10 •luiie 



Leptalis IIippotas. 



Upper-side : uialo, })lack. Anterior wing with a small spot before the middle, a 

 band of three spots, two of which are bifid at the middle, and a sub-apical band of 

 three spots all white. Posterior wing with the costal margin (which is polished) 

 and a band at tlie middle (ending near tlic middle of the outer margin in a separate 

 triangular spot) white. 



Under-side : lilac-grey irrorated with dark brown. Anterior wing with the 

 white spots as above, the inner margin polislied and marked by a white spot. 

 Posterior wing tinted with yellow in the middle, and marked by several white 

 spots : one of them near the costal margin, a central band of ten spots, and one below 

 them. 



Exp., 2/5 inch. Ilab., Ecuador (Buckley). 



Ill the collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Eeebia Meeila. 



Upper-side: dark brown. Anterior wing wilh two black spots near the apex, 

 one large (as if composed of three ocelli), and marked by three minute white 

 spots placed in a triangle : the other spot (which is below it) small and marked by 

 one minute white spot : the whole bordered by pale brown. 



Under-side : as above. 



Exp., 2 inches. Ilab., New Zealand. 



In the collection of Herman Strecker. 



This species is in form more like Argyrojyiienga than it is to the 

 European species of Erehia, amongst which it resembles most E. Ecias 

 and E. Sewitsonii. I am indebted to tlio kindness of Mr. Strecker 

 of Pennysylvania for the pleasure of addiiit; another species to the 

 meagre list of New Zealand butterflies. 



Outlands, Weybridge, 



April, 187-i. 



ON THE FONDNESS OF ANTS FOR CERTAIN HOMOPTERA. 



BY PROFESSOK FEDEEIGO DELPIXO, 



Of Vallombrosa, near Florence. 



\_Transhited from the Bn.lletthw ilella Societa Entomologica ItaJiana, 



1875, pp. 61-64..] 



In 1873 in the garden at Paterno, near Vallombrosa, were two 

 very robust plants of cardoon (Cij tiara carJunculus), distant from one 

 another about 10 steps. A little further, in another plot, were 

 several plants of artichoke {Ci/naru scoli/mus). 



Towards the middle of May, on examining the two plants of 

 cardoon, I remarked on both of them a tolerable number of lar\te of 



