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Show 102 MR. H. DRUCE ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM SIAM. [Jan. 20, The same form as F. virescens, but the tegmina greener, with less numerous orange spots and with a yellow costal margin; wings scarlet. Length of body, exclusive of rostrum, 9 lines, of rostrum - f ; expanse 2 inches 3 lines. Sect. 6. Species with pale greenish wings (subhyaline). 27. FULGORA VIRESCENS. Fulgora (Pyrops) virescens, Westwood, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 119 (1842). ...... Fulgora (Hotina) virescens, Westwood, Orient. Ent. pi. m. tig. o /J QdQN Pyrops virescens, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 269. n. 5 Hotinus semiannulus,Wa\ker, List Homopt. Ins. Suppl. p. 42 <1858>' Cherra; N.India. **-M- 28. FULGORA CULTELLATA. Hotinus cultellutus, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. i. p. 143. n. 14 (1857). Borneo. Seems allied to F. virescens of Westwood. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XV. Fig. 1. Fulgora brevirostris, p. 97. 2. gigantea, p. 99. 3. stellata, p. 100. 6. A List of the Lepidopterous Insects collected by Mr. L. Layard at Chentaboon and Nahconchaisee, Siam, with Descriptions of new Species. By H E R B E R T D R U C E, F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Received December 23, 1873.] (Plate XVI.) This collection is interesting because it contains several species that we have only previously known from the Malayan region. It appears that Chentaboon is a most prolific locality. It is a mountainous and thickly wooded district 200 miles from Bangkok, on the east coast of the Gulf of Siam. All the butterflies from this place were collected during the month of September 1872. Those from Nahconchaisee, aflat clayey district, 18 miles from Bangkok, covered with long yellow grass, were obtained during the last few months of 1872. The collection contained seventy-nine species (six of which I have described as new), representing 4 families, 6 subfamilies, and 40genera, of which 38 species are from Chentaboon, and 24 from Nahcon- |