56 [August, 



16. Chilocorus tristis, Fald. 



Common on lii' trees. The colour is here very 

 sharply defined. 



17. „ RENiPUSTFLATUs, Scriba. 



IS. „ NiaRiTUS, Crotch, (i;/;. «.J. Nagasaki ; one specimen. 



19. Epilachna 28-pukctata, Tab. 



20. Novrus limbatits,* Muls. 



21. „ JAPONicrs, Crotch (sjj. «.). Maiyasan, Hiogo. 



22. Plattxaspis Lewisi, Crotch (sj). n.). Maiyasan, Hiogo ; Shanghai 



(DeyroUe). 



23. LoTis suBSTRiATtTs, Crotch (sp. n.). 



24. „ PUNCTATUS, Crotch {sp. n.). 



25. CRYPToaoNTJS ORBicuLATUs,* Schon. 



26. „ JAPONicus, Crotch (sjy. n.). 



Alexandra Eoacl, Norbiton : 

 July, 1873. 



DESCEIPTION OF a NEW SPECIES of BRAHM^A, IN THE COLLECTION 

 OP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



BY A. G. BUTLER, E.L.S., P.Z.S. 



BrAHM^A JAPONICA, sp. n. 



Allied to B. Gerthia, but much smaller, and altogether paler in 

 colour, the ground colour being dirty-whitish, the yellow sub-costal 

 streak which runs to below the third sub-marginal spot of primaries 

 of a pale sulphur-yellow tint ; the spots in central area of primaries 

 fewer in number and more distinctly ocellate ; the rounded central 

 spot on internal area more rounded, shaded more like a ball with the 

 light introduced in front instead of at the side, with only three 

 spots across the centre, the two outside black, the central white ; the 

 sub-marginal spots united and more deeply shaded externally ; the 

 broad external margin spotted with ill-defined white ellipses, one 

 behind each of the sub-marginal spots : secondaries with sub-marginal 

 spots united as in B. Certhia, the margin white-spotted as in primaries ; 

 central band divided exactly through the centre by a brown line ; 

 slaty bands along nerves obsolete ; basal area paler ; body relatively 

 shorter, the thorax redder ; bands on abdomen more distinct ; antennte 

 considerably longer. 



