100 [>'>*>■. 



277. — Leuceronia thalassina, Boisd. Coast hills. Not common at Rabai, but I 

 have met with it in some abnndauce in Giryaiiia eoixntry. 



278. — Leuceronia huqueti, Boisd. Common generally. 



279. — Catopsilia florella, Fabr. Abundant eveiywhere. 



280 — Terias senegalensis, Boisd. Abundant everywhere. 



281.— Terias rerjularis, Bntl. This seems cojnmou generally. 



282. — Terias hrigitta. Cram. Uliiquitons. 



283. — Colias elertra, Linn. Common above -1()()0 ft. The white female occurs 

 freely. 



284. — Papilio nohilis, Rogenh. South Kikuyu. Not iincommon. Generally 

 flies high in forests. 



{To be conchuled). 



i 



PHILONTHUS SCOTICUS, sp. Nov.: A BEETLE NEW TO BRITAIN. 

 BY NORMAN H. JOY, M.R.C.S., F.E.S., AND J. R. LE B. TOMLIN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Black, elytra with a slight brassy reflection, legs pitchy-yellow ; head and 

 thorax very closely and finely reticulate, rather dull ; head subquadrate, a little 

 narrower than thoi-ax in g , the two punctures on forehead placed close together ; 

 antenniB with the penultimate joints rather strongly transverse ; thorax slightly 

 longer than broad, with a row of four punctures on each side ; elytra diffusely, 

 moderately strongly, and somewhat rugosely punctiired ; hind body finely and 

 modei-ately closely punctured ; first joint of hind tarsi about as long as last, 

 distinctly shorter than the three following united ; <J with the anterior tarsi 

 not dilated, the hind margin of the sixth ventral segment of hind body slightly 

 emarginate in centre. Length, 6.5 — 7 mm. 



This species differs from all its allies* iu the more transverse 

 penultimate joints of the antenn;^, iu having the two punctures on the 

 forehead placed more closely together, and in the peculiar rugose 

 punctuation of the elytra. In P. fitiiefarlns the frontal punctures are 

 placed directly behind the insertion of the antennse, in the other 

 species they are somewhat closer together ; but iu P. scoficus the 

 distance between them is less than half the distance between the 

 insertion of the antennae. The pvmctuation of the elytra is slightly 

 closer than in P. sordidus, and not nearly so deep. The reticulation 

 of the head and thorax closely resembles that in P. fimetarins. The 

 sedeagus has the same general structure as in the Gahrius nigritulus 

 group, and most resembles that of G. primigenius, but is much broader, 

 the accessory lobe is as strongly bifid as in G. nlgrltnlus. In contrast 



* p. ci)>liitlolni, Gi-av., P. iiiiii-irn\ti-i«, Thom.'i., /*. jiin(tnnv.i, Grav., /'. sordidvs, Grav., and 

 /'. .spiTiiiophili, Gaiiglb. We have not been able to examine P. tu)batv.i, Er. , P. tlirtfsijinini.i, 

 Bernh. and P. ncriOce, Fan v., whicli, however, differ con.siderably in colour and other details. 



