54 [August, 



This insect most nearly resembles N. cingulaius, from which it 

 may be distinguished by being less convex and proportionately longer. 

 The thorax is dull, without admixture of large punctures on the sur- 

 face, except a few indistinct ones on the disc ; whereas, the whole 

 surface of the thorax in N. cingulatus is thickly punctured on the dull 

 ground ; the elytra are also more distinctly but finely punctured in 

 N. cingulatus. The gula in N. cingulaius is moderately thickly but 

 strongly punctured, and the abdomen is visibly but finely punctured 

 in the central part. The anterior tibiae are furnished with four sharp 

 teeth ; the posterior tibiae in N. cingulatus are furnished with two lon- 

 gitudinal channels on the under or inner side, the space between them 

 being furnished with about five punctures at the apex, and the space 

 between the outer of these two channels and the innermost of the 

 four channels on the outer side of the tibiae is furnished ^\^th a row 

 of large oblong, semi-confluent punctures. 



There is an insect in the British Museum Collection which may 

 prove to be the male {var. minor) of the above ; but there is little 

 more than the fact of their having come in the same collection (with 

 other Neolucani) to lead to this conclusion. It appears, however, to 

 be quite distinct from N. Baladeva, having nearly the whole of the 

 thorax and elytra castaneous. It is much less convex than N. Baladeva; 

 the canthus of the eye is more prominent and acutely angular, and 

 the head is more suddenly contracted behind the eyes. The thorax is 

 broader posteriorly, and the sides are less rounded, with the margins 

 more flattened. 



British Mnscnmi : July 17th, 1872. 



NOTES ON THE BEEEDING OF ANTISPILA RIVILLEI. 

 BY H. T. STAI^"TON, T.E.S. 



From the larvse of this insect, collected on the vines at Ma«sa di 

 Carrara by the Hon. Beatrice de Grrey, last October, I have now 

 reared ten specimens of the perfect insect. 



It will frequently happen that that to which we have looked 

 forward most eagerly, and from which we have anticipated a great 

 amount of pleasure, will be found, when actually attained, a source 

 rather of discoinfort than happiness ; and so it has certainly been 

 with me in the case of this Antisjjila. 



Never before have I known what it was to dread to have to pin 

 and set a moth. All things are supposed to become easier with prac- 



