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XXVI. Descriptions of some new Insects, collected in Assam by WILLIAM Grir- 
FITH, Esg., Assistant-Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service, and attached to 
the late Scientific Mission to Assam. By the Rev. Freperick WIILIIau Hore, 
MA F. R. S., & L.S. 
Read November 5, 1839, and April 21, 1840. 
INSECTS from the Burmese territories, or from Assam, are equally rare; a 
few species some years since were brought to England by the late General 
Hardwicke, from the latter country, and they are now deposited along with 
his valuable collection of Oriental zoology in the British Museum. A second 
collection from the same locality, consisting of two glazed cases, were pre- 
sented to me by Lady Jones. The nondescripts of a third also were kindly 
given me by Dr. Cantor, the celebrated herpetologist. The only insects from 
the same regions of my acquaintance which I have not mentioned, (with the 
exception of Mr. Solly’s,) are some magnificent species figured in the Trans- 
actions of the Entomological Society of London; they were transmitted from 
the East Indies to Mr. Rucker: all of them are described as inhabiting the 
East ; no specific locality, however, happens to be stated. Recognising every 
species in Mr. Solly's collection (with one exception only), and some of them 
in considerable numbers, I do not hesitate to give an opinion, that they were 
also collected in the territories of Assam. The insects which I now proceed 
to describe for the Linnean Society are entirely new to European entomolo- 
gists; some of them are remarkable for magnitude, splendour, and colouring, 
and I regard them as equal, if not superior, to any of the choicest specimens 
of our metropolitan cabinets. By permission of Mr. Solly, I described a por- 
tion of the rarities for the Entomological Society of London; the more splen- 
did I have reserved for the Linnean, and which I now submit to the notice of 
its members. 
