1873.1 200 



as they themselrcs admit /. c. 18G7, p. G27. I could (if it were neces- 

 sary) quote more than a dozen of similar errors committed by them 

 I in their few papers on the Chilian insects. 



LiSTEODEEES SUPEEBUS, Sp. %. 



Mngmis, ater, squamuUs minimis aureis vestifus ; rostro tricarinato ; 

 pronoto aniice latiore, supra piano, rugis ohliquis, confusis, radiantibus, 

 et antice carinuld mediand sciolpto ; elytris vix quam thorax lafiorihus, 

 obsolete sulcatis, supra plants, marginihus lateralibus parallelis, sulcis 

 ante partem declivam utringue in dentes desinentibus, elytrorum apice 

 emarginato, sub-quadridentato. 



Long. Corp. absque rostro 22, lat. pronoti 5, elytrorum 6 mill. 



Hab. : South Chile. 



A single example was taken some years ago by Dr. E. A. Philippi, 

 in the province of Yaklivia, and presented by him to the National 

 Museum, with the above M.S. name ; but no description of it has, to 

 my knowledge, been yet published. Another specimen was taken by 

 Capt. F. Vidal, of the Chilian Navy, in the province of Llanquihue, in 

 January, 1872. 



Stenoceeus Vidali, sp. n. 



Ovatus,pube corticind dense tectus; pronoti tergo tridentato, linedque 

 transversali elevatd instructo ; elytris incequalibus, ad hasim utrinque 

 tuberculosis, tubereulis in medio excavatis, nigra ornatis, ad apicem ma- 

 cula triangulari nigrd ornatis ; prosterno nigro. 



Long, cor p. 7 mill. 



Hab. : South Chile. 



One specimen, from Llanquihue. 



National Museum, Santiago de Chile : 

 July, 1872. 



DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AFEICAN LEPIBOPTERA. 



BY CHEISTOPHER WAED, E.L.S. 



{continued from page 148) . 



Chaeaxes Akdaea, n. s. 



$ . Upper-side : botli wings deep black, crossed midway vertically by a wliite band, 

 broadly suffused on both sides with bluish-grey ; beyond the third median ncr- 

 vule in fore-wing this band breaks into foui' distinct wliite spots, the two upper 

 ones curving upwards and much smaller ; outer margin of fore-wing with small 

 red spots placed between the nerviires. Hind-wing with three tails, narrow and 

 rather long, black, with bluish-whito streak down tlie centre. 



