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Show 1875.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW SPECIES OF ERIGONE. 393 by innumerable cream-coloured spots, which towards the base are arranged in parallel longitudinal rows, about seven iu primaries, and six to seven in secondaries ; body greenish black ; the head, collar, pterygodes, and thorax spotted with silvery white; abdomen spotted with white at the base and sides; palpi and pectus spotted with white, basal segments of venter margined with white, anal segments covered by a wax-like testaceous plate; expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. Darjeeling (Sadler). Type, B.M. Easily distinguished from C. maculata by its greater size, the more purplish colour of the wings, and the absence of the ochreous colouring on abdominal area of secondaries. I have named it after the author of the genus. Family LIPARID^E. Genus D R E A T A . D R E A T A TRISERIATA, n. sp. c?. Nearly allied to D. subcurvifera, but larger, altogether yellower in colour, and with scarcely a trace of the two submarginal rows of black spots in secondaries. Above, head and thorax densely hairy, bright straw-coloured ; antennae brown ; primaries straw-coloured, with a subcostal, a bent central, and an arched submarginal series of larger black spots, the last two series meeting near the apex ; abdomen and secondaries golden testaceous, the latter with two indistinct disco-submarginal parallel squamose blackish lines : body and wings below sordid ochraceous ; sides of pectus and fringe of wings bright stramineous; expanse of wings 2 inches 6 to 9 lines. Pulni Hills, S. India 8000 feet (A. F. Sealy). Five examples, B.M. Mr. Sealy informs m e that this species is not at all rare, and is easily captured, as it flies into the house; all the examples taken by him are males. The allied species, D. subcurvifera, Walker, is an inhabitant of Ceylon. 5. On some new Species oi Erigone from North America. By the Rev. O. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A., C.M.Z.S. [Reoeived May 4, 1875.] (Plate XLVI.) Since the publication of descriptions of new species of Erigone from North America (P.Z.S. 1874, p. 428, pl. Iv.), Mr. J. H . Emerton has kindly sent m e another small collection, containing nine additional species ; one only of these (E. viaria, Bl.) is identical with any known European form, though several of the others are very closely allied to species found in England and France. One of the chief points of interest attaching to the present collection is in regard to two of the species (E. ornata and E. pictilis) ; in these an un- |