blackish discoidal lunule; a yellow post- medial band defined at sides by red, incurved at discal fold, at vein 8 bent upwards to lower angle of cell, then again excurved ; cilia yellow slightly tinged with red. Hind wing purplish red suffused with leaden grey, the costal area yellowish to beyond middle; a postmedial yellow band defined at sides by red, oblique to vein 2, where it is almost confluent with a terminal spot in submedian fold, then re- tracted to below angle of cell, and forming a wedge-shaped patch on inner area; cilia yellow slightly tinged with red,
Hab. Germ. E. Arrica, Ruaha :: "(Neave), 2 3 type. Eexp. 14 mm.
(145 a) Pyrausta flavidiscata, sp. n.
Syllythria panopealis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het, ii. p. 207 (part.), nec W1k.
6. Head and thorax yellow mixed with rufous ; pectus and legs white tinged with ochreous ; abdomen yellow tinged with brown and with some red near extremity, the ventral surface white. Fore wing yellow, the costal area rufous, the antemedial and postmedial areas suffused with brown, leaving a triangular yellow patch on medial area from sub- costal nervure to vein 1, the terminal area tinged with rufous; antemedial line dark, bent outwards below costa, then oblique; a dark discoidal striga ; postmedial line dark, oblique towards costa, then obliquely incurved, excurved between veins 5 and 3, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and erect to inner margin; an indistinct, diffused, sinuous subterminal shade. Hind wing yellow; an obliquely curved dark postmedial line from discal fold to tornus, with rufous suffusion before it; the apical area suffused with brown; the underside yellow, a blackish discoidal point, postmedial line blackish, excurved between discal fold and vein 2.
Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion), 1 % type; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 4 3, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap. 14- 16 mm.
(146 a) Pyrausta favibrunnea, sp. n.
Syllythria phenicealis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 208 (part.), nec Hiibn.
Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow mixed with brown, the — last with yellow segmental lines; palpi white below towards
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base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore legs brown in front. Fore wing yellow tinged with rufous, especially on costal and terminal areas, irrorated and in parts suffused with brown; antemedial line brown, sinuous ; a small dark spot in upper part of middle of cell and a discoidal lunule with some brown suffusion beyond it ; postmedial line brown, defined on outer side by yellow forming patches below costa and towards inner margin, excurved and minutely dentate from vein 6 to 2, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and angled outwards at vein 1 ; an indistinct, minutely dentate, brownish subterminal line, with brownish suffusion beyond it; a terminal series of minute dark lunules ; cilia with a series of brown points near base and brownish tips. Hind wing yellow tinged with brown except on costal area to the postmedial line, which is brown and oblique from just below costa to termen at sub- median fold ; the terminal area suffused with brown, nar- rowing to a point at submedian fold; the termen with a series of minute dark lunules and the cilia with a series of brown striz near base from apex to vein 2; the underside with dark discoidal lunule, postmedial minutely waved line, excurved from vein 5 to 2, where it terminates, and sub- terminal shade from costa to vein 2.
Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos (H. H. Smith), 2 2 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hap. 22 mm.
(150 a) Pyrausta perfervidalis, sp. n.
9. Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous yellow suffused with fiery red; palpt fuscous, white below; frons brown, with fine lateral white streaks; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing fulvous irrorated with fiery red, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with fiery red-brown ; a diffused curved red antemedial line ; a diffused fiery-red discoidal patch with whitish point in centre ; postmedial line slightly excurved between veins 5 and 2; a black terminal line; cilia blackish at base, white at tips. Hind wing fulvous red, the terminal area broadly red-brown ; an oblique blackish discoidal bar, with oblique line from it to inner margin; an oblique postmedial line from costa to the terminal band at vein 2, slightly bent out- wards at vein 5 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia blackish at base, white at tips.
Hab. Br. E. Arnica, Nairobi plains (Crawshay), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 18 mm.
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(1506) Pyrausta prostygialis, sp. n.
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow; palpi dark brown, white below towards base; frons with white streaks at sides; antennz fuscous; throat white; pectus brown in front ; ventral surface of abdomen pale yellow. Fore wing yellow tinged with fiery red, especially on terminal area, the costal area suffused with fuscous to the postmedial line ; antemedial line dark, angled outwards in submedian fold ; a dark discoidal lunule ; postmedial line dark, sinuous to vein 2, then bent inwards and obsolescent to below end of cell, and again excurved ; a black terminal line ; cilia white, with a strong black line near base. Hind wing yellow slightly tinged with red; a blackish discoidal bar; post- medial line blackish, somewhat oblique to vein 2, then bent inwards and obsolescent to lower angle of cell and sinuous to inner margin; a black terminal line except towards tornus ; cilia white, with a strong blackish line near base except towards tornus; the underside with the postmedial line incurved at discal fold.
Hab. Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1 3 type. Hap. 14 mm.
(15la) Pyrausta metachrysalis, sp. 0.
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen olive suffused with fuscous ; palpi white at base ; tarsi white ; abdomen at sides and below yellowish. Fore wing olive suffused with pale rufous ; an oblique antemedial series of indistinct rufous spots ; a slight spot at middle of cell and faint discoidal lunule; a deep rufous rather diffused postmedial line, ex- curved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, defined on outer side hy a yellow band. Hind wing deep orange. Underside of fore wing orange, with diffused red postmedial band from costa to vein 4 and diffused subterminal band ; hind wing with diffused red subterminal line from costa to vein 2, the termen and cilia tinged with red.
Hab. Cuitt, Chillan (Elwes), 2 3 type. Kxp. 26 mm.
Subsp.— ¢. Fore wing with the suffusion and markings rather darker.
¢. Fore wing suffused with deep chocolate-brown to the postmedial line.
Hab. Pataconia, Chubut, Valle Lago Blanco, 1 g,5 @. Ezp. 20 mm.
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Species of Pyralide.
(165 a) Pyrausta diatoma, sp. n.
6. Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous yellow ; palpi rufous, white below at base; pectus, legs, and ventral sur- face of abdomen white. Fore wing yellow; the costal area tinged with blood-red towards base ; an oblique diffused blood-red line from costa beyond middle to middle of inner margin; the termen tinged with blood-red. Hind wing yellowish white; the underside with brownish postmedial shade from costa to vein 3.
Hab. Natat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 g type. Exp. 18 mm.
(170 a) Pyrausta rhodoxantha, sp. n.
Syllythria tyralis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 206 (part.), nec Guen.
Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with yellowish ; palpi white below ; pectus and legs yellowish tinged with red-brown; abdomen yellowish dorsally suffused with purplish red. Fore wing purplish pink ; some yellowish at base of inner margin; a yellowish subbasal spot in sub- median interspace and an oblique antemedial band from middle of cell to inner margin; a quadrate discoidal spot with some diffused yellowish from it to inner margin ; a yellowish postmedial band, excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to near angle of cell, and erect to inner margin; some slight yellow marks before termen ; a terminal brown line from apex to vein 4; cilia brownish white. Hind wing yellowish tinged with brown, the termen crimson from apex to vein 2, on which there is a crimson streak, a brown band before termen from apex to vein 4.
Hab. Mexico, Guadalajaro (Schaus), 1 3 type, Guerrero, Amula (H. H. Smith), 1 2, Cuernavaca, Morelos (H. H. Smith), 1 g, Yucatan, Temax (Gaumer), 1 ¢, Godman-Sal- vin Coll. zp. 20 mm.
(173 a) Pyrausta tenuilinea, sp. n.
3. Head brown; thorax brown suffused with purplish pink; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing purplish pink ; a curved yellowish ante- medial line ; a brown discoidal striga ; postmedial line fine, yellowish, excurved and slightly sinuous to vein 4, then re- tracted to below end of cell and again excurved ; a terminal series of minute dark points; cilia brown, Hind wing
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whitish suffused with brown; some purplish pink on terminal part of vein 2; a fine black terminal line ; cilia whitish. Hab. W. Cotomsta, El Credo, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 14 mm.
(183 a) Pyrausta rubescentalis, sp. n.
Head and thorax yellowish suffused with dull red ; palpi fulvous, white below; frons with lateral white streaks ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with fuscous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing dull crimson more or less strongly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the costa towards apex, termen, and cilia bright yellow ; aslightly curved yellow antemedial line ; slight dark spots at middle of cell and on discocellulars ; postmedial line yellow, excurved and slightly waved from costa to vein 3, then retracted to below end of cell and sinuous to inner margin. Hind wing yellowish more or less strongly suffused with fuscous, the termen reddish, the cilia yellow ; traces of a curved yellowish postmedial line between veins 5 and 2; the underside with faint dark discoidal spot, the postmedial line traceable throughout, excurved between veins 5 and 2.
Hab. Paracuay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 ¢; ARGENTINA, Florenzia, Gran Chaco (Wagner), 2 g type. Exp. 16 mm.
r (183d) Pyrausta rhodope, sp. n.
¢. Head and thorax yellow mixed with purplish red ; palpi red, white at base, the third joint brown; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibie and the tarsi banded with red ; abdomen with the basal segments yellowish white, the terminal segments red with a dorsal silvery-white spot at base of anal segment, the ventral surface white. Fore wing yellow, the costal area suffused with purplish red, some purplish red on inner area near base; antemedial line purplish red, oblique to submedian fold, then incurved; an annulus in middle of cell and elliptical discoidal mark defined by purplish red ; the outer part of medial area suffused with purplish red to the postmedial line, which is oblique to discal fold, then waved and incurved below vein 3, a curved band of red suffusion beyond it from costa to termen at discal fold; a terminal series of brown points; cilia purplish red. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown, broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus. Underside white, the fore wing with reddish suffusion on costal half of terminal area.
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Ab. 1. Fore wing uniformly suffused with purple-red, the outer medial area somewhat darker.
9. Abdomen without the silvery-white spot on anal segment ; fore wing nearly uniform pale red; hind wing tinged with reddish except on basal area.
Hab. Cusa, Santiago (Schaus), 5 gd, 3 2 type. Earp. 24 mm.
(193 6) Pyrausta heliothidia, sp. n.
3. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some ochreous ; abdomen black-brown with slight ochreous seg- mental lines ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellow irrorated with black. Fore wing grey-brown thickly irrorated with black-brown. Hind wing yellow; a black fascia in lower part of cell, with some greyish hair on it from near base to just beyond the cell, and a similar fascia above inner margin from near base to tornus ; a black sub- terminal band diffused on apical half to the black terminal line ; cilia blackish mixed with yellow. Underside ochreous yellow ; fore’ wing with black spot in middle of cell and discoidal bar.
Hab, Peru, Oroya, 1 ¢ type. “zp. 18 mm.
(21la) Pyrausta albescens, sp. 0.
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with whitish, the pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen with more white. Fore wing pale bronze-brown, the terminal area whitish, some blackish sufiusion on basal inner area; a black streak below extremity of cell and spot at upper angle ; some slight black streaks beyond lower angle of cell ; a black terminal line. Hind wing whitish, the inner area suffused with brown: a blackish-brown postmedial band between veins 6 and 2 and a subterminal band; a black terminal line. Underside whitish suffused in parts with brown ; fore wing with brown discoidal bar.
Hab, Peru, Oroya, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 18 mm,
(214a) Pyrausta holophealis, sp. 0.
?. Black-brown with a metallic gloss ; frons with lateral yellow streaks; pectus and legs pale brown; fore tarsi yellowish ; wings without trace of markings.
Hab. Cua, Foo-chau (Leech), 1 2 type. Hap. 22 mm,
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(214.4) Pyrausta flavicollalis, sp. n.
¢. Greyish fuscous ; palpi at base, back of head, tegule, pectus, legs, ventral surface, and extremity of abdomen bright yellow ; fore tibiz and tarsi fuscous in front. Fore wing finely pencilled with black and bluish-white scales except costal and terminal areas.
Hab. Arcentina, Florenzia, Gran Chaco (Wagner), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 18 mm.
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I1.—Notes on the Lamellicorn Genus Popillia and Descrip- tions of some new Oriental Species in the British Museum. By GivBert J. ARROW.
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
In Dr. Kraatz’s list of the species of Popillia in the Deutsche ent. Zeitschr. 1892 (p. 3803), lamentable confusion was introduced into the classification of this difficult genus. Dr. Kraatz’s collection has happily become accessible, and the specimens of Popillia from India and China have been kindly sent to me for examination by Herr Schenkling. Hence the present notes. Having also examined the types of Hope and Newman in London and Oxford, and a number of Fairmaire’s in the Paris Museum, I am able to at least partially correct the confusion which has resulted from the inadequate descriptions of all those writers. Not only has Kraatz misapplied the names given by all his predecessors mentioned, but he has burdened his catalogue with numerous names of colour-varieties, which in several cases are not varieties of the species to which he has assigned them. He has not avoided the repetition of the same name for these varieties (e. g., cupricollis occurs three times and testacei- pennis twice), and so evidently did not contemplate their use as specific names in any case; and as they are merely descriptive of the colours of individual specimens, and are sometimes left to explain themselves without any attempt at definition, they are evidently not applicable as specific names. This is also the case with the many varietal names intro- duced by Ohaus, who has a var, testaceipes of P. complanata, Newm. (the new species P, pulchripes of the present paper),
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and also a var. testace’pes of P. deplanata, Ohaus, both described in the course of the same work.
Having separated Popillia 6-guttata, Fairmaire, from the genus Popillia, and formed for it the new genus Spilo- popilia, figuring the species upon his plate, Kraatz, upon a later page of his monograph, has described a very closely related insect with all the same generic features as a Popillia under the name of 6-maculata. ‘his is a broader form, with almost the same pattern, but nearly black ground-colour, and the pronotum is smooth, with tine and scanty punctu- ration. It should be called Spilopopillia 6-maculata.
I have long ago recorded my opinion that Kraatz’s genus Peeilosticta must be for the present merged in Anomala. ‘The same applies to Hadropopillia, which is synonymous with the subgenus Spilota.
The four species placed together as Ischnopopillia are not naturally associated together. The description applies best to rugicollis, Newm., and mooret, Kr. (the female of the latter was redescribed by Kraatz as andrewes?t), of which the former may be considered the type of the genus. J. exarata and erythroptera I consider species of Anomala.
P. fimbriata, Newm., does not belong to the genus. It will be described in the ‘ Fauna of British India.’
P. gemma, Newm., is not the species described by Kraatz under that name. It is the same as P. metallicollis, Fairm. Dr. Kraatz’s species is named P. pulchra later in this paper.
P. perotteti, Kr., is P. chlorion, Newm., of which P. ceru- lea, Boh., is not a variety. The form from Szechuen called perotieti, var. chrysitis, Kr., isa var. of P. ¢nconstans, Fairm., and not of perottetd. P. straminipennis, Kr., is 4-guttata, F., and P. chinensis. var. sordida, Kr., is a form of the same species and identical with P. castanoptera, Hope. The so-called varieties of chinensis, purpurascens, and frivaldskyt belong to yet another species distinguished by the smooth pronotum and the quadrate clypeus of the male, which sex was overlooked by Kraatz. :
P, andamanica, Kr., has been pronounced by Ohaus to be only a variety of P. marginicollis, Hope, but it is a very distinct species, marked, amongst other features, by the absence of a mesosternal process,
P. marginicollis, Hope, is the type of a group of species all distinguished by a peculiar type of elytral striation, but differing greatly in the form of the sternal process and other features. As all those hitherto known have been confused with P, marginicollis, I have tabulated and named here those known tome. They differ from all other Oriental species in
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having upon each elytron five dorsal strie (that is, striz lying between the suture and the humeral callus) equidistant from each other and without rows of punctures between them. ‘The ventral segments are each divided at the sides into two pseudo-segments by a carina from which spring hairy fringes, and in most species another row of hairs arises from the anterior margin of each segment. This double fringe is not visible at the extreme outer edge of the abdomen, and is most apparent, when present, in the penultimate segment.
Most of the species are subject to very great variation in pigmentation, especially upon the elytra.
Mesosternum more or less produced.
Ventral segments with single rows of hair.... pulchra, sp. n. Ventral segments with double rows of hair. Upper surface without dark markings...... felix, sp. n. Upper surface with dark markings. Elytra lightly striated .....,.......... levistriata, sp. n.
Elytra deeply striated. Mesosternal process rather long. Body convex; pale thoracic margin WASUO ie be Cec cho a4 ee & teas hee mongolica, sp. N. Body not very convex; pale thoracic margin sharp. Pygidial tufts elongate, small .... marginicollis, Hope. Pygidial tufts large and compact .. birmanica, sp. nu. Mesosternal process short. Legs red, base of the pronotum strongly
emarginate ........ wesectees. CANWANA, SP. D. Legs dark, base of the pronotum feebly emarginate ...... seveee ‘ewist, sp. n.
Mesosternum truncated. Short ; pronotum finely punctured, ventral seg- ments with double rows of hair ........ andamanica, Kr. Elongate ; pronotum strongly punctured, ven- tral segments with single rows of hair.... formosana, sp. n,
Popillia pulchra, sp. n.
Popillia gemma, Kr. (nee Newm.).
Lete cupreo-aurea, capite (clypeo excepto), pygidio (apice excepto) corporeque subtus zneo-viridibus, pedibus aureis, tarsis posticis nigris ; corpus rhomboidale, vix convexum, sat breve, clypeo brevi, antice fere recto, crebre punctato, fronte fortiter punctato; pro- noti lateribus sat fortiter medio vix punctato, angulis bene mar- catis, anticis acutis, posticis paulo obtusis, lateribus vix arcuatis, medio obtuse angulatis; elytrorum dorso profunde 4-striato, striis punctatis, interstitiis convexis, inequalibus, subsuturali basi sparse punctato ; pygidio profunde sed laxe transverse strigoso, basi haud dense flavido-bifasciculato, pectore toto abdominisque
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lateribus sat longe hirsutis ; processu mesosternali modice elon- gato, compresso, haud acuto.
Brilliant golden-yellow, with crimson and greenish reflec- tions, the head (except the clypeus), pygidium (except the posterior half), and lower surface dark metallic green, and the legs golden, with the hind tarsi black.
The body is rather short and rhomboidal in shape and not very convex. The clypeus is short, nearly straight in front and closely punctured, and the forehead is strongly and not very closely punctured. The pronotum is distinctly but not closely punctured at the sides, very lightly in the middle, and the angles are well marked, the front ones acute, the hind slightly obtuse, the sides scarcely rounded but angulated before the middle. The scutellum bears a few minute punc- tures. ‘The elytra have each five deep punctured dorsal strie. ‘The interstices are convex, but the second and fourth are a little depressed and the former bears a few large punc- tures anteriorly. ‘The pygidium is rather coarsely trans- versely strigose and bears two patches of pale hairs at the base. ‘The sternum is clothed with rather long decumbent hairs and each ventral segment has a row of similar hairs at ‘the side. The mesosternal process is compressed, rounded at the extremity, and moderately long. All the tibiz and the hind tarsi are short and thick in both sexes.
3. The front tibize are very broad and the two teeth short.
Length 9°5-11 mm.; breadth 6-6°5 mm.
Hab. Burma: Karen Hills (2700-3300 ft., Dec. 1888), L. Fea.
Popillia feliz, sp.n. (Fig. 2.)
Lzte igneo-metallica, elytris cupreo-rosaceis: ovalis, convexa, clypeo subtilissime rugoso, fronte sat fortiter et crebre punctato, pronoto vix perspicue punctato; angulis anticis acutis, posticis valde obtusis, lateribus medio angulatis, haud arcuatis ; scutello minute punctato; elytris striis 5 dorsalibus profunde impressis, inter- stitiis levibus, convexis, equalibus; pygidio sat grosse transverse striolato, basi bifasciculato; processu mesosternali sat longo, haud crasso ; metasterni lateribus albo-hirtis, segmentisque yentralibus transyersim bisectis, biseriatim pilosis.
Golden-red above and beneath, with the elytra orange-red, the pygidium bearing two basal patches of wiitish hairs, the sternum densely clothed (except in the middle) with similar hairs, and each ventral segment bearing two rows of trans- versely placed hairs at the sides, ‘he body is oval, compact
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and convex, and the upper surface very smooth and shining. The clypeus is shortly transverse, nearly straight in front and very finely rugose, and the forehead is rather closely and evenly punctured. ‘The pronotum is very smooth and shining and scarcely visibly punctured, with the front angles acute, the hind angles very obtuse, and the sides angulate in the middle and not visibly curved. The scutellum is very minutely punctured, and each elytron bears five deep, equi- distant, dorsal striz. The striz are finely punctured and the interstices smooth and convex. The pygidium is convex and rather coarsely transversely strigose. The mesosternal process is moderately long and slender, not flattened. The tibize are stout and the two teeth of the front tibia short and close together.
6. The front tibisee are very broad and the two teeth minute and sharp.
?. The terminal tooth of the front tibia is blunt and spatulate and the hind tarsi are very short and thick.
Length 13-14 mm. ; breadth 8 mm.
Hab. ASSAM,
A pair in the British Museum and one in the Oxford Museum (from the Miers Coll.) are labelled “ India” alone, and one in the German Entom, Nat. Museum is said to have come from Assam.
Popillia levistriata, sp, n.
Flavo-nea, capite postice, pronoti disco, scutelloque obscure viridi- bus: elongata, parum convexa, nitidissima; clypeo subtiliter ruguloso, fronte modice punctato; pronoto parce et minute punc- tato, postice levi, lateribus medio angulatis, angulis omnibus distinctis, anticis acutissimis, basi medio profunde exciso; elytris striis 5 dorsalibus minute punctatis leviter impressis, intervallis fere planis ; pygidio transversim ruguloso, basi maculis duabus grossis setosis ornato ; abdominis segmentis lateraliter transversim bisectis et biseriatim setosis ; mesosterno modice producto, fere acuto,
Reddish testaceous, suffused (except upon the elytra) with a metallic-green lustre, the head (except the clypeus), the pronotum and scutellum deep green, the former with rather broad but vaguely defined yellow margins. It is rather elongate and extremely smooth and shining. The clypeus is very minutely rugulose and the forehead rather closely punc- tured. The pronotum is very minutely punctured at the front and sides, the lateral margins are sharply angulated in the middle, the front angles very acute, the hind angles
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slightly obtuse but not rounded, and the base strongly excised before the scutellum, which bears only a few minute punc- tures. Hach elytron bears five equidistant punctured strix, which are lightly impressed, with the intervals scarcely con- vex. The pygidium is coarsely transversely rugose and bears two rather large compact patches of whitish hairs at the base. ‘he ventral segments are divided laterally by median carine, and each bears a double fringe of stiff hairs. The meso- sternum is produced into a moderately long and acute process.
6. The legs are very short and thick, and the front tibia bears two very minute sharp teeth placed close together at the extremity.
Length 11 mm.; breadth 6 mm.
Hab. Assam: Patkai Hills (Doherty).
I know only a single specimen (in the British Museum).
Popillia mongolica, sp.n. (Fig. 5.)
Testacea, capite toto, pronoto (lateribus vage flavis exceptis), scutello corporeque subtus obscure virldibus, corpore toto viridi-metallico- suffuso, elytris plus minusve fusco-lineatis: late ovata, convexa, supra nitida, clypeo subtiliter ruguloso, fronte cum vertice crebre punctatis ; pronoto et scutello parce et minute punctulatis, illo postice medio levigato, hoc apice acute angulato; elytris pro- funde striatis, striis dorsalibus 5 crebre et minute punctatis ; pygidio grosse transverse strigato, basi maculis duabus grossis setosis ornato ; abdominis segmentis lateraliter transversim bi- sectis et biseriatim setosis ; mesosterno modice producto.
P. mongolica is the most stout and globose species of the group known to me. The prothorax is very convex and round, smooth and shining, with a generally broad but rather vaguely limited pale lateral border. As in P. marginicollis and birmanica, the elytral striz are usually more or less tinged with dark pigment, which may extend on to some of the intervals. ‘he pygidium is decorated with two large tufts of white hair, and the abdominal segments are distinctly doubly fringed at the sides. ‘he mesosternal process is of moderate length.
Length 11-12 mm.; breadth 7-7-5 mm.
Hab, CHINA: Hong Kong, Foh-kien.
Popillia birmanica, sp.n. (Fig. 3.) Rufo-testacea, fronte, prothoracis medio, scutello corporeque subtus plus minusve viridi-eneis, pedibus pallidis, elytris plerumque tusco-lineatis, corpore toto, elytrisexceptis, viridi-metallico-tincto ;
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sat elongato, parum conyexo, clypeo subtiliter ruguloso, fronte crebre punctato, pronoto parce minute punctato, postice levigato : scutello fere levi, apice rotundato; elytris striis dorsalibus 5 profunde impressis, confluenter punctatis, interstitiis convexis ; pygidio grosse transversim strigato, basi maculis duabus grossis setosis lineisque setarum lateralibus fere ad apicem ductis ornato ; segmentis abdominalibus lateraliter transversim bisectis et bi- seriatim setosis ; mesosterno modice producto.
Reddish testaceous, with the head (except the clypeus), the middle of the pronotum, the scutellum, and parts of the lower surface dark green, entirely suffused with a metallic- green lustre, except upon the elytra, which have usually more or less distinct longitudinal dark lines.
It is elongate in shape and not very convex. The clypeus is very minutely rugulose and the rest of the head distinctly punctured. The pronotum is very finely and sparingly punctured, with the middle of the basal part quite smooth. The scutellum bears a few very minute punctures and its apex is rounded. ‘The elytra have each five very deep equi- distant dorsal striae bearing confluent punctures at the bottom, and the intervals are smooth and convex. The pygidium is coarsely transversely striolated and bears two large white hairy patches at the base and a line of irregular hairs on each side almost meeting at the apex. ‘The ventral segments are divided by transverse carinze at the sides and doubly fringed. ‘The mesosternum is moderately produced.
Length 9-12°5 mm.; breadth 5-7 mm.
Hab. Assam: Sylhet, Patkai Mts., Cachar; Burma: Momeit (Doherty) ; TENASSERIM: Papun (Lt.-Col. Adamson).
Popillia taiwana, sp. n. (Fig. 6.)
Rufo-castanea, capite (clypeo excepto), pronoti disco, scutello cor- poreque subtus fusco-viridibus, corpore toto (elytris exceptis) viridi-metallico suffuso ; capite antice minutissime rugoso, postice fortiter punctato; pronoto convexo, antice et lateraliter laxe punctato, postice levi, lateribus antrorsum a basi convergentibus, angulis distinctis, anticis acutissimis, baseos medio fortiter exciso, scutello minute punctato, apice rotundato; elytris striis 5 dor- salibus profunde impressis, minute punctatis; pygidio fortiter transversim punctato-striolato, basi maculis duabus grossis setosis ornato; abdominis segmentis lateraliter transversim bisectis, biseriatim setiferis ; mesosterno paulo producto, haud acuto.
This is a compact convex species, with the posterior part of the head, the dise of the pronotum, and the scutellum very deep green, and the yellow margins of the pronotum con-
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spicuous and sharply defined. It is only moderately shining above, the pronotum is finely punctured except behind, and the scutellum is broad and rounded, not angulate, at the apex. The mesosternum is produced into a short blunt process, and the sides of the abdominal segments bear double rows of short stiff hairs.
Length 10-11 mm.; breadth 6 mm.
fab. Formosa (Bowring). f
Popillia lewisi, sp. n.
Viridi-cuprea, elytris prothoracisque marginibus angustis, testaceis, levissime metallescentibus, tarsis antennisque piceis: modice elongata, parum convexa, nitidissima, capite subtiliter dense rugoso, vertice polito, parce punctato, clypeo parvo, sutura obso- leta ; pronoto a basi ad apicem angustato, antice et lateraliter sat fortiter punctato, postice medio levissimo, basi medio parum profunde exciso ; scutello vix punctato ; elytris striis 5 dorsalibus profunde impressis, his minute punctatis, stria sexta grosse punc- tata, antice abbreviata, reliquis grosse punctatis ; pygidio grosse transversim rugato, utrinque macula ?-forma flavo-pilosa ad apicem fere conjuncta, ornato; processu mesosternali brevi, compresso, corpore subtus ad latera flavido-piloso, abdomiuis segmentis lateraliter transversim bisectis, biseriatim pilosis.
This is the third species of Popillia found in the Japanese Islands and the smallest and most distinct of the three, P. ja- ponica, Newm., and ¢dnsu/arts, Lewis, being nearly inter- related and having an additional dorsal stria. P. lewis? is easily distinguished from the rest of the marginicollis group by the form of the long, curved, pubescent patches upon the pygidium. In most of the species there are a few straggling hairs between the basal tufts and the apex of the pygidium, but here the hairs are almost equally dense trom the base almost to the apex, forming a comma-like patch on each side. The sternal process is distinctly produced, but very broad and blunt, and the pronotum is rather long, with its sides convergent and only very feebly angulated in the middle.
Two male specimens have been found and presented to the British Museum by Mr. J. E. A. Lewis.
Length 9 mm.; breadth 5 mm.
Hab, Okinawa I. (Great Loo Choo).
Popilha formosana, sp.n. (Fig. 7.)
/Eneo-castanea, capite, pronoto, scutello corporeque subtus obscure viridibus, elytris testaceis, haud metallicis, clypeo antico pro- notique lateribus angustis plerumque testaceis, tarsis antennisque
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rubris, femoribus tibiisque aut viridibus aut pallidis; sat brevis et convexa, clypeo minute rugoso, sutura recta, vertice irregu- lariter grosse punctato; pronoto brevi, convexo, subtiliter irregu- lariter punctato, lateribus medio fortiter angulatis ; scutello paulo punctato; elytris striis 5 dorsalibus profundissime impressis et crebre punctatis, reliquis grosse punctatis, sexta antice abbre- viata; pygidio fortiter transversim strigato, basi maculis 2 grossis setosis ornato; mesosterno antice verticali, recte angulato ; corpore subtus ad latera sat longe griseo-piloso, abdominis segmentis lateraliter transversim bisectis, longe vix biseriatim pilosis.
This is a small species of rather elongate form, with the shoulders rather prominent, the dorsal striz extremely deep and strong, and the intervals very convex. ‘he pronotum is very distinctly punctured and deeply emarginate in front of the scutellum; the hairy patches on the pygidium are remote and not produced towards the apex, and the meso- sternum is truncate squarely in front and not produced. ‘The hairy clothing of the lower surface is long and shaggy, but not thick.
Length 8 mm.; breadth 4°5 mm.
Hab. Formosa: Tai-nan.
In my paper on the Ruteline Coleoptera of Ceylon (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii. 1911, p. 354), I pointed out that, contrary to the opinion previously held, only a small propor- tion of the Ceylonese Ruteline occurred also on the Indian mainland; but amongst this small number of species common to both I included the only species of Popillia found in Ceylon, following Kraatz and Ohaus, both of whom had made special studies of this insect and its varieties. Later investigation has shown that this species is no exception, but that the Indian forms determined by those authors as belonging to it are really distinct. The Ceylon insect must be called P. discalis, Walk., that being the oldest of the names bestowed upon it, for complanata, Newm., the name by which it has been known, belongs to a mainland form (the type is a female) superficially like it, but structurally different.
Identical colour-phases recur through a series of different species in this group, so that description of the colours alone, as has been thought sufficient hitherto, is quite valueless. Specimens from Southern India submitted to Dr. Kraatz by Mr. H. E. Andrewes and to Dr. Ohaus by myself have been determined by them as belonging to the numerous colour-phases of the so-called P. complanata, showing that
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the varietal names were applied not to definite natural forms, but to similarly coloured phases of various species collectively.
It is essential that descriptions should include the dis- tinctive male characters, the females of various species of this group, which is distinguished by the border of white hairs on each side of the pronotum, being extremely similar, while the males fall into two divisions. In that to which the Ceylonese P. discalis, with lucida, chlorion, adamas, &c., belong, the longer middle claw is entire, while in P. com- planata and other species it is cleft.
Five species of the group hitherto unrecognized are here described. Like all its other known members, they are Indian, and will be tabulated in my volume in the ‘ Fauna of British India.’
Popillia propingua, sp.n. (Fig. 15.)
Cuprea vel fusco-cenea, supra nitidissima, elytris testaceis: breviter ovata, clypeo et fronte dense rugosis, pronoto antice et lateraliter levissime punctato, lateribus sat dense albo-setosis ; scutello fere levi; singulis elytris dorsaliter transverse impressis et 5-striatis, striis punctatis, interstitio subsuturali lato, antice fortiter lineato- punctato ; pygidio grosse punctato, maculis magnis 2 albo-pilosis basi ornato ; mesosterno compresso, curvato, acuto,
Deep metallic green or coppery above and beneath, with the elytra alone testaceous ; shortly ovate and very shining above. ‘The clypeus and forehead are densely rugose and the vertex strongly punctured. The pronotum is very shining, minutely punctured at the front and sides, with a close fringe of white setze on each side. The scutellum is almost smooth. The elytra have each a distinct transverse impression before the middle and five punctured dorsal strie, the subsutural interval being broad and bearing a row of strong punctures anteriorly. ‘The pygidium is coarsely punctured and has two large, round, setose patches at the base and numerous scat- tered setee towards the apex. The mesosternal process is strongly curved and sharp-pointed.
3. The inner front claw is broad, but scarcely angulated, and the outer claw of the middle tarsus is entire.
Length 8°5-10 mm.; breadth 5-6°5 mm.
Hab. 8. Inp1a: Travancore (G. S. Imray).
This has the closest resemblance to P. discalis and com- planata, but, with the exception of the elytra, it is uniformly dark in colour, the legs, clypeus, and sides of the pronotum being apparently always without the pale colouring which usually tinges them in the other two species. The fovex
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before the middle of the elytra are deeper and the mesosternal process is more pointed. The male is immediately distin- guishable from that of P. complanata by the fact that the outer claw of the middle tarsus is not cleft. The zdeagus of the male P. propingua is represented at fig. 15, and that of P. complanata at fig. 12.
Popillia pulchripes, sp.n. (Fig. 10.) P. complanata, var. viridipennis, Kr. Deutsche ent. Zeitschr, 1892, p. 268. P. complanata, vax. testaceipes, Oh. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 345. Metallico-viridis, cyanea vel cuprea, prothoracis lateribus (anguste) pedibusque pallide flavis, sed tibiarum posticarum apice et tarsis posticis nigris : elongato-ovalis, convexa, nitida, prothoracis lateri- bus parce albido-setosis, pygidio maculis duabus haud magnis sed compactis basi ornato; clypeo rugoso, fronte erebre punctato ; pronoto parce et minute punctato; scutello fere impunctato ; singulis elytris fovea post scutellum striisque 5 dorsalibus punctatis profunde impressis, intervallo subsuturali modice lato, antice paulo punctato; pygidio grosse transverse striolato; processu mesosternali compresso, curvato, subacuto.
Uniform metallic green, blue or coppery above and beneath, with the extreme lateral edge of the prothorax and the legs bright orange, except the hind tarsi and the extremity of the hind tibie, which are almost black. The extremity of the abdomen is often orange also.
Rather elongate-oval in shape, very smooth and shining, with a scanty fringe of greyish hairs at the sides of the pro- notum, a small but compact tuft on each side of the base of the pygidium, and a thin clothing at the sides of the body beneath. The clypeus is rugosely, and the forehead closely, punctured, the pronotum very finely and scantily (except near the sides) and the scutellum almost smooth. The elytra have each a deep transverse impression behind the scutellum and five strongly impressed and punctured strix, and the intervals are convex, the second not much wider than the third and bearing only a few punctures. The pygidium is coarsely transversely puuctured, and the mesosternal process is com- pressed, strongly curved, and not very blunt.
g. The front tibia is armed with two short sharp teeth, the lower lobe of the inner front claw is not angulated, and the longer claw of the middle foot is not cleft.
Length 10-12 mm. ; breadth 6—7 mm.
Hab. 8. Inpia: Nilgini Hills.
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Taken in some numbers by Mr. H, L. Andrewes and Sir G. Hampson.
I have explained in my preliminary remarks why the names applied as varietal names to this and other forms described here cannot be retained.
Popillia evimia, sp.n. (Fig. 14.)
Supra omnino lete viridis: subtus cuprea, ovalis, sat convexa, nitida, clypeo rugoso, fronte crebre punctato, pronoto antice et lateraliter minute punctato, postice levi, lateribus setis albidis sat anguste marginatis, scutello lato, levi, haud angulato; singulis elytris fovea profunda pone scutellum striisque 5 dorsalibus profundis punctatis impressis, intervallo subsuturali haud lato, impunctato ; pygidio grosse transverse punctato, basi utrinque macula haud magna albo-setosa ornato; processu mesosternali modice longo, curvato, compresso,
Bright green above and coppery beneath, with a close but narrow margin of white setz on each side of the pronotum and a small compact patch on each side of the pygidium.
It is oval and moderately convex in shape and very smooth and shining above. The clypeus is rugose, the forehead densely punctured, the pronotum finely and scantily punc- tured at the front and sides, and the scutellum almost un- punctured. The last is broad and rounded at theapex. The elytra have each a very large and deep impression behind the scutellum and five deep dorsal striae, which are distinctly punctured. The subsutural interval is scarcely wider than the next and almost unpunctured. The pygidium is coarsely transversely punctured, and the mesosternal process is mode- rately long, compressed, curved, and pointed.
3. The two teeth of the front tibia are minute and sharp, the lower iobe of the inner front claw is not angulated nor very wide, and the longer claw of the middle feet is simple.
Length 11°5 mm.; breadth 7 mm.
Hab. 8. Invia: Nilgiri Hills (G. 7. Hampson).
Asingle ¢ specimen.
Popillia clara, sp. n.
Viridis vel igneo-rufa, pronoti margine parcissime griseo-hirto pygidioque utrinque fasciculo minuto ornato: ovalis, glabra, nitida, clypeo rugoso, fronte crebre punctato, prothorace late- raliter parce punctato ; scutello levi; elytris sat vage punctato- striatis; pygidio grosse strigato; processu mesosternali compresso, obtuso, fere recto.
Bright metallic green or fiery red above and beneath, or Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xii. 4
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with the upper surface, or the elytra only, fiery red; very smooth and shining.
The body is compactly ovate and moderately convex. The clypeus is rugose, short, with its front edge almost straight, and the forehead is closely punctured. The pronotum is very smooth and shining, with a few fine punctures near the front and sides, and the lateral grooves are deep and contain a very few inconspicuous whitish hairs. The scutellum is almost unpunctured and scarcely angulated at the apex. The elytra have each a distinct transverse impression before the middle and five lightly impressed and punctured dorsal striz, the first, third, and fifth intervals being slightly convex, and the Second broad and irregularly punctured along the middle. The pygidium is transversely strigose and ‘bears a very minute tuft of outstanding whitish hairs on each side of the base and some scattered hairs towards the apex. The meso- sternal process is moderately long, compressed, blunt, and nearly straight. The sides of the sternum and abdomen are clothed with long but not close hair.
3. The front tibia is very broad and armed with two short but sharp teeth, the lower lobe of the inner front claw is angulated near the base, and the outer middle claw is cleft at the tip. The pygidium is smoother, shorter, and more inclined than in the female, and slightly protuberant at the extremity.
@. The terminal tooth of the front tibia is long, curved, and blunt.
Length 9-12 mm.; breadth 5°5-7 mm.
Hab. S. Invi: Nilgiri Hills (77. L. Andrewes), Pondi- chery.
Mr. Andrewes took this species in considerable numbers.
Popillia schizonycha, sp.n. (Fig. 11.)
Haud lete viridis, viridi-aurea vel cuprea,elytris sepe magis obscure viridibus, nigro-cyaneis vel rufescentibus, marginibus plus minusve infuseatis, clypeo, pedibus, abdominisque apice plerumque obscure rufis: corpus sat latum, robustum, supra nitidum; clypeo rugose punctato, fronte crebre punctato, scutello pronotoque antice et lateraliter minute et parce punctato, horum lateribus setis albidis modice late marginatis; singulis elytris fovea transversa post scutellum striisque 5 dorsalibus punctatis profunde impressis ; pygidio grosse transversim striolato, basi maculis duabus setosis
magnis rotundatis ornato ; processu mesosternali longo, compresso, obtuso.
Deep green, golden-green, or coppery, with the elytra generally darker green or blue-black, but sometimes reddish
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with a metallic-green suffusion and the sides more or less dark. The clypeus, legs, and extremity of the abdomen are sometimes also of a deep red colour.
It is a broad and massive insect, smooth and shining, and moderately convex above. The sides of the pronotum are conspicuously bordered with white hairs, the pygidium bears a pair of large round hair-patches at the base, and the lower surface is rather thickly clothed at the sides with similar white hairs. The clypeus is rugosely punctured, tie fore- head densely, and the scutellum and front and sides of the pronotum very finely and sparsely. The elytra have each a deep fovea behind the scutellum and five deeply impressed and punctured dorsal striz. The subsutural interval is broad and has an irregular line of large punctures along the middle. The pygidium is coarsely transversely striolated, and the mesosternal process is strongly compressed and rounded at the extremity.
3. The two teeth of the front tibia are short and sharp, the inner front claw has a broad angulated lower lobe, and the outer middle claw is cleft at the tip.
Length 11-12°5 mm. ; breadth 6°5-7°5 mm.
Hab. 8. InpIA: Bangalore, Nilgiri Hills (H. Z. An-
drewes).
Three other Oriental species of Popillia, which have been described in connection with a volume in preparation for the ‘Fauna of British India’ series, may be conveniently included here :—
Popiliia pilosa, sp. n.
Golden or coppery green, with the lower surface and legs darker coppery green, and the elytra testaceous, with a metallic sheen, and with the outer edges coppery black. The body is ovate and a little depressed. The clypeus is rugose and short, with the front margin feebly rounded and slightly reflexed. The forehead is rugosely punctured and clothed with long, erect, yellow hairs, and the vertex strongly and distinctly punctured. The pronotum is coarsely punctured, the punctures becoming confluent near the sides, and is also clothed with long but not close yellow hairs. The lateral margins are scarcely curved, angulated before the middle, with the front and hind angles sharp, the former produced, the latter right angles. The scutellum bears a few unequal punctures, and each elytron bears seven nearly equidistant dorsal punctured striae, the second and fifth less impressed than the rest and abbreviated behind. There is no abrupt
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lateral flange. The pygidium is punctured and bears two basal tufts of yellow hairs. The lower surface is clothed, except along the middle line of the abdomen, with long yellowish hair, and the mesosternal process is short and vertical in front.
3. The inner front claw has the lower lobe very broad and angulate near the base, the two teeth of the front tibia are short and sharp, and the hind tarsi are rather longer and slenderer than those of the female.
Length 7°5-8'5 mm.; breadth 4°5 mm.
Hab. WersterN Hrmanayas: Dehra Dun; Kumaon; Lansdown Garhwal (A. G. Lyell, June 1909).
Popillia simlana, sp. n.
Golden or coppery green, with the legs and lower surface dark coppery and the elytra testaceous, with a metallic suffu- sion and the extreme lateral margins coppery black. The body is ovate and a little depressed. The clypeus is con- fluently punctured, broad, with the front margin nearly straight and strongly reflexed. The forehead is rugosely punctured and thinly clothed with erect yellow hairs. The pronotum is very strongly punctured, the punctures becoming confluent near the lateral margins, which are scarcely curved, angulated near the middle, with the front angles acute and the hind angles obtuse. The whole surface is thinly clothed with erect yellowish hairs. The scutellum bears only a few fine punctures and the elytra have each five complete punc- tured dorsal striae, the second interval very wide and bearing many large irregular punctures, and the fourth having a few punctures forming an imperfect row along the middle. The pygidium bears coarse and not close transverse striol, and is decorated at the base with two tufts of greyish hairs. The lower surface and legs are similarly clothed with long, but not close, grey hairs, except at the middle of the abdomen. The mesosternal process is vertical in front and not produced beyond the front coxe., ;
gd. The inner front claw has the lower lobe very broad, the front tibia is armed with two short and sharp teeth, and the hind tarsi are rather longer and slenderer than in the female.
Length 8-9 mm. ; breadth 4-5 mm.
Hab. PunsaB: Simla (7000 feet—H. Chippendale, June 1909) ; Nepau: Khatmandu (Col. Manners Smith, June 1909).
This species exactly resembles P. pilosa, but is easily
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distinguished by the broad reflexed clypeus. The elytral sculpture is also slightly different.
Popillia amabilis, sp. n.
Viridi-aurea vel cuprea, elytris, pedibus 4 anterioribus femoribusque - posticis flavis, sneo-tinctis, tarsis posticis obscuris: elongato- ovalis, haud convexa, clypeo parvo, rugoso, fronte pronotoque crebre et grosse punctatis, horum basi levigato, lateribusque rugatis; scutello parum punctato, elytris lineis 7 dorsalibus fortiter punctatis, lateribus abrupte deplanatis ; pygidio maculis 2 magnis flavo-setosis fere conjunctis ornato; processu meso-
sternali valido, compresso, apice rotundato.
Rich golden-green, the elytra, front and middle legs and hind femora pale yellow with a metallic-green lustre, the lower surface, pygidium, and hind tibie generally reddish golden, and the hind tarsi dark brown.
It is elongate in shape and not very convex above. The pygidium bears two large patches of yellow setz extending almost across it at the base, but scarcely meeting in the middle, the apex bears similar scattered sete, and the lower surface is rather closely clothed at the sides. The clypeus is very short and rugose, the forehead strongly and densely punctured, and the pronotum coarsely and densely punctured except before the scutellum, the punctures coalescing near the sides. The scutellum bears only a very few punctures, and the elytra have seven dorsal rows of strongly impressed and punctured lines, the second line rather irregular and disrupted at the base. The sutural space is broad and tapers considerably at each end. There is a narrow but abrupt lateral flange at the external margin. The pygidium is scantily punctured and shining along the middle. The mesosternal process is strong, compressed, broad, and bluntly rounded at the end.
3. The legs are stout, the front tibia armed with two short sharp teeth near the end, the lower lobe of the inner front claw is angulated near the base and the longer claw of the middle foot entire,
I do not know the female.
Length 9-10 mm. ; breadth 5-6 mm.
flab. ASSAM: Manipur, Naga Hills (Doherty).
This ‘species is very close to P. difficilis, Newm., but in that the pronotum is much less strongly punctured and the lateral flanges to the elytra are absent.
The types of all the species here described as new are in the British Museum. ~
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diagrammatic figures of the edeagus of the male of species referred to this paper :—
Fig. 1. Popillia marginicollis. Fig. 9. Popillia lucida. . Fig. 2. oy afl Fig. 10. 5» pulchripes. Fig. 3. yy _ birmanica. Fig. 11. » schizonycha, Fig. 4. 4 andamanica. Fig. 12. » complanata. Fig. 5. 55 mongolica, Fig. 13. » dscalis. Fig. 6. yy tavwana, Fig. 14. » evtmia, Fig. 4 » formosana. Fig, 15. 9 ~~ propinqua.
» adamas.
or or
Mr. F. W. Edwards on Mycetophilid Synonymy.
I1I.—Some Mycetophilid Synonymy (Diptera). By F. W. Epwanps,
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
THE synonymy given in the following notes has been deter- mined during a recent examination of the exotic Mycero- PHILID& in the British Museum, particularly the species described from the Seychelles Islands by Enderlein (Trans. Linn. Soce., Zool. ser. 2, vol. 14, 1910, pp. 59-81).
Of Enderlein’s species referred to, Scottella argenteo- squamosa is the species previously described by Meijere from Java as Allactoneura cincta. As Brunetti has pointed out (Fauna Brit. Ind., Nematocera, p. 88, 1912), de Meijere, in his figure and description, has accidentally omitted any reference to the small cross-vein which probably represents the vein Ro;3, the presence of which indicates, as Johannsen has suggested, that this genus belongs to the Sciophiline. The British Museum possesses undoubted specimens of A. cincta from Ceylon, and ‘these differ in no way from the Seychelles specimens. ‘The genus Aldlactoneura is a re- markably isolated one; it will include, besides the type species, Scottella formosana, End. (Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p- 63, 1910), and Mycetophila obscurata, Walk. (Proc. Linn, Soc. vol. vii. p. 130, 1865). The former is distinguishable by the yellow base to the hind femora; the latter has black femora, but has the costal border instead of the apex of the wing darkened. ‘Two specimens in the British Museum from Queensland have wings resembling A, obscurata, but have the base of the hind femora yellow ; they may be A. formo- sana, the wings of which Enderlein does not describe,
Aphanizophleps, Knd., would seem to be indistinguishable from Manota, Will.
Phronia flavellipennis, End., P. silhouettensis, End., P. areolata, End., and P. subvenosa, End., are in reality all species of Hwechia. ‘The very diferent structure of the ovipositor shows that P. subvenosa, var. tricincta, is a distinct species; it also belongs to Lxechia. Macrobrachius brevi- Jurcatus, though having the cubital fork rather shorter than usual, is a distinct Phronta.
Mycetophila seychellensis, Eind., collar’s, End., and lurtdi- ceps, Hnd., all belong to the genus Delopsis, Skuse. This transference renders invalid Brunetti’s Delopsis collarts (Fauna Brit. Ind. p. 119, 1912), and I propose to rename this species DELOPSIS BRUNETTI, nom. nov. L. brunetti¢
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differs from the other four described species in having a yellow scutellum. It may be mentioned that in none of the species (including D. flavipennis, Skuse, a specimen of which IT have examined) does the anal vein quite reach the hind margin. In an undescribed species in the British Museum from Ashanti, the costa extends slightly beyond the tip of the radial sector.
The following Walkerian types in the British Museum are assignable to different genera from those in which they were originally described :—
Platyura insolita belongs to Symmerus (but Sc, is rather long, ending free). Leia unicolor pa Mycomyia (s. str.). yy indivisa 9 Mycomyia (Neoempheria). yy nubilipennis 9 Acrodicrania (but Cu, is not detached at base). Mycetophila apicalis os ge tN (=B. longicauda, Lundstr., 1912). 7 cincticornis . Boletina (= B. nigricora, Staeg.,
Lundstr.; hypopygium identical, but has yellow coxe).
. concolor - Boletina (= B. sciarina, Mg.). o despecta a Phronia.
bs plebeia <- Exechia.
s bifasciata ; Dynatosoma.
1V.—Some new Species of Indian Tenebrionide. By K. G. Brarr.
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
Blaps armata.
Elongata, prothorace leviter transverso, lateribus regulariter arcu- atis, marginibus reflexis, dorso convexiusculo subtiliter punctu- lato ; elytris elongato-ovatis, apice sat acute rotundato haud caudato; femoribus anticis ante apicem acute dentatis.
Long. 30 mm.
Hab. Chitral (R. Hill) ; Fort Sandeman (£. P. Stebbing). This species, of which only the female is before me, seems to be very distinct from any‘other described species, From B. femoralis, Fisch., which has the anterior femora toothed, it differs, enter alia, in being only half as long and in in- habiting a different region ; it cannot be placed in Asidoblaps
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or Celocnemodes, but its general facies suggests a close relationship with Slaps tndicola, Bates, though, without some knowledge of the male characters, it is impossible to speak with certainty. The evenly rounded and narrowly recurved margins of the thorax, the elongate-ovate form of the elytra, with the sides evenly rounded trom base almost to apex (which, though acute, is not at all caudate), give the insect a very distinctive appearance. The lateral carina of the elytra is completely marginal.
Setents semiopaca.
Nigra aut picea, subopaca, sutura clypeali subobsoleta, prothorace post apicem latiori, angulis anticis rotundatis, posticis acutis fere rectis, dorso sat regulariter punctato, foveis et linea media obso- letis; elytris postice ampliatis sat subtiliter punctato-striatis, intervallis planis, parte dorsali subnitida, postice et ad lateres per granulos minutos opacis ; tibiis anticis et mediis maris leviter
arcuatis, femine rectis.
Long. 20-25 mm.
Hab. Sylhet (Brit. Mus.); Subatach, Jaunsaur, N.W. Himalaya (Stebding).
This species must be very close to S. parvicollis, Fairm., though the thorax is but feebly transverse and has its greatest width shortly before the apex. The disc is convex, with a fairly dense and even puncturation and but faint traces of a median furrow and lateral foveze. The elytral strie are very slightly impressed and finely punctate, the interstices flat. The dorsal area is moderately shining, but the sides and posterior declivity are rendered opaque by the presence of minute granules. The femora are unarmed, the anterior and middle tibiz of the male slightly curved, the apex clothed within with a short golden pubescence.
Setenis semivalga.
Oblonga, nigra, seminitida, sutura clypeali distincta ; antennis longi- usculis, articulis omnibus elongatis ; prothorace transverso, angu- lis anticis rotundatis, posticis acute rectis, dorso sat parce punctu- lato, medio sat distincte sulcato utrinque leviter foveolato ; elytris punctato-striatis, intervallis convexis; tibiis anticis maris medio incrassatis, subdentatis, arcuatis, apice auro-pubescentibus, ceteris et femine omnibus leviter sinuatis,
Long. 25-27 mm.
Hab. Ceylon (Bates Coll.) ; Kudrai, Central Prov. (Sted- bing).
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Resembles S. valga, Wied., but the thorax is less trans- verse, with the sides subparallel, the median furrow entire, and the surface rather scantily and not strongly punctate. The striz of the elytra are rather coarsely punctured, with the interstices convex. ‘I'he anterior tibize in the male are thickened and subdentate in the middle; in valga the tooth is more pronounced and much nearer the femur; the distal portion is arcuate and clothed with a short golden pubescence at the apex. From 8S. confusa, Fairm., it is at once distin- guished by the length of the antennee, which reach almost to the base of the thorax, having all the joints longer than
broad.
Camarimena rugosistriata.
Elongata, subparallela, fusco-znea, nitida, corpore omnino sat parce supra inconspicue sericeo-pubescenti, capite prothoraceque dense sat fortiter punctatis, elytrorum striis dense rugoso-punctatis, intervallis parce et subtiliter punctulatis, sulculis transversis lateribus irregulariter rugatis; subtus pedibusque fusco-zneis, dense punctatis, femoribus anticis clavatis, ceteris vix incrassatis.
Long. 18 mm.
Hab. “Ind. or.”’ (Bates Coll.) ; Kunain, Jaunsaur, N.W. Himalaya (Stebbing).
Entirely bronze-coloured and covered with a scanty incon- spicuous silky pubescence. ‘lhe sculpture of the elytra is very distinct, the punctures of the strize being very closely placed and transversely elongate, giving off irregularly a short furrow which encroaches on the interstice, now on one side now on the other; the intervals are nitid and sparsely punctulate. The legs are densely punctured, with the femora but feebly clavate, those of the anterior legs being most strongly so.
‘his species had been separated by Bates from Camart- mena under the name of Pigeus, but without characterization of the genus. For the present, however, until the group comes to be revised, 1 consider it best to leave i¢ in Camari- mena.
V.—On a new Species of Clementia. By A. J. Jukes-Browng, F.R.S., F.G.S.
[Plate I.]
THE shell which forms the subject of this communication is one of two specimens which were purchased by Mr. J. C. Melvill at the recent sale of Mr. Bulow’s collection. They
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were included in a small set of different species of Caryatis (= Pitaria), and were accompanied by a ticket bearing the inscription “ Caryatis aresta, Dall and Simpson, Mayaguez, Porto Rico.” Knowing that I was then making a study of the genus Pitaria, Mr. Melvill very kindly sent me one of these shells, together with some of the other species, for examination, which revealed the fact that the supposed ** Pituria aresta”’ did not belong to that species or genus, but were a form of Clementia.
So far as external appearance is concerned, the shell does closely resemble P. aresta as figured and described by Messrs. Dall and Simpson, and Porto Rico is the locality from which that species was obtained. Both are inflated shells of a dull white colour, with fine concentric striation, obliquely oblong in shape, with rather prominent umbones set far forward, so that there is a short anterior and a very long posterior slope. But the hinge of the shell hereafter described is very different from that of Pitaria, being without any lateral teeth, and having a deep triangular concavity in front of each anterior cardinal.
The special interest of this discovery lies in the fact that all the known recent species of Clementia are inhabitants of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, whereas this comes from the Caribbean Sea. ‘There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the label, which appears to-be in the late Mr. Biilow’s hand- writing, nor is there any reason to suppose that this label had been interchanged with some other one, for none of the other species in the set resemble P. aresta, while these two shells might have been mistaken for that species by anyone who did not critically examine them inside.
I have compared the specimen in my hands with the figures and descriptions of all the known species of Clementia, and, further, by the kindness of Mr. J. J. MacAndrew I have had the opportunity of actually seeing specimens of most of the species, and I find the shell in question to be different from all of them. It is a stouter, stronger, and more chalky shell than any of the recent species, so that the interior has a smooth surface of its own, which is not the counterpart of the exterior, as in most recent species.
The only modern species to which it bears any resemblance is Clementia vatheleti, Mabille, from Korean waters. I am indebted to Mr. G. K. Gude for sending me a copy of Mabille’s description of this species, which was not accom- panied by a figure *; from this Latin description C. vatheleti
* Bull, Soc, Philom, Paris, (8) iii. p. 57 (1901).
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seems to be similar in shape and equally oblique (‘‘ transverse oblongo-ovata’’), but has several important points of difference, being 1 regularly rounded in front and having a nearly straight postero- -dorsal slope, while ventrally it is much deeper, so that the ventral border is nearly a complete semicircle; the shell is rather thin, so that the interior surface is undulating, to correspond with the exterior; the pallial sinus is wide and linguiform, passing beyond the middle of the shell (“ medium longitudinis superante’’). There seem also to be some diffe- rences in the position of the teeth.
The present species has also some resemblance to the figure of Clementia gray?, Dall, a fossil from the Upper Oligocene of Florida *. This is an oblong shell, described as ‘‘ convex, rude, concentrically coarsely and irregularly striated,” so that the external appearance is similar, but it is less oblique and less elongate, and has a much deeper pallial sinus ; moreover, Dr. ‘Dall states that the cardinal teeth are entire, whereas in all the other species which I have examined the right posterior cardinal is deeply bifid.
Dr. Dall has also described the single right valve of a shell from the west coast of Mexico under the name of Clementia solida ; but the dentition of this (as figured) T is very unlike that of any other species of Clementia, and if the shell does really belong to that genus, it will not compare with the form under consideration.
I have not been able to ascertain how the Porto Rico shells came into Mr. Biilow’s possession, but there seems to be no doubt about their being a new species, and, as the obliquity of shape and the forward position of the umbones are such conspicuous features, I propose to give it the specific name of obliqua. The following i is a description both in English and Latin :—
Clementia obliqua, J.-Br.
Shell rather larger (59 x 44°5 mm.), fairly strong, not thin, oblong-oblique, the umbones being so far forward that a vertical from them cuts off four-fitths of the length ; anterior side attenuated, owing to the upward slope of the ventral margin (as in Pitarta obliquata) ; postero-dorsal slope long and arcuate, posterior side broadly rounded and subtruncate.
Valves inflated, dull white, coarsely and irregularly con- centrically striated, not undulated, though some of the
* Trans, Wagner Free. Inst. Sc. Philad. vol. iii. pl. xxxvii. fig. 12 (1900). + Proc. U.S. Nat, Mus, vol. xxvi. pl. xiv. fig. 4.
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strisee are more prominent than others. Lunule cordate, faintly circumscribed and nearly flat, but not impressed ; escutcheon not defined, but its ligamental edges slightly raised; ligament completely sunk, but conspicuous and rather long.
Interior smooth, white, opaque; pallial sinus ascending, angular, bounded by straight lines, not reaching to the middle of the valve. Posterior adductor scar larger than the anterior. Hinge-plate well developed and prolonged at each end, with three cardinal teeth in each valve, the first in the right being tall and prominent and the third deeply and widely bifid; in the left the first and second are united at the top, the third is distant, long, laminar, and highest at its posterior end.
Testa paulo major (59 x 44 mm.), satis valida, haud tenui, oblonga, obliquissima, umbonibus adeo provectis ut linea de vertice pen- dens quatuor partes longitudinis a quinta desecat; latere antico attenuato, propter marginis ventralis acclivitatem ; latere postico lato et subtruncato, declivitate dorsali arcuata.
Valvis inflatis, albidis, striis concentricis densis irregularibus sculptis, non undulatis, quanquam striz complures inter ceteras exstant. Lunula cordata, linea indistincta circumscripta, fere plana sed non impressa; area non definita, sed marginibus ligamentum contin- gentibus elevatis ; ligamento elongato, profundato, sed per rimam conspicuo.
Pagina interna albida, opaca; sinu pallii ascendente, lineis rectis cincto, apice acuto, medio valve non porrigente. Vestigio mus- culi posterioris quam anterioris majore. Lamina cardinali exserta et utrimque producta, dentibus tribus cardinalibus munita, quorum in valva dextra primus altus et prominens est, tertius late et profunde bifidus; in valva sinistra dentibus primo et secundo ad verticibus conjunctis, tertio longo, remoto, angusto, ad finem posticam altiori.
Since the above was written, I have ascertained from Dr. L. Germain that C. vatheleti has not yet been figured, and he has been good enough to send me one of the types in the Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle of Paris, in order that it may be figured and compared with C. obliqua. I therefore take this opportunity of describing C. vathe/eti in English.
Shell rather lagge (66x56 mm.), fairly strong, but not quite so solid as C. obliqua, oblong-ovate, and almost sub- quadrate, very oblique, with prominent umbones, which are placed very far forward ; anterior side short and rounded, ventral side expanded into a semicircular curve and sloping up to meet the postero-dorsal border, so that the greatest length of the shell is across the muscular scars ; postero-
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dorsal margin slightly curved, but slope of the shell above nearly straight.
Valves inflated, irregularly undulated, and finely striated, the undulations being more regular and pronounced on the umbonal areas. lLunule flattish, not defined; escutcheon depressed and bordered by obscure ridges, which become angular near the umbones. Ligament short, broad, and conspicuous.
Interior surface undulating, white; pallial sinus wide, ascending, angular, reaching a little beyond the middle of the shell ; adductor scars superficial and not differing much in size. Hinge-plate very short; teeth small and near together, both posteriors long and thin, that of the right valve being very narrow and not bifid, though it is grooved.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.
Figs. 1, 2. Clementia obliqua, J.-Br., right valve. Figs. 3, 4. Clementia vatheleti, right valve.
VI.— Descriptions of new Species of African Heterocera tn the Oxford Museum. By G. T. Betuune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S.
Notodontide.
Stauropus dambe, sp. n.
@. Head and thorax chocolate-brown, with a large ad- mixture of greenish rough scales. Primaries creamy grey, thickly irrorated with green and dark red-brown scales; the postmedian deeply crenulate line, more or less obscured, is dark red-brown ; submarginal line dark red-brown, deeply waved, prominent, and continued along the fold across the middle of the cell and less distinctly along the costa ; this somewhat unusual marking should serve to easily discrimi- nate the species. Secondaries pale brown, with the usual Stauropus apical mark.
Hxpanse 47 mm. ¢
Had. Damba Island, on the Equator in the Victoria Nyanza, 20 miles south-east of Entebbe.
Type in the Oxford Museum.
Dr. Carpenter found the larva on April 12th; it spun up on the 14th of that month, and the imago emerged on May 2nd following.
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Peratodonta bella, sp. n.
3d. Head and face tawny brown; collar prominent, ochreous, broadly tipped with tawny brown; thorax purplish grey, with patagia pinkish ; abdomen with dorsum pinkish grey; ventral surface purplishe grey. Primaries with dark linear costa, below which they are tawny brown, gradually becoming paler and shading off into pale pinkish, and in parts of the cell to cream-colour ; an oblique more or less wedge-shaped patch of dark tawny brown occupies tlhe terminal area, beginning ina fine line in the apex and getting rapidly wider to vein 2; below vein 2 the whole of the inner margin is pale tawny ash-colour; in the middle of the terminal area is an irregular, pale bright olive-brown, tooth- shaped mark extending shortly upwards towards the apex. Secondaries uniform cream-colour.
?. Like the male, but without the sharp contrasts, the colours being duller, more uniform, the terminal area being pinkish rather than tawny, whilst the secondaries are darkish brownish grey; the last segment of the abdomen has a pale ash-grey tuft.
Expanse, ¢ 38, ? 49 mm.
Hab. Oni, 70 miles E. of Lagos.
Types in the Oxford Museum.
Male taken by W. A. Lamborn in the verandah of his house at Oni Camp, 4 P.m., Sept. 9, 1911; the female at 3 P.M. on Sept. 10. A second male was taken in the same position at 4 P.M. on Sept. 9. Mr. Lamborn is confident that all three specimens had emerged from the pup of captured larve that had escaped. Mr. Lamborn also captured a third male at rest on the upperside of a leaf in the forest, 1 mile east of Oni, March 23, 1911. All four specimens appeared in the wet season, which lasted from March 15 to Dec. 8, 1911.
Arctiade.
Acantharctia rubrifemora, sp. n.
Head, face, thorax, abdomen, and both wings pure white ; legs white, with bright red femora above. Primaries with all the veins edged with pale greyish brown. Secondaries spotless.
Expanse 45 mm.
Hab. Damba Island, Uganda.
Type in the Oxford Museum. Bred by Dr. Carpenter, June 25, 1911, from a larva which spun June 9.
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Lymantride. Lelia rogersi, sp. n.
@. Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy grey. Primaries pale ochreous grey, with three parallel, oblique, wavy darker lines; basal area paler grey. Secondaries subhyaline whitish, without any marks.
Expanse 35 mm.
Hab. Fort Hall (Kikuyu), B.E. Africa.
Type in the Oxford Museum. Taken by the Rev. K. St. A. Rogers on March 20, 1907.
Lelia acuta, sp. n.
9. Head and thorax pale rufous brown ; abdomen dirty cream-grey. Primaries pale rufous brown, somewhat paler on the fold and in the postmedian area, the ‘only mark being an obscure dark greyish oblique stripe from the costa close to the apex to near the middle of the cell. Secondaries pale straw-colour.
Expanse 86 mm.
Hab. Damba Island, Uganda.
Type in the Oxford Museum. Bred Sept. 24, 1911, from a larva found by Dr. Carpenter.
Cifuna nigroplagata, sp. n.
9. Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings dull cinnamon- brown. Primaries with a large blackish patch at the end of the cell extending to the costa; from the angle of vein 3 an obscure trace of an oblique darker stripe to the middle of the inner margin ; a trace of a submarginal irregular line, with some dark points in the upper radial portion ; fringes darkly intersected. Secondaries with an obscure dark dash closing the cell ; a submarginal indefinite irregular band of darker shading ; fringes unicolorous.
Expanse 36 mm.
Hab. Damba Island, Uganda.
Type in the Oxford Museum. Bred July 12, 1911, from a larva found by Dr. Carpenter. The cocoon was spun
July 1. Dasychira geoffrey?, sp. n. 3 2. Head and thorax grey, very finely irrorated with
brownish ; abdomen ochreous grey. Primaries pale ochreous grey, with fine brown irorations sparsely spread in the cell
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and fold, very thick on the costa and beyond the cell in the costal area, but less thick on the terminal area; a trace of a basal irregular line; a darkly outlined spot closing the cell, with a crenulate postmedian fine dark line ; termen and fringes darkly spotted. Secondaries ochreous grey, becoming greyer towards the termen.
Ixpanse, ¢ 38, ¢ 50 mm.
Hab. Damba Island, Uganda.
Types in the Oxford Museum. Bred from larvee found by Dr. Carpenter. First cocoon was spun May 4, 1911; the first emergence occurred May 17-18.
There is one specimen much more prominently and darkly marked, so that it is possible there may be a fair range of variation with this species, as is the case with some others of the genus.
Dasychira umbrensis, sp. v.
3 ¢. Head, thorax, abdomen, and both wings dull darkish brown, of a mottled appearance, with very little definite marking. Primaries with three dark dots at the lower angle of the cell arranged in an inverted triangle ; an obscure, dark, irregular, strongly serrate postmedian line ; a series of submarginal interneural dark spots ; fringes spotted in both wings. Secondaries uniform in colour,
Eixpanse, ¢ 43, 9 48 mm.
Hab. Damba Island, Uganda.
Types in the Oxford Museum. Bred from larve found by Dr. Carpenter. First cocoon was spun July 15, 1911, and the first moth emerged July 26.
Dasychira carpentert, sp. n.
g. Primaries very pale grey, with a dark basal line, highly dentate ; a double irregular median line, enclosing a whitish space in which is a dark dot; the outer line is highly scal- loped ; beyond this is another interrupted serrate line; cell closed by a dark crescent, with a small spot in the crescent, above which and slightly further out is a dark costal patch, followed by a double crenulate postmedian line ; termen with an irregular series of dark spots; the wing is dusted a good deal with very fine brownish scales. Secondaries straw- - yellow, with a broad darkish border tapering down to the anal angle.
@. Similar to the male, but darker grey, with the lines less prominent and with the crescent-shaped mark closing the cell developed into a fair-sized spot.
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66 On new Species of African Heterocera.
Expanse, ¢ 40, 2 50 mm.
Hab. Damba Island, Uganda.
Types in the Oxford Museum.
The male and female were captured in copulé by Dr.G. D. H. Carpenter in the first half of June, 1911, on the shore on the E. side of Damba Island. Dr. Carpenter has also bred a series of seven specimens from Jarvee taken on Damba Island. Cocoons were first spun June 3, 1911, and the first moth emerged June 13. Three specimens, apparently of this species, exist unnamed in the British Museum. The locality given is Ilesha, N. Nigeria.
Agaristide. Schausia flavifrons, sp. n.
&. Both wings black, with white patches. Primaries with a white basal point; a small white subovate patch in the cell; a large, long, oblong postmedian patch ; a leaden basal stripe; a very oblique leaden stripe across the hinder third of the cell; cell closed with a leaden crescent ; an oblique leaden subapical stripe and a trace of one below the costa. Secondaries with a large subhyaline white central patch to well beyond the cell. Palpi, frons, collar, and pectus bright orange.
Expanse 48 mm.
Hab. Mombasa.
Type in the Oxford Museum. Collected by the Rev. K. St. A. Rogers on March 13, 1906.
Lasiocampide.
Gastroplakeis idakum, sp. n.
@. Head, face, and terminal segments of abdomen pale orange-grey ; thorax and abdomen pale ochreous grey, the latter being the paler. Primaries pale ochreous grey, irro- rated finely with darker grey ; costa finely ashen grey, with an enlarged ashen area in front of the apex ; a trace of a fine grey, crenulate, median line ; the fine, very oblique, crenulate postmedian line is grey, and is followed by an irregular very oblique line of grey shading; a blackish spot closes the cell. Secondaries unitorm pale straw-colour.
Expanse 60 mm.
Hab. Idakun, 4 miles N.W. of Oni Camp (Lagos district).
Type in the Oxford Museum. The larve were found by W. A. Lamborn on the 2nd of February, 1912; they spun
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their cocoons on the 7th, and emerged on the 23rd of March in that year.
Mr. Lamborn’s note, dated 24th March, 1912, is as follows :—“The larve were pale green in colour, with a median longitudinal black band on the dorsal aspect, and they were covered with short hairs. The thoracic legs were brilliant scarlet. When one touched a larva it suddenly threw back the anterior portion of its body, bringing the ventral surface uppermost, so that the legs were prominently displayed. They were then quivered violently.”
Three larvee, all of the same age, were found on one small plant, growing at the side of a forest-path.
Zygenide. Saliunca egeria, sp. n.
3. Head, antennz, thorax, and abdomen black ; patagia chestnut-brown. Primaries chestnut-brown, rather darker on the fold and towards the termen ; a long, dusky, wedge-shaped mark between veins 5 and 8, rapidly tapering through the cell. Secondaries uniform sooty brown.
Expanse 30 mm.
Hab. Bugalla, Sesse Islands, in the N.W. of the Victoria Nyanza.
Type in the Oxford Museum.
This specimen, the only one seen by Dr. Carpenter, was captured at rest on a grass-stem, Jan. 21, 1912, in an open grassy area on the island. Dr, Carpenter notes that at rest the wings are disposed flat over the back, with costal margins [? inner margins] loosely apposed. In this attitude the moth closely resembles some of the Lycid beetles which are common on the island.
VII.—Descriptions of Four new Fishes discovered by Mr. G. L. Bates in the Nyong River, S. Cameroon. By G. A. Bou.enGcer, F.R.S.
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
Clarias oxycephalus.
Depth of body 6 times in total length, length of head 42 times. Head 13 times as long as broad, tapering in front, 5*
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snout obtusely pointed, upper surface smooth; occipital process angular, as long as broad; frontal fontanelle twice as long as broad, larger than the occipital fontanelle, which is anterior to the occipital process; eye 3 times in length of snout, 41 times in interorbital width, which exceeds width of mouth and is ? length of head; band of pizmaxillary teeth 34 times as long as broad; vomerine teeth conical, forming a crescentic band which, in the middle, is a little broader than the premaxillary band. Nasal barbel as long as head ; maxillary barbel 1? times as long as head, reaching beyond ectoral ; inner mandibular barbel 2 length of head, outer 14.
Gill-rakers thick, 16 in number. Clavicles striated, covered with a thin skin. Dorsa) 100, its distance from occipital process 4 length of head, very narrowly separated from caudal. Anal 75, very narrowly separated from caudal. Pectoral 4 length of head, the spine serrated on both sides and 3 the length of the fin. Ventral 13 times as distant from caudal as from end of snout. Caudal 4 length of head. Uniform olive.
Total length 225 mm.
A single specimen.
‘his new species is to be placed near C. wernert, Bler., from which it differs principally in the more pointed snout.
Auchenoglanis longiceps.
Depth of body 6 times in total length, length of head 31 times. Head moderately depressed, nearly twice as long as broad, its upper surface smooth ; occipital process small, longer than broad, well separated from the feebly developed interneural plate ; snout pointed, a little more than } length of head ; eye supero-lateral, 8 times in length of head, 23 times in interorbital width ; mouth small, inferior, with thick papillose lips; preemaxillary teeth in a small reniform group. Maxillary and inner mandibular barbels not quite } length of head, outer mandibular nearly as long as head. Gill-rakers moderately long, 6 on lower part of anterior arch. Humeral process narrow, pointed, smooth. Dorsal I 7; spine strong, smooth, 2 length of head; longest rays ? length of head. Adipose dorsal 5 times as long as deep, nearly twice as long as its distance from rayed dorsal, not extending to root of caudal. Anal 12 (8 rays branched). Pectoral not reaching ventral, ventral not reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Brownish, with round black spots forming four longitudinal series on the body; belly white ; dorsal and caudal fins with uumerous round black spots,
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Total length 200 mm.
A single specimen,
Distinguished from A. ballay?, Sauv., by the longer, narrower head.
Synodontis steindachneri.
Depth of body 4 times in total length, length of head 3} times. Head 1} times as long as broad, rugose above behind snout, which is obtusely pointed and as long as post- ocular part of head ; eye supero-lateral, 5 times in length of head, 1} times in interorbital width ; lips moderately deve- loped; premaxillary teeth forming a short and broad band; movable mandibular teeth 2 diameter of eye, 25 in number. Maxillary barbel with a broad marginal membrane at base, as long as head, reaching a little beyond base of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel about twice as long as inner, former with long slender branches, latter with ramified branches. Giull-openings not extending downwards beyond root of pectoral spine. Occipito-nuchal shield rough like the occiput, very obtusely tectiform, 1} times as long as broad, with rounded posterior processes. Humeral process acutely pointed, longer than broad, granulate, without keel, extending as far back as occipito-nuchal process, Dorsal 17; spine as long as head, feebly curved, striated, with feebly retrorse serre in front in its upper part, strongly serrated behind, Adipose dorsal 3 times as long as deep, as long as its distance from rayed dorsal. Anal LV 6, obtusely pointed in front. Pectoral spine slightly shorter than dorsal, not reaching ventral, strongly serrated on outer border, very strongly on inner. Caudal deeply forked, upper lobe the longer. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Dark olive-brown, body finely speckled with black.
Total length 150 mm.
A single specimen.
This species, named in honour of Dr. Steindachner, who has quite recently contributed to our knowledge of the fishes of Cameroon, is allied to S, obesus, Blgr., and S. robbi- anus, J. A. Smith, but distinguished from both by the shorter maxillary barbel and the shorter adipose fin.
Pelmatochromis caudifasciatus. Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3 to 32
times in total length. Head twice as long as broad ; snout rounded, with convex upper profile, a little broader than long, as long as or slightly longer than eye, which is 34 to 34
70 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on Two closely allied
times in length of head, 1 to 1} times in interorbital width, and a little exceeds preorbital depth ; mouth extending to between nostril and eye; teeth small, in 3 or 4 series, 40 to 60 in outer series of upper jaw; 3 or 4 series of scales on the cheek, width of scaly part a little less than diameter of eye. Gill-rakers short, tubercular, 7 to 9 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIV-XVI 9-11; spines increasing in length to the last, which measures 2 to $ length of head; longest soft rays shorter than head. Anal III 7-8 ; third spine as long as last dorsal. Pectoral 2 to ¢ length of head, not reaching origin of anal. Ventral produced into a fila- ment, reaching vent, origin of anal, or a little beyond. Caudal rounded. Caudal pedunele a little deeper than long. Scales cycloid, 27-29 =** ; lateral lines +. Brown above, yellowish beneath ; a more or less distinct dark band from the eye to the root of the caudal, crossed by 7 to 9 rather faint dark bars, which expand into round black spots where they meet the lateral band on the caudal part of the body ; dorsal with round dark spots and a black and white edge ; anal with round dark spots, which often form oblique bands ; caudal with numerous dark bars, the upper rays with a black and white edge ; ventrals white.
Total length 105 mm.
Several specimens. Also obtained by Mr. Bates in the Ja and Bumbe Rivers.
Very closely allied to P. nigrofasciatus, Pellegr. Distin- guished by fewer gill-rakers and by the coloration.
VIITl.— On the Presence of Two closely allied Species of Toads of the Genus Nectophryne in Cameroon. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S.
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
A FEW years ago Mr. G. L. Bates pointed out to me that two distinct though very closely allied species of Nectophryne occur together near Bitye, and are to be distinguished by the shape of the snout. I felt some diffidence at first in pro- posing a new name for the individuals differing from Peters’s figure of VV. afra by the shorter and less prominent snout; but a considerable number of specimens since received from Mr. Bates compel me to endorse his opinion that the Bitye specimens should be referred to two species ; the short-snouted
Species of Toads of the Genus Nectophryne. 71
requires a name, than which one recalling its discoverer could not be more appropriate.
The outline-figures here given sufficiently indicate the difference between the two species. The snout of N. datesti, sp. n., is shorter than that of JV. afra, and, seen from below, projects far less considerably beyond the- mouth; seen in profile, it is much less obliquely truncate. I have failed to detect any other differences, but I note that the markings are subject to much less variation in N. batesii than in N. afra, and that the belly and the lower surface of the limbs are always uniform yellow or yellowish white, brown spots or
Head of Nectophryne afra. Head of Nectophryne batesiz.
marblings, if present, being confined to the throat and breast. Upper parts pale pinkish brown to dark brown, with three or four more or less distinct darker blotches on the head and back, one of which often forms a bar on the sacral region; sides of back often lighter ; a dark band on the loreal and temporal regions ; hind limbs sometimes with ill-defined dark cross-bands. ‘The largest specimen measures 25 mm. from snout to vent.
N. batesii is only known from the neighbourhood of Bitye, on the Ja River (Congo System), where JV. afra is also common. Of the latter species I have examined speci- mens from Spanish Guinea, Cameroon (Kribi, Akok, Efulen, Zima Country, Bitye), Fernando Po, and Southern Nigeria (Oban hills).
Bearing in mind that some of the East-African species of Nectophryne are known to be viviparous, I have opened several females of both N. afra and N. batesii, the belly of which was distended with ripe ova; these, of enormously large size (24 mm. in specimens measuring 20 to 25 mm. from snout to vent), showed, however, no sign of development. Mr. Bates has sent me a specimen, a female JZ. batesii with
72 On a new Snake from Eastern Peru.
empty oviducts, found by him at Bitye, Aug. 12, 1909, under the trough or hollow of a plantain-leaf petiole, crouched in the midst of a mass of eggs. It is therefore pretty certain that this species is not viviparous, and that the eggs develop on land without the young passing through a larval stage.
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1X.—Description of a new Snake discovered by Mr. A. E. Pratt in Eastern Peru. By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S.
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
Leptognathus latifasciatus.
Body strongly compressed. ye large, its diameter double its distance from the oral border. Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above ; internasals half as long as the prefrontals; frontal slightly broader-than long, shorter than its distance from the end of the snout, half as long as the parietals ; nasal divided; loreal as long as deep, bordering the eye; a preocular, separating the prefrontal from the eye; two postoculars ; temporals 243 or 1+3; nine upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye; first two pairs of lower labials forming a suture behind the symphysial; three pairs of chin-shields, nearly as long as broad. Scales in 15 rows, vertebrals strongly enlarged, but not broader than long. Ventrals 191 ; anal entire 3 subcaudals 106. Anterior part of body with broad blackish-brown annuli separated by cream-coloured inter- spaces two scales in width ; further back the blackish annuli are interrupted on the belly, and towards the posterior part of the body they become narrower and white-edged, separated by broad reddish-brown interspaces ; belly closely speckled and spotted with blackish-brown, uniform brown behind ; head dark brown above, with yellowish dots and vermicular lines; upper lip with narrow white vertical bars,
Total length 430 mm. ; tail 125.
A single specimen, from the Upper Marafion.
Closely allied to ZL. peruana, Boettg., and L. variegata, D>. eu,
This is the second species of Leptognathus discovered by Mr. Pratt, a L. pratti, from the Andes of Colombia, having been described by me in these ‘ Annals’ in 1897.
On an Abnormality in Echinus esculentus. 73
X.—WNote on an interesting Abnormality in Echiuus escu- lentus. By Hersert L. Hawkins, M.Sc., F.G.S., Lecturer in Geology, University College, Reading.
Durine the preparation of a series of young Echini collected at Port Erin, Isle of Man, a small specimen of EL. esculentus was found with an abnormal development of considerable interest. Abnormalities often give indications of morpho- logical features that are not apparent in normal cases— a fact that has been shown recently by Jackson (‘ Phylogeny of the Echini,’ Boston, 1912). He gives an analysis of the various types of abnormality commonly found, and the case here described seems to correspond with his “progressive” series.
The specimen is not quite circular—this disturbance of symmetry being a frequent indication of some more deep- seated irregularity. The peristome is not central, although neither in this case nor in that of the ambital outline is the departure from the normal very noticeable. The diameters of the test, taken from the middles of the ambulacra to the middles of the opposite interambulacra, are :—
mm,
Siar sheep arsine Quin ha sip ie 24:75 BY se 9 ates Norma dials are Bes 24:0 WE ae Catrncee meres woo 24:5 TS es Se rs Sabha has he 5 24:0 Mina State Wakt Gea etistire Ske 24°25
The distance of the peristome from the ambitus is 7°5 mm. in area 3 and 6°5 mm. in I.
From the adapical surface no special irregularity (other than the elliptical outline) can be seen, the apical system being perfectly normal. An adcral view shows that inter- ambulacrum 3 is very narrow at the peristome-margin, ambulacra III. and LV. almost meeting across it. A closer examination shows that the interambulacrum is composed of a single plate at the peristomial end. All the other four areas are normally double throughout.
In all Regular Echinoids whose early postlarval develop- ment is known the interambulacra originate as single plates, This was admirably shown by Lovén for Cidaris (‘ Echino- logica,’ 1892). The single plate is early lost by resorption. It might be thought, therefore, that in interambulacrum 3 of this specimen the primitive plate had not been resorbed in the usual way. But this seems not to be the case. A
74 Mr. H. L. Hawkins on an interesting
comparison of the plans of the two neighbouring areas with that of the area affected (fig. 1) shows that in all three there are the same number of plates in each column (if the single one is counted as belonging to both columns). Supposing that the single interambulacral only has been resorbed in the
Fig. 1.
Plans of one abnormal and two normal interambulacral areas of Echinus esculentus.
Part of perignathic girdle of abnormal Echinus esculentus,
normal areas, then the abnormal area must have developed two such plates in succession, one having been lost in due course. Such a development might be regarded as arrested (towards Bothriocidaris) or progressive (towards some ad- vanced Spatangoids). In view of the effect of the abnor-
Abnormality in Echinus esculentus. 75
mality on the perignathic girdle, I am inclined to refer it to the latter category.
There is no further abnormality in interambulacrum 3, as a comparison of the tuberculation of the three areas (fig. 1) shows.
The most interesting feature of the specimen is the effect produced by the abnormality on the perignathic girdle. When the specimen was cut in half, the girdle showed the features indicated in fig. 2. The two ambulacral processes of the auricles bordering on interambulacrum 3 have coalesced in the absence of the separating ridge, the joint product showing traces of amedian suture. The other two processes of the auricles affected are practically normal, but do not meet their fused fellows quite regularly, though connected to them.
At first sight the compound “ process” derived from the two fused auricular elements suggests a comparison with the interradial auricle of Cidaris. There can, however, be no doubt that this resemblance is deceptive. Both sides rise chiefly from the ambulacra, thus being true “ processes” in the sense of Duncan, as distinct from ridges. But they both rest im part on the single interambulacral plate, on to which they have apparently transgressed from the ambulacra.
Now in the Clypeastroida the first single interambulacral plate is retained throughout life (in the absence of any important peristomial resorption), and the auricle is inter- radial in position. H.L. Clark has recently shown that the apparently single auricle of Echinocyamus is in reality a double structure, composed of two species which seem to have migrated from an ambulacral position. Here, then, in an area of Echinus in which a single plate is abnormally retained, we find developed a perignathic structure which is strictly comparable with that of the far more highly specialized Clypeastroida, The abnormality is thus clearly shown to be progressive in tendency.
It is fairly certain that Hchinus is in no way ancestral to the Clypeastroids, although in many respects it resembles their ancestors more than they. Echinus is then, in many structures, retarded in evolution when compared with the accelerated features of Echinocyamus. We find in this specimen that an accidental similarity in one structure between two originally homogenetic but widely divergent groups gives rise to a corresponding convergence of character in another structure. This fact lends support to the view I have recently put forward (Geol Mag., May 1913) that the
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evolution of structure is often to some degree independent of that of the complete organism.
Unfortunately the lantern was destroyed before the interest of the specimen was appreciated.
The specimen is now in the Zoological Museum of University College, Reading (registered no. 535).
XI.—Descriptions of new Species belonging to the Homo- pterous Family Cicadide. By W. L. Distant.
Toba bequaerti, sp. n.
Head, pronotum, and mesonotum olivaceous; head with the area of the ocelli connected with the lateral margins by an oblique fascia, and a spot at anterior angles before front black; pronotum with two central spots (one on anterior margin, the other on inner edge of broad posterior margin), the fissures, and a basal spot to the lateral angulated ex- pansions; mesonotum with two small obconical spots on anterior margin, and a central elongate spot black ; abdomen above testaceous, first and second segments almost entirely and basal margins of remaining segments piceous ; body beneath more or less olivaceous; a large transverse spot connecting face with eyes, apex of face, clypeus, about apical half of rostrum, tarsi, and central transverse segmental spots to abdomen black ; tegmina semiopaque, talc-like, base to a little beyond basal cell fuscous, thence to about basal third greyish opaque, the veins brownish ochraceous or violaceous, transverse veins at bases of apical areas and a double series of small spots near apices of apical veins fuscous, a trans- verse fuscous spot at apex of and beyond radial area, the costal membrane more or less virescent; wings palely greyishly opaque, the basal and apical areas fuscous, the veins greyish, the membrane pale hyaline; head frontally produced, not truncate, above about as long as pronotum (excluding its posterior margin), longitudinally impressed on the area of the ocelli, prominently pilose before front and behind eyes; pronotum with its lateral margins medially angularly expanded, the angular apices reaching nearly to the apices of basal cells of tegmina; rostrum reaching the posterior coxe ; opercula slightly overlapping internally, not extending beyond base of abdomen; posterior tibiz longly
spinulose.
new Species of Cicadidse. 77
Long., excl. tegm., 3, 27 mm.; exp. tegm. 80 mm.
Hab. Belgian Congo, Sankisia (Dr. Bequaert, Mus. Congo Belge).
Allied to I. horizontalis, Karsch, from which it differs by the less produced and less angulate lateral pronotal margins, the narrower, more elongate, “and attenuate tegmina, &e.
Munza sudanensis, sp. n.
Head with the front and vertex piceous, the basal margin of the latter ochraceous ; pronotum ochraceous, a central longitudinal fascia, which is widened at base and apex, and the fissures piceous or black; mesonotum ochraceous, with four obconical spots on anterior margin, of which the two central ones are moderate in size and the outermost ones much the longest, the area in front of the cruciform elevation and the apical angles of the latter piceous or black ; abdomen above pale fuscous, with a central longitudinal testaceous fascia and the extreme posterior segmental margins ochra- ceous, abdomen beneath without the central fascia ; sternum, legs, and opercula ochraceous ; face ochraceous, its anterior area and a central longitudinal fascia black and with two contiguous ochraceous spots at anterior margin; rostrum reaching the abdominal margin, its apex black; tegmina fuscous brown, about apical half of radial area, the centres of two upper ulnar areas and spots to remaining ulnar areas, an oblique macular fascia crossing apical areas, and spots on apical margin greyish white, semiopaque, and talc-like ; wings ochraceous, their apical and posterior margins fuscous, the membrane hyaline ; head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotum, not frontally produced, more or less truncate ; outer and posterior membranal margin to wings broad, about one-third their length ; opercula in male reaching base of abdomen, their margins rounded, their inner angles not meeting but distinctly separate.
Long., excl. tegm., ¢, 18 mm.; exp. tegm. 50 mm.
Hab. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Benemana River, Yei to Meredi, Lado District (Brit. Mus.).
Allied to M, basimacula, Walk., but with the opercula distinctly separated, not overlapping as in Walker’s species ; pattern of tegmina also different.
Platypleura schoutedent, sp. n. Head, pronotum, and mesonotum ochraceous, with black markings ; head with two transverse fascize, one above the insertions of the antenne, the other between the upper
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margins of the eyes and including the area of the ocelli, and the hind margins to the eyes; pronotum with the anterior and subposterior margins, 2 central longitudinal fascia, and the fissures ; mesonotum with four obconical spots, the two central ones of which are smallest and the two lateral ones largest, and a large cruciform spot in front of the cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen above black, the posterior seg- mental margins narrowly ochraceous; head beneath and sternum ochraceous, with black markings; a _ transverse fascia between the eyes crossing upper area of face, central sulcation to face, lateral areas of clypeus, and base of pro- sternum black ; opercula and abdomen beneath piceous, the posterior segmental margins ochraceous; tegmina semi- hyaline, talc-like, basal area (including basal cell), an oblique fascia at about one-fourth from base, a more curved fascia near middle, a short inwardly oblique fascia before apex, and a double series of small obscure spots near the apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas pitchy black ; wings fulvous, the veins on posterior area and a broad outer margin not reaching the outer membrane, black ; rostrum with its apex piceous and slightly passing the posterior coxe; opercula slightly extending beyond anterior margin of basal abdominal segment at its lateral angles, lateral and posterior margins oblique, their interior angles rather strongly overlapping ; face broadly, centrally, longitudinally sulcate, the lateral areas strongly transversely striate.
Long., excl. tegm., ¢ 23, 9 19 mm.; exp. tegm., ¢ 70, 2 65 mm.
Hab. Belgian Congo Region, Kalengwe and Sankisia (Dr. Bequaert, Congo and Brit. Muss.).
Allied to P. severini, Dist., and P. laticeps, Karsch.
Var.—Resembling typical P. schoutedeni, but differing principally in the coloration of the wings, in which the black outer margin is much broader, the base also of the same colour, thus restricting the fulvous coloration to a quad- rangular discal spot ; the tegmina have the spots near the apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas larger and more distinct.
Brit. Centr. Africa; Zomba (H. S. Stannus, Brit. Mus.).
Platypleura seraphina.
Platypleura seraphina, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1905, p. 193.
I described this species from a specimen received from French Guinea, the type of which is in the Paris Museum. The British Museum now possesses a specimen taken in
Uganda (Polebek) by Mr. W. P. Lowe.
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Platypleura maritzburgensis, sp. n.
Head, pronotum, and mesonotum brownish ochraceous ; eyes black; mesonotum with four obconical spots, the central pair shortest ; abdomen above black, a central longi- tudinal fascia (widest at base) brownish ochraceous, apical segment greyish ; body beneath and legs brownish ochra- ceous, the opercula cretaceously tomentose ; tegmina opaque, greyish brown, with darker mottlings, basal area more brownish ochraceous, costal membrane ochraceous, an ill- defined, obscure, greyish macular fascia commencing at middle of upper ulnar area and terminating on lower apical area ; wings brownish ochraceous, outer membrane greyish, the apex and outer margin piceous ; pronotal lateral margins rounded, not angulate; rostrum reaching the posterior coxe, its apex black ; face broadly but not deeply longitu- dinally centrally sulcate, its lateral areas transversely ridged ; opercula in ¢ almost meeting internally, their lateral and posterior margins rounded.
Long., excl. tegm., ¢, 15 mm.; exp. tegm. 44 mm.
Hab. Natal; Maritzburg (Z. Warren, Natal and Brit. Muss.).
Allied to P. deusta, Thunb.
Platypleura nigrosignata, sp. n.
Head, pronotum, and mesonotum pale ochraceous; head with a transverse fascia between the eyes, basal margin of front, inner margins of eyes, and a linear marginal spot to vertex above the insertion of antenne black; pronotum with the sublateral margins and three small central spots—one near anterior margin and two near posterior margin—black ; mesonotum with four obconical spots, of which the central two are smallest, a central longitudinal lanceolate spot, and a rounded spot at anterior angles of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen above black, with greyish and ochraceous pile, tympanal coverings fulvous; body beneath thickly greyishly pilose; anterior margin of head between face and eyes, face, and abdomen beneath black, the transverse facial ridges, coxe, legs, rostrum, opercula, and posterior segmental margins more or less ochraceous; tegmina more or less fulvous, a transverse fascia beyond middle, and a subapical patch a little darker; these dark markings are margined with greyish, basal cell shining Slack ; wings ochraceous, a discal fascia crossing the bases of the upper five apical areas and the apical and posterior margins castaneous; head
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80 On new Species of Cicadidee.
somewhat short and broad; face profoundly centrally longitudinally sulcate, the transverse ridges prominent ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxe, its apex black; oper- cula not passing base of abdomen, meeting at their inner angles, lateral and apical margins oblique, the former mode- rately sinuate.
Long., excl. tegm., 3 20 mm.; exp. tegm. 60 mm.
Hab. Indo-China (R. Vitalis).
Allied to P. mira, Dist., from Laos.
Champaka celebensis, sp. 1.
Body above shining castaneous brown, more or less ochra- ceously pilose ; area of the ocelli black; pronotum with a central longitudinal fascia (widened anteriorly and poste- riorly) and the fissures dark castaneous, the. lateral and basal marginal areas somewhat olivaceous ; mesonotum with four obscure dark obconical spots, the central two smallest ; abdomen with an obscure, central, longitudinal, narrow, pilose fascia ; head beneath, sternum, and opercula dull, Opaque, ochraceous ; face and legs castaneous, femora black or dark castaneous, their apices, and the basal area of the anterior femora ochraceous ; abdomen beneath shining, brownish ochraceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the vena- tion more or less olivaceous ; tegmina with the extreme base, basal cell, and costal membrane more or less olivaceous, the transverse veins at the bases of second, third, fifth, and seventh apical areas, and the posterior longitudinal vein to seventh apical area broadly darkly infuscate ; head (including eyes) considerably wider than base of mesonotum ; abdomen long, length of head equal to space between eyes; rostrum slightly passing the posterior coxte ; opercula almost reaching the posterior margins of the second abdominal segment, attenuated towards apices, which are roundly subacute, widely separated internally; anterior femora with two long and strong spines and a shorter spine near apex.
Long., excl. tegm., ¢, 53-60 mm.; exp. tegm. 135- 140 mm.
Hab. N.W. Celebes.
Allied to C. viridimaculata, Dist., but differing by the larger opercula, different maculation to the tegmina, and absence of the green basal coloration to same, &c.
Two specimens are in theeBrit. Mus., presented by Dr. de Giacomi.
On new Species of Histeridee. 81
Huechys fascialis, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. i. p- 142 (1859).
The type of this species has not been found in the British Museum. ‘The collection of which it formed part originally belonged to Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, though it afterwards passed into the National Collection. Even now I cannot exactly determine it, though we possess a series of specimens from Borneo that nearly answer to the description and which I think must be taken as representing it. But in these the abdomen is piceous brown, not black, and with the segmental margins pale testaceous. The front, face, and mesonotal spots are ochraceous rather than testaceous as described.
XII.—On new Species of Histeride and Notices of others. By G. Lewis, F.L.S.
[Plate II.]
Tuis is the thirty-ninth paper of this series, and as the types of the Histeridee described by the late Rev. T. Blackburn are now in the Natural History Museum I have been able to give figures of four very interesting Australian species. Of the genus Chlamydopsis and its allies there are now twenty-nine species known.
List of Species, arranged generically.
Hister omar. Pheidoliphila sternalis, Blackd.
Atholus ruptistrius. Chlamydopsis inquilina, Lew,
Pachycrerus curtistriatus. — comata, Blackb. punctipennis. ineequalis, Blackb.
Aristomorphus, gen, nov. —— pygidialis, Blackb. rutilus, —— papue.
Hetzerius carinistrius. Saprinus felipe.
Fister omar, sp. n.
Breviter ovatus, convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte obscure punctu- lata, stria integra, antice bisinuata; thorace stria marginali integra, stria laterali utrinque abbreviata; elytris striis 1-4 integris, 5-6 ultra medium abbreviatis ; propygidio pygidioque minutissime punctulatis; prosterno antice obtuse acuminato ; mesosterno fere recto, stria tenuiter impressa; tibiis anticis 4-dentatis,
L. 43 mill.
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Shortly oval, convex, black, and shining; forehead ob- scurely punctulate, with two shallow impressions close to the stria, stria complete and bisinuous anteriorly ; the thorax, marginal stria fine and complete, lateral stria well marked, shortened before the base, and anteriorly hamate and ceasing behind the anterior angle; the elytra, subhumeral stria wanting, 1-4 dorsal complete, 5 reaches just beyond the middle, 6 is a little longer ; the pygidia have microscopic punctures, with some of a larger grade intermixed ; the pro- sternum, anterior lobe bistriate and obtusely acuminate at its point and slightly bent downwards; the mesosternum is anteriorly nearly straight, but slightly prominent in the middle, the marginal stria is complete but very fine; the anterior tibis, apical tooth very robust and minutely bifid at the apex, with three minute teeth behind it; the other tibie are multispinous.
The lateral stria of the thorax in this species is a marked characteristic ; it may be placed near H. terremotus, Lew.
Hab. Madura, 8S. India.
Atholus ruptistrius, sp. 0.
Ovalis, convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte biimpressa, stria integra retrorsum angulata; pronoto stria marginali antice late inter- rupta, stria interna pone oculos interrupta ; elytris striis integris, 5 cum suturali connexa; propygidio haud dense punctato ; meso- sterno truncato, marginato; tibiis anticis 3-dentatis.
L, 4 mill.
Oval, convex, black, and shining; the forehead, surface punctulate, with two shallow impressions behind the stria, stria acuminate in the middle; the thorax irregularly pune- tured at the anterior angles within the stria, marginal stria ceases behind the eyes, lateral stria is markedly broken behind the eyes, but it is continued in a straight line with roughened edges behind the head, towards the base the stria is feebly sinuous and the interstice somewhat widens; the elytra, stri, inner subhumeral dimidiate and apical, the dorsal striz are all complete, 5 and sutural join anteriorly ; the pygidia are clearly but not closely punctate ; the pro- sternal keel is narrow; the mesosternum is truncate and the stria complete; the anterior tibiz 3-dentate.
The form of the inner thoracic stria distinguishes this species from its congeners coalescens, 14-striatus, and others. he inner stria resembles that drawn by Marseul for Platy- soma carolinum, Mon. pl. vii. fig. 14 (1853), but the stria is
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not interrupted in carolinum as figured by Marseul; Paykull’s figure, Mon. pl. x. fig. 2, is good and correct. Hab. Uganda, Central Africa.
Pachycrerus curtistriatus, sp. n.
Ovalis, parum convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte impressa, stria integra; pronoto lateribus punctato, stria marginali antice late interrupta ; elytris, striis 1-3 integris, 4 et suturali dimidiatis, 5 fere dimidiata; propygidio pygidioque punctatis; prosterno striis brevissimis ; mesosterno antice marginato.
L. 33 mill.
Oval, a little convex, black, and shining ; the head very finely punctulate, frontal stria complete, with a shallow im- pression behind it; the thorax, marginal stria fine and not continuing behind the head, punctured laterally with some large points and some very fine, disc with only the fine points ; the elytra, strize 1-3 complete, 4 and sutural dimi- diate, the fourth has a basal linear appendage, 5 is rather shorter than the fourth ; the pygidia are rather coarsely and somewhat closely punctured ; the prosternum, striz short and only intercoxal; the mesosternum is distinctly bordered ; the anterior tibiz are 5—6-denticulate.
This species is the only one known which has short pro- sternal intercoxal strie.
fab. Zambise (H. Swale).
Pachycrerus punctipennis, sp. ni.
Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, niger, nitidus; fronte impressa; pro- noto punctato, stria marginali integra; elytris striis 1-4 integris, 5 nulla, suturali integra basi hamata, disco punctato; propygidio haud dense punctato ; tibiis anticis 5—6-dentatis,
L. 3 mill.
Oblong-oval, convex, black, and shining; the forehead impressed in the middle behind the stria, stria well marked at the sides, anteriorly it is sinuous and not so clearly defined, on the surface anteriorly there are a few microscopic points and along the base of the head there are large scattered punctures ; the thorax is evenly not closely punctate, mar- ginal stria complete, behind the head the stria is fine and irregularly crenate; the elytra, strie 1-4 complete, with more or less crenate edges, and the fourth is punctiform in the apical half, 5 is wanting, sutural is complete and hamate at the base, turning away from the scutellum, the interstice
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between the fourth and sutural stria is markedly punctate, some of the punctures are lineal in their arrangement and may represent the fifth stria ; the pygidia are distinctly and evenly but not very closely punctate ; the prosternum, striz are almost parallel, but widen out very slightly to the base, joining anteriorly only; the mesosternum, marginal stria complete and rather fine, at the basal angles of the meta- sternum there is a cluster of punctures; the anterior tibiz are 5—6-dentate.
The dorsal punctuation of this species is its most distinctive character ; in outline it resembles P. modestus, Lew.
Hab. Nyasaland.
ARISTOMORPHUS, gen. nov.
Corpus oblongum, subdepressum ; caput declivum, fronte a clypeo haud distincta, antice late emarginata; pronotum antice angus- tatum, fossa antennali sub angulo ; elytra striatis, angulis antice prominentibus ; prosternum compressum prominulum haud stria- tum, lobo antico acuminato; mesosternum breve, pedibus sat longis, spinulosis, fossa tarsali fere recta.
Aristomorphus rutilus, sp. n. (Pl. II. fig. 7.)
Oblong, piceous, highly polished, slightly convex above ; legs reddish brown ; the head is declivous, forehead, anterior edge (? clypeus) is widely emarginate, with the angles obtuse and the margin thickened and microscopically rugose, vertex is grooved and pitted and has a median tuft of flavous bristles ; the thorax is narrowest anteriorly, lateral edges with strong flavous bristles, anterior margin has a very fine stria close to the edge, behind it is a second stria which is fine and close to the marginal stria behind the head, but the interstice widens out behind the thoracic angles and is more marked and punctiform, the anterior angles of the thorax are produced similarly to those noted on the head, the base has a fine stria which is close to the edge opposite the scu- tellum, but gradually leaves it, forming an inverted arch until its ends are lost in the basal depressions, there are two very shallow impressions behind the eyes and two near the basal angles of irregular outline, and there is a longitudinal cluster of small punctures behind the middle of the neck; the elytra, inner humeral stria very fine and complete, first dorsal well marked and bending inwards towards the base, 2 or 3 sinuous in the dorsal area, and all have wide inter- stices and are finely punctate in the apical half, and the
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interstices are obscurely reddish, the other dorsal strisw are wanting ; the propygidium is transversely punctured along its basal half, the posterior half is smooth; the pygidium is reddish, convex and oblong, it is twice as long as broad and impunctate ; the prosternum, keel is very narrow and smooth and acuminate anteriorly ; the mesosternum has two patches of ferruginous bristles, well separated from each other, on its posterior border ; the first segment of the abdomen has a punctate stria along its posterior margin ; the legs, the tibia are a little dilated with fine bristles on the outer edges, which are bowed, not angulate, the tarsal grooves are nearly straight, and the upper surfaces of all the tibie are finely and closely puncticulate.
L. 22 mill.
Hab. Corcovado, Rio Janeiro (G. F. Bryant). Taken while flying, 14th May, 1912.
Type in the British Museum.
Heterius carinistrius, sp. n.
Breviter ovatus, nitidus, piceo-brunneus, supra setosus; fronte impressa, dense puncticulata, margine elevata; pronoto trans- verso, margine Jaterali late incrassato ; elytris striis 1-2 integris, basi carinatis, 3-4 apice abbreviatis, basi leviter carinatis, mar- gine postice minute rugosis; propygidio parum dense puncticu- latis ; tibiis angulato-dilatatis.
L. 2 mill,
Shortly oval, pitchy brown, setose; the forehead opaque and densely puncticulate, edges elevated ; the thorax is trans- verse, with an oblique lateral suleus and a broad thickened margin punctured and a little opaque, broadest anteriorly and slightly sinuous on its outer edge before the base, at the base there is a small elongate elevation and within the sulcus is a basal fovea, the disc is smooth ; the elytra, first dorsal stria is complete and distinctly carinate, especially at the base, second complete but less carinate and only at the base, third and fourth striz are shortened apically and again are less carinate, the apical margin is narrowly and finely rugose ; the propygidium is reddish and finely but rather densely punctulate ; the pygidium is almost smooth, with a micro- scopic strigosity at the apex, reddish ; the prosternum, striz widen out at the base and are sinuous before the coxe, and do not meet anteriorly, being lost in the dense rugosity of the anterior surface of the keel, the sculpture of the keel gradually lessens in density to the base; the mesosternal fovee are deep ; the tibia are dilated, especially the intermediate and
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posterior pair,-and both of these are angulate in the middle, the posterior pair are slightly the broadest.
In H. brunnetpennis the prosternal striz are short and very markedly meet in front; in H. blanchardi they are very similar to carintstrdus and the tibie are also equally angulate.
Hab. Hartford, Connecticut (K. G. Blair).
This is the first species discovered on the eastern border of the United States. A single example only in the British Museum.
Chlamydopsis papue, sp.n. (Pl. LI. fig. 6.)
Piceous, above densely and strongly sculptured, a little shining ; the head roughly sculptured with two obscure bow- shaped elevations in the median area ; the thorax also densely sculptured, the form of the sculpture being distinctly reticu- late, the interspaces being elongate or oblong (fig. 6 a), the anterior edge in the middle is slightly raised and minutely roughened and on each side are two robust dentations, the antennal fosse lying under the spaces between them, on the vertex there is an obscure bipartite tubercle; the elytra, the elevations of the scutellar region are lobe-shaped and trans- versely not quite so wide as those figured by Lea for exca- vata, behind the shoulder there is a deep pit which is joined to the corresponding one by a narrow channel passing close to the scutellar elevations, the general surface is sculptured like the thorax, the suture has a fine geminous marginal stria ; the pygidia are densely reticulate, but the interspaces are circular or oval, the apex of the pygidium is smooth ; the prosternum and mesosternum are densely sculptured like the head, the anterior lobe of the first has a sinuous edge and the marginal stria widens out anteriorly after passing the coxe, the mesosternum is margined in front; the meta- sternum is distinctly marked from the mesosternum and has only a single line of punctures along its anterior edge, other- wise itis smooth; the first segment of the abdomen has a row of points anteriorly widely set apart and the posterior edge has a narrow border-line of points which widens out on either side; the tibie are slightly dilated and angulate on the outer edge, the anterior and median pair are markedly sculptured, the posterior pair much less so.
Hab. Laloki, Papua (#. Muir, 1910).
One example in the British Museum.
Chlamydopsis inquilina, Lew., 1885. (PI. II. fig. 2.) The keel of the prosternum has a very few shallow and
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irregular punctures; the meso- and metasterna are somewhat opaque, but are impunctate, with a microscopic strigosity.
Saprinus felipe, sp. n.
Ovatus, niger, nitidus ; fronte grosse punctata, stria antice tenuiter impressa ; pronoto lateribus punctato, stria marginali integra ; elytris striis 1-4 dimidiatis, interstitiis levibus, postice punctatis ; propygidio pygidioque dense punctatis, hoc in medio anguste evi.
L. 9 mill.
Oval, convex, black, and shining ; the head and epistoma markedly and densely punctate, stria rather obscurely marked anteriorly ; the thorax, marginal stria complete, and along the sides is a band of coarse punctures, points largest and most dense behind the anterior angle, along the-base there is a narrow border of points which do not quite reach the scutellar region ; the elytra are striate and similar to those of dugens, Er. (Mars. Mon. fig. 34), but their interstices are smooth, the dorsal punctuation is limited to about half the area between the sutural stria (which is shortened anteriorly) and the fourth stria, and outwardly the punctures occupy less space, not encroaching on the strie; the pygidia are closely punctured, the pygidium has a medium smooth line and at the sides a carinate margin; the prosternum, the striz are complete, joining at both ends, and widen out before the middle, and are angulate at the widening ; the mesosternum, marginal stria lightly impressed but complete, and the suture indicated by punctures.
This species is larger than 8. lugens, Er., and it is easily distinguished from it by three characters, viz. the interstices of the dorsal strize are smooth, the pygidium has a smooth median line, and the prosternal striz are angulate near the middle.
Hab. Alpine, Texas (Wickham) ; August 16th.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE II.
Fig. 1. Pheidoliphila sternalis, Blackhb, Fig. 2. Chlamydopsis inquilina, Lew. Fig. 3. comata, Blackb. tg. 4. —— inequalis, Blackh. Fig. 5. —— pygidialis, Blackb, Fig. 6. papue, Lew, 6a. Thoracic sculpture. Fig. 7. Aristomorphus rutilus, Lew.
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XIII.—Some new Fere from Asia and Africa. By OLpFIELD THOMAS.
(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.)
Hipposideros lylei, sp. n.
A large species related to H. pratti, Thos.
Size rather less than in HZ. pratt?. General characters of the H. armiger group, including the long feet, development of a posterior transverse crest behind the normal nose-leaf, and the uninflated forehead of the skull. Nose-leaf similar on the whole to that of ZH. pratt’, but the supplementary transverse posterior crust higher, attaining 5 mm. at its highest point on each side of its median cleft, and less heavily haired, but the increase in height may perhaps be due to sex ; normal transverse crest similarly high in the centre, sloping down laterally, its front surface divided by a promi- nent median and two indistinct lateral ridges ; anterior horseshoe much more deeply notched in front, the median notch nearly 2 mm. in depth, the horseshoe on each side of it forming two forwardly projecting lappets, outside which again there are two shallower notches, unknown elsewhere in the genus. ars rather narrower than in pratt’. Tibi and feet very long and slender.
General colour dull buffy or clay-colour, washed with brown.
Skull similar in its general characters to that of H. pratti as opposed to those of H. diadema and armiger ; but it is smaller throughout, the sagittal crest (though of a male as compared with a female) less developed and less abruptly rising above the forehead ; area of forehead smaller and not quite so flat, the median part above the anterior nares slightly elevated, while its postero-lateral portion is somewhat concave internal to the well-marked supraorbital edges. Posterior palate more deeply excavated mesially. Teeth similar in general characters, but smaller throughout.
Dimensions of the type :—
Forearm 78 mm.
Ear 27 x 21 ; third finger, metacarpal 54, first phalanx 25 ; lower leg and hind foot (c. u.) 51.
Skull: greatest length to front of canine 29 ; basi-sinual length 18-7; zygomatic breadth 16 ; interorbital breadth 9°6 ; mastoid breadth 14; front of canine to back of m® 11:2; three upper molars together 6°4 ; three lower molars 10°6.
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Hab. N. Siam, Type from the Chiengdao Cave, 50 miles north of Chiengmai. Alt. 350 m.
Type. Adult male (skin in spirit). B.M. no. 13. 4. 18. 3. Collected January 1913. Presented by Th. H. Lyle, Hsq., H.B.M. Consul at Chiengmai.
The Sze-chwan Hipposideros pratti being as yet only known from the type specimen, a female, and the present example being a male, it at first sight seemed possible that we had here the unknown male of that species. But further examination shows such differences as to render this im- possible, notably the smaller general size, the much smaller teeth (this in a male as compared with a female), and the development of the pendant lappets at the front edge of the horseshoe, not at all likely to be a sexual character.
‘The type-specimen was obtained in a cave in company with examples of #7. armiger, as also happened curiously enough with the type of HZ. pratt?.
This adds another to the many new Siamese mammals discovered by Mr. Lyle, and I have had great pleasure in connecting bis name with it.
Rhinopoma cystops arabium, subsp. n.
Like the Egyptian FR. cystops in all essential characters, but size averaging larger.
Occipito-nasal lengths :—
Mt. Quarantaria, Palestine (Zristram): 15:7, 14°9, 15 mm.
Midian (Burton): 16, 15:3.
Yemen (Bury): 15, 16:4, 15:1, 15°4, 15°6.
Lower Egypt (including the type of cystops) : 14°7, 15°2, 14-5, 15, 14°3, 15°3, LD.
Dimensions of the type (the italicised measurements taken -in the flesh) :—
Forearm 56 mm.
Head and body 60; tail 68; ear 76; lower leg and foot (eo a.) 38.
Skull: greatest length 17°6; zygomatic breadth 10°5 ; mastoid breadth 9:2; front of canine to back of m* 6:2; breadth between outer corners of m? 7°9.
Hab. Palestine and Arabia. Type from Wasil, Yemen ; alt. 4000’.
Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 13.6.19.5. Original number 7. Collected 7th March, 1913, by G. W. Bury. Seven specimens.
Although the figures are not very striking, the Arabian
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Mouse-tailed Bat is obviously larger on the average than its Egyptian ally. In the type of R. ecystops the forearm measured 53 mm., head and body 53, and tail 59.
Rhinopoma muscatellum seianum, subsp. n.
Like R. muscatellum of Muscat, but slightly larger and with markedly larger molars (see skull-dimensions below).
Dimensions of the type (measured on the spirit-speci- men) :—
Forearm 52°5 mm.
Head and body —; tail 64; ear 15; lower leg and foot (c. wu.) 36.
Skull: greatest length 16:3; occipito-nasal length 14:7; zygomatic breadth 9°7; mastoid breadth 81; front of canine to back of m® 6:1; combined length of m* and m? on outer edge 3 (2°6 in true muscatellum) ; breadth between outer corners of m? 7:3; transverse diameter of m* 1-9 (1°5).
Hab. Seistan.
Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 6.1.2.2. Collected by the Seistan Boundary Commission under Col. A. H. McMahon. Presented by the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
The Seistan Rhinopoma has quite the peculiar delicately built skull of R. muscatellum, but the teeth are so markedly larger as to indicate subspecitic distinction.
Crocidura doriana fuscosa, subsp. n.
A uniformly chocolate-brown form of the doriana-nyanse group.
Size about as in C. doriana, markedly smaller than O. hedenborgiana, which it resembles in colour. Upper surface dark “‘ Prout’s brown,” under surface quite similar, not lighter. Face, hands, feet, and tail still darker, blackish brown.
Teeth closely agreeing in size with those of dortana, rather smaller than those of C. nyanse, and conspicuously smaller than those of C. hedenborgiana.
Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) :—
Head and body 114 mm.; tail 60; hind foot 19; ear 12.
Skull: greatest breadth across brain-case 12-7 ; combined length of three upper molars 4°8, of three lower molars 5°5.
Hab. Kaka, White Nile.
Type. Adult female. B.M.no. 1.8.8.17. Original num- ber 32. Collected 23rd April, 1901, and presented by R. McD. Hawker, Esq.
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This is the shrew which in working out Mr. Hawker’s collection * I referred to C. hedenborgiana, Sand. Recently, however, the Museum has obtained trom Mr. A. L. Butler a much larger species from Roseires, and on application to Prof. Einar Lénnberg I have received such dimensions of the type of hedenborgiana as to show that it is the Roseires shrew which should be assigned to Sundevall’s species, that from Kaka being therefore still without a name. It is no doubt closely allied to the Abyssinian C. dortana+, but may be distinguished by its much darker colour, especially below.
Felis servalina larsent, subsp. n.
A form of the Servaline Cat with the shoulders and back unspotted.
General essential characters as in ordinary F. servalina, but instead of the body being more or less covered with small black spots, the neck, shoulders, upper arms, and median area of the back are completely and absolutely without spots, as in a lion or F. chaus. General colour strong glossy clay- colour, an ill-defined darker band down the back. Sides, belly, and terminal part of limbs spotted, but less conspicu- - ously so than in other forms,
Hab. Congo district of N. Angola. Type from near Bembe (about 7° S. and 14° E.).
Type. Skin without skull. B.M. no. 13. 3.24.1. Col- lected by Mr. Larsen, and presented by the Rev. J. Sidney Bowskill, of the Baptist Missionary Society.
Mr. Pocock has formed several subspecies for different forms of F’. servalina, basing them chiefly on the amount of spotting and banding, but this one differs from them all by the complete absence of spots over the greater part of the body, so that seen from above it looks almost more like a unicolor than a spotted cat. The types of all Mr. Pocock’s forms are before me, including that of F. s. liposticta, but none of them approach F’ s.