268 Mr. A.White on a S. American Wasj) which collects Honey. 



Curror's collection, but not having the volume of the French Ent. 

 Soc. Annals which contains Solier's descriptions, by me, I fear to 

 describe this and another Pimelia from the Congo, also seemingly- 

 new. I may here mention, as it is not altogether out of place, 

 that the Moluris Pierreti of Serville, described by M. Amyot in 

 Guerin's 'Magazin de Zoologie,^ 1835, pi. 129, seems to me syn- 

 onymous with the Moluris vialis of Burchell, two specimens of 

 which, presented by Dr. Burchell, are in the collection of the 

 British Museum. I subjoin BurchelFs description and note, as 

 the ' Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa ^ are not suffi- 

 ciently known to entomologists. The synonym is inserted on 

 my authority. 



Sept. 12, 1811. Note. — "A black beetle was very often met 

 with in our road, and seemed fond of crawling along the ground 

 which had been made smooth by the wheels ; for which reason, 

 and its proving to be an undescribed species, I have called it 



Moluris vialis, Burchell, Travels in the Int. of S. Africa, i. p. 305. 



Moluris Pierreti, Serville, Amyot in Guerin's Mag. de Zoologie, 

 1835, pi. 129. 

 ** Nigra. Elytra postice, et ad latera, tuberculata, apicibus productis 



glabris. Macula abdominalis velutina rufa. Thorax Isevis. 



"In its season it is a very common insect (about lat. 30° 20' 47"), 

 and, in a geographical view, one of a very wide range, but I believe 

 quite extra- colonial*." 



XXXV. — Note on a Paper in ' Annals and Mag. of Nat. History,' 

 vol. Yii.p. 315. By Mr. Adam White, M.E.SS. Lond. and 

 Paris, Assistant Zool. Dep. British Museum. 



At p. 317 of my memoir on the nest of a South American wasp, 

 I have said that it was found on ^^ the banks of the Bio Yancay 

 (Uruguay ?) .'^ Walter Hawkins, Esq., of Fowkes Buildings, Lon- 



* There are but few insects described in the notes to Burchell's Travels ; 

 one however I may mention, as it is alluded to as follows, and the passage 

 contains a note on its habits : " Of insects I found two new species oi An- 

 thia, to one of which I gave the name of effugiens, on account of its very 

 fast running, and of the great difficulty in catching it. This property is 

 common, but in a degree something less, to all the sj)ecies of this genus 

 which I saw. This one is a transgariepine insect." — Burchell, op. cit. i. 

 p. 417. 



The entomologist knows this insect as the Anthia komoplata, described 

 and figured by Dupontin his monograph of the genus in Guerin's * Magazin 

 de Zoologie,' 1832, pi. 39. 



Mr. Burchell well merits the compliment of having an Anthia named after 

 him, as has been done by the Rev. F. W. Hope in Griff". * Anim. Kingdom,' 

 Insects, i. p. 270. pi. 13. f. 1. {Anthia Burchellii) : it is the Anthia excescans 

 of Burchell's MS. 



