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(? . AntennPD black, n little longer than the abdomen. Ilead black, shining. 

 Thorax black, shining ; cenchri large, dull grey. Abdomen black. Wings slightly- 

 longer than is usual in the genus ; scarcely hyaline, having a smoky tinge ; costa 

 and stigma black. The marginal nervure is received nearly into the middle of the 

 tliird sub-marginal cell ; and it is more perpendicular than in the other species : 

 the cell structure of the posterior winga is the same as in E. Cinxia. Feet with the 

 femora black, except at the apices, which, with the tibiaj and tarsi, arc testaceous ; 

 posterior tarsi fuscous. 



The colouration of the legs at once distinguishes E. tesfaceipes 

 from the other European species of Eriocampa. It seems to be 

 most nearly related to E. Cinxia. 



I captured one example on alder growing close to the Church at 

 Kilmorack, near Beauly, on 6th June last. 



Taxonus equiseti, Fall. 

 In Scotland . there occurs a variety of Taxonus equiseti, Eall. 

 {hi color, Kl.), which differs from the type in having only a somewhat 

 triangular blotch (broadest at the posterior part of the segment) 

 instead of the whole of the third abdominal segment red. This 

 variety (which embraces both sexes) is tolerably constant, and is in- 

 teresting as she^\■ing that Taxonus coxalis, KL, must be regarded as a 

 variety of equiseti ; for it does not differ from the latter, except in the 

 fact that it has two instead of three abdominal segments red ; and the 

 Scotch form with its two and a half segments red, forms a link between 

 the other two. Furthermore, I possess a specimen of equiseti with 

 four segments red, and with, moreover, the stigma white at the base ; 

 so that it looks as if T. sticticus were also a variety. T. equiseti has 

 sometimes the labrum black. 



136, West Graham Street, Glasgow : 

 October, 1874. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PAPILIO FEOM MADAGASCAR. 

 BY W. L. DISTANT. 



Papilio Loumieei, sp. nov. 

 Wings above black, fringes spotted with pale sulphur-yellow ; front wings with 

 discoidal cell streaked with four parallel lines of yellowish-grey ; a spot on lower 

 discoccllular, a straight, oblique, transverse series of nine pale yellow oval spots, the 

 two nearest to costa only divided by third sub-costal branch ; between the fifth to 

 ninth spots four milky pyriforra patches ; a sub-marginal series of cigiit small palo 

 yellow spots ; hind wings crossed at the middle by a transverse palo yellow irregidar 

 band ; a largo black spot on abdominal area, margined inwardly with blue scales and 

 outwardly by a rcddish-orangc lunulc, a more obscure spot similarly margined on 



