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Show 2 7 4 MR. R. SHELFORD OX MIMETIC INSECTS AXD [N o v. 4, Z elota s p a th o m e l ix a , sp. n. (Plate X X III. fig. 57.) Nigro-cyanea; capite fere nigro, in fronte subnitido, utrinque pone oculum inferiorem macula rufo-fulvescente notato; prothorace transverse, lateraliter rotundato, antice transversim sulcato, tenuissime griseo-pubescente ; elytris sat dense punctulatis, nigro-cyaneis aut violaceis, utrisque maculis duabus aut tribus rufofulvis notatis- una communi paullo pone scutellum, secunda ad marginem externam paullo pone basin, tertia fere ad medium disci; pedibus nigro-cyaneis aut violaceis, sparse ciliatis ; tibiis extus in medio albo-cinereis. Long. 7 -8 ; lat. 3|-4 mm. llab. Sarawak. 1 J in Brit. Mus., 2 3 6 from Kuching, Sarawak (li. Shelford), in the Hope Museum, Oxford. In the two cJ specimens in the Hope Museum there is a small spot of reddish pubescence just under the anterior part of the lower lobe of each eye, in addition to the somewhat larger rounded spot of the same kind behind the lobe. In these specimens also the third reddish spot of each elytron--that placed a short distance behind the base of the large tufted tubercle, but a little more externally-is present and distinct, and there is a cinereous patch crossing the elytra a little in front of the apex. APPENDIX II. Descriptions o f additional Species mentioned and figured in the accompanying paper. [Received January 5, 1903.] 1. L e p i d o p t e r a H e t e r o c e r a , b y K a r l J o rd an . M imeuplcea tr ist is , sp. n. (Plate X X I. fig. 12, 2 •) $ . Body olive-black, with a rather feeble greenish-blue gloss; under side white-spotted as in M. rhadamantha. Wings mummy-brown above and below, not distinctly metallic, except costal margin of fore wing below and a small dot at base of fore wing above. Fore wing, upper side: a series of broad creamy-white streaks from costal margin to SM2, separated by the brown veins, the upper ones reaching from margin halfway to cell, the posterior ones shorter and not quite touching margin. A series of streaks also on hind wing, but here thin, submarginal. The streaks present on under side of both wings, broader than above, all reaching margin. $ . Similar to J 5 streaks of fore wing vestigial and narrow above, the five posterior ones ending proximally in a small white spot, streak M1-M2 much longer than the two above and the one below i t ; streaks of under side of fore wing broader than above, but thinner than in male and much more clayish. No streaks on hind wing above, but vestiges of them present on underside. (Neuration of this specimen abnormal on right fore wing.) Length of fore wing : J 32, $ 36 mm. |