DESCRIPTION OF A NEW Sl'EClES OF MlMATUS FROM CORSICA. 

 BY P. CA.\rERON, JUN. 



Nematus MAHsiiAM-r, sp. n. 



K. iiitidiis, lufriin, aiifen/iis Jo)i(/is, capite, ore excepto, meso- et metn- 

 noto, tarsisqtie jjo.sticis, nirjris ; alts J'tinuitis, ttiif/mate testaceo. 



Lour/, fere 3 lin. 



? . AiiteniisD ns long as the body, black, the 3rd niul Itli joints cquuL Ilead 

 black, sliitiiiig, covered very sparingly with down ; pronotum lutcous ; teguke pale 

 liiteous. Abdomen almost shorter than the liead and thorax, entirely lutcous, except 

 the basal segment, which is broadly black in the middle ; the apex acuminate, hairy, 

 the sheaths of the saw black. Feet pale hit ecus, the apices of the posterior femora 

 (faintly) and tibiae, as well as the tarsi, black ; the posterior calcaria dark luteous 

 moderately long ; the tibiae thickened at the end, and grooved inwardly. The pos- 

 terior legs are longer than the body. Wings smoky, the nervures deep black ; tiie 

 costa and stigma testaceous. The 1st sub-marginal nervure is absent ; the 2nd 

 recurrent is received in front of the 2nd sub-marginal ; the 3rd sub-marginal cell is 

 nuich broader at tho apex than at the base. 



This inst'ct is not unlike Xemntus fumipeiinis^'i^tc. (ventralis, JItg., 

 nee Pz.), but, not to mention other marks of distinction, that species 

 has the wings much darker coloured, and the stigma is black at the 

 base. 



Taken in Corsica by the Eev. T. A. Marshall, after whom I have 

 much pleasure in naming it. 



136, West G-rahara Street, Glasgow : 

 February, 1875. 



DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW BUTTERFLIES. 



by w. c. iiewitson, f.l.s. 



Leptalis Medorina. 



Upper-side : male, dark brown. Anterior wing crossed by two mactilnr Ijunds of 

 yellow : the first of two spots at the middle, the second sub-npical of three .spots. 

 Posterior wing with the costal margin (except a polished spot of white) and a central 

 band whicli is united with it yellow. 



Under-side : yellow. Anterior wing with the central band of spots as above : 

 the inner half polished and marked by a white spot. Posterior wing irrorated with 

 brown and marked by eight or nine white spots. 



Exp., 2-j'jj inch. Ilab., Bolivia (Buckley). 



In the collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Nearly allied to L. Medorrt, from which it differs on tho upper-side 

 by having the central band of the anterior wing brokeJi: on ihe under- 

 side by the white spots of the po.slerior wing. 



