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Limenitis Trivena* — I have seen but three individuals of this 

 species, all in the Himalaya, 7,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, in forests of oak 

 (Quercus inccma and semi-carpifolia) . Has a quick flight, sometimes 

 slower, floating in and out of the sunlight. 



Diadema Bolina. — Tolerably abundant in Oudh and at Umballa in 

 the rainy season (autumn), and well into the winter. Larva reared on 

 Portulaca oleracea. 



D. Lassinassa. — Sexes vary much in size, and the female in co- 

 louring. Frequents woods and orchards, affecting the shade of the 

 trees. 



Hestina persimilis. — Himalaya, 4,000 to 7,000 feet. I have only 

 seen three specimens of this. One I caught in a narrow glen, well 

 wooded with undergrowth ; the other two in an orchard of plum and 

 apricot, on the ripe fruit of which these insects (with the next also, and 

 Athymcd) were settling, both on the trees and on the fallen fruit below 



the trees. 



{To he conchided in our next.) 



DESCRIPTIONS oy some UNCHARACTERIZED GENERA of PHYTOPHAGA. 

 BY JOSEPH S. BALT, M.E.S. 



Fam. — Eumolpidae. 



Genus — Iphimeis. 



Corpus late ovatiim, aut oblongo-ovatum, valde convexum ; caput 

 perpendiculare, thoraci ad oculos insertum ; antennis subfiliformibus, 

 basi gracilibus, articulis 5 vel 6 ultimis paullo incrassatis et compressis, 

 plerumque nigris ; oculis intus plus minusve sinuatis ; mento quadrato- 

 emarginato ; thorax transversus, basi elytrorum latitudini fere aequalis, 

 lateribus marginatis, integris, I'otundato-angustatis, obliquis, apice 

 medio vix antrorsum producto, utrinque pone oculos sinuato ; elytra 

 thorace paullo latiora, confuse punctata ; pedes mediocres, robusti, 

 simplices ; tihiis posticis extus caualiculatis ; unguiculis appendiculatis ; 

 prosternum planum, latitudine longius, basi truncatum; epimeris 

 anticis prosterni apice continuatis, subtrapeziformibus, angulo exteriori 

 ab angulo thoracis remotis ; mesosternum fere quadratum. 



* LimenitU Trivena, Moore, n. sp., <J. — Upper-side brown, with a broad interrupted white band 

 extending across the disc of both wings, beyond which is a marginal series of pale ochrey-red lunules, 

 bordered on each side with black. In the fore-wing are a few small wliite spots at the apex, before the 

 band, and wifliin the discoidal cell is a transverse white streak, on each side of which is a narrow, pale 

 ochrey-red, black bordered streak, the basal one showing itself below the cell. 



5. — Darker, fuliginous, tinged with green at the base of the wings, the broad transverse band 

 and spots creamy white, the marginal serle.i of lunules also whitish. 



Under-side ochrey yellow, with the broad band, discoidal and apical spots wliite. Ciliae white, at 

 the points black. Antennse at the apex ochrey-rcd. 



Expans. 2i", 



