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Elliptic-oblong, black, slightly shining ; head, pi'onotum, and elytra with close 

 short, dark greyish-brown pubescence, and a few golden hairs. Head black, centre 

 of labrum and a small spot on a tubercle to the inside and close to each eye, dull 

 yellow. Eyes dark brown, ocelli reddish-brown. Antennse (with greyish-brown 

 Iiairs) blackish, apical half of Ist and 3rd joints and apical fifth of 2nd reddish- 

 brown ; 4th joint broken off. Pronotuin short, trapeziform ; sides straight, reflexed ; 

 the callosity occupying the anterior two-thirds, and bounded behind by a furrow, 

 which is more strongly marked at the side margins ; tlie callosity has a central fovea 

 and an obscurer one on each side. Inside each hind angle is a small callosity. 

 Scutellnm with a broad, shallow, sub-quadrate excavation on the disc before the 

 transverse furrow; scutellum and posterior tliird of the pronotum sub-rugulose. 

 Femora blackisli-brown, the base, a broad ring near the apex, and the margins of 

 the basal half below, brownish-yellow. Tibise dull yellow, fuscous at base and apex, 

 and with fuscous hairs and spines. Tarsi yellowish-brown. Elytra dull black, with 

 obscure yellowish-brown spots ; clavus with a roundish one on the apical half ; corium 

 with two small ones on the disc, two on the membrane suture, a streak inside the 

 costal margin near the tip, a smaller spot inside tliat, and another streak opposite it 

 on the outside of the central vein ; anterior margin of the corium somewliat flatly 

 reflexed for two-thirds its length from the base. Membrane with four cells, dusky 

 yellowish-brown, broadly clouded with fuscous at the base of the inner margin ; reins 

 fuscous ; a pale spot to the inside of the outermost vein, and a more indistinct one 

 on each side of the origin of the next vein ; a blackish spot between the anterior mar- 

 gin and the apical two-thirds of the outermost vein. 



I would take this opportunity of asking for contributions of 

 Hemiptera from any part of the world, and will gladly furnish hints 

 and instructions for their collection and preservation. Hemiptera 

 may be preserved sufficiently well in alcohol, if care be taken that the 

 bottle is alwaijs kept complct fly full of flu id. If the insects do not fill 

 the bottle the remaining space may be filled with crumpled pieces of 

 paper to prevent shaking as much as possible, in case the spirit 

 evaporate during transit. 



Perth : August 28th, 1876. 



A foreign visitor (Danais ArchippusJ. — I have much pleasure in recording the 

 capture of a fine butterfly, which docs not appear in the ordinary British Fauna. 

 For some time past, the small Scabious fS. succisaj lias been in full bloom, making 

 large patches of deep blue by the sides of our woods and out-of-tlie-way corners of 

 meadows, and this bloom has been very freely frequented by hordes of butterflies, 

 more numerous in point of numbers and varied in their species than I have often 

 seen, thus, — L. Alexis, P. phlaeas, V. Atalanta, lo and urtic(B, Q. rhamni, and the 

 whites have been in great abundance ; and C. cardui, Colias Ediisa, and A. Pa2}Ma 

 have shown up occasionally in all their gorgeous beauty. On the Gth September, my 

 gardener's son, J. Stafford, a lad of li years old, on going to a favourite patch of 

 this Scabious, at once once saw this magnificent visitor. It was sitting on a bloom 



