10 IJiinc, 



metanico-ccenileis, infra hasin transversim excavatis, sat fort iter piinctato- 

 striatis, punctis ad apicem minus fortiter impressis, stria noiid medio 

 interruptd ; interspatiis plants, ad apicem et ad latera vix convexis. 

 Var. A — JElytris hasi macula rufo-fdva notatis. 



B — Pectore ahdomine nigris. Long. ^\ lin. 



Hab. : Para, Santarem. 



Vertex smooth, impunctate, impressed in the middle with a longitudinal fovea) 

 bounded on either side bj an oblique groove, its surface (seen under a lens) minutely 

 but not closely punctured, sparingly clothed with short, fine hairs ; clypeus im- 

 pressed with a few deep punctures, clothed, as well as the inner orbit of the eyes, 

 with hairs coarser than those on the front ; antennae two-thirds the length of the 

 body, slender, basal joints incrassate, broadly ovate, second short, sub-ovate, third 

 and fourth nearly equal, each about twice the length of the second, basal joints 

 more or less stained with rufo-piceous. Thorax rather broader than long, sub- 

 cylindrical, sides deeply constricted in the middle, upper surface transversely sulcate 

 in front of the basal margin, the sulcation ill-defined, impressed in the middle with 

 a single deep fovea ; a longitudinal space occupying the middle of the disc, together 

 with a patch on either side, just behind the anterior angle, distinctly punctured. 

 Scutellum trigonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra much broader than the thorax, sides 

 parallel ; above convex, rather deeply excavated below the basilar space; the humeral 

 callus prominent ; surface rather strongly punctate-striate, the punctures finer and 

 less deeply impressed posteriorly ; interspaces plane, scarcely thickened towards the 

 apex ; on each elytron near its apex is a large shallow excavation. Body beneath 

 clothed with short silky hairs. 



(To he continned.J 



The vernal broods of tcJdte hutterjlies in the Isle of Man. — A few remarks by 

 Mr. Stainton in the E. M. ]\r. for June, 1875, No. 133, p. 13, on the prior appearance 

 of Pieris rapce or yiapi, caused me to watch for, and capture, the first white butter- 

 flies which I saw on the wing here this spring. I did not see a sjDCcimcn until April 

 I3th, when I captured both rapce and vapi. 



I had a number of pupa; of P. rapce collected in March — the first of these 

 emerged April 11th — but, having been kept in a conservatory, they would probably 

 be slightly forced. It would thus appear that, in the Isle of Man, rapce and napi 

 appear simultaneously. 



On the cliffs, where my walks have mostly been, napi is much tlie more abundant 

 species. Pieris hrassicce made its first appearance April 21th. I liave not yet seen 

 Anthocaris cardamines. — Edwin Biechall, Derby Square, Douglas, Isle of Man : 

 May 12th, 1876. 



The supposed new British species of Lencania. — I am sorry to say my supjiosed 

 Leiicania (vide vol. xii, p. 279) turns out to be a variety of Nonagria lulusa. I am 

 indc.btcd for this information to Dr. Staudingcr of Dresden, who informs me the 



