226 [November, 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW JAPANESE SPECIES. OF LYGMNA, AND 

 CHANGE OF NAME OF L. CASSIOIDES, MURRAY. 



BY THE REV. B. P. MUREAT, M.A. 



Ltc^na Prteri, sp. n. 



Male : upper-side bright violet-blue, costa, tip, and bind margin broadly dark 

 brown ; inner margin of hind-wing white. A dark brown streak closes the discoidal 

 cell of fore-wing. Finnge white. Female similar to male, but only bine at base and 

 along inner margin of fore-wing, the disc being white. The discal portion of hind- 

 wing is also whitish, the base being dusky. A hlue streak closes the cell of hind-wing 

 in this sex ; in the $ this streak is hardly perceptible. In both sexes the veins of 

 the wings are very distinct ; in the $ they are edged with bluish scales on the discal 

 portion of the wing. 



Under-side white, with two marginal rows of black spots on each wing ; those 

 of inner row of upper wing being the largest, and seven in number. The outer row 

 is composed of about twelve spots. A fine black line occupies the extreme hind margin 

 of both wings. Discoidal cell closed by a brown streak, most distinct on fore-wing. 



Exp. (7 , 22 lin. ; ? , 24 liu. 

 Sab. : Japan. 



This magnificent species is not closely allied, to any species ■^dtli 

 which. I am acqiaainted. The female, however, bears considerable 

 resemblance on the npper-side to that of L. ahsimilis, Fold., but L. 

 Pryeri wants the markings on the under-side of the hind-wing, which 

 exist in the Australian species. The males, also, of the two species 

 are widely difPerent. 



I have named the insect in honour of Mr. H. J. S. Pryer, of 

 Yokohama, Japan, who has lately sent to England several specimens 

 of this interesting form. 



I find that cassioides is a name previously employed by M. Bois- 

 duval to designate a species of Lycoena from Central America. The 

 Australian insect, therefore, described by me on page 108 of the 

 present volume of this Magazine will require a new name, and I now 

 propose to call it L. pseudocassius. 



Mount Murray, Isle of Man : 

 October 8th, 1873. 



ON CERTAIN BRITISH HEMIPTERA-SOMOPTERA. 

 BY JOHN" SCOTT. 



Mevision of the Bythoscopid^, and descriptions of some species not hitherto 

 recorded as British. 



(continued from page 82J. 



Species 2. — Bythoscopus eruticola, Pall. 

 Cicada Jlavicollis, Fab., E. S., vol. iv, 37, 42 ; rosce and hipustulata, 

 id., I. c, 45, nos. 77 and 79 ; triangularis, id., I. c, 4G, 82. 



