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DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BELICONIA FROM CENTEAL 



AMERICA. 



BY W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.S. 



Heliconia Theudela, sp. n. 



Tipper-side : male blue-black. Anterior wing crossed obliquely by 

 two bands of jiale yellow : one in the middle trifid, tbe other near the 

 apex quinquefid. Posterior wing with a broad submarginal band of 

 pale yellow, divided into oblong spots by the nerviires and black lines 

 between them. 



Under-side : as above, except that it is paler, and that the posterior 

 wing has a series of seven small scarlet spots at the base. 



Exp. 2to inch. Hab. Panama. 



This species closely resembles S. Mar/dnlena on the anterior wing. 

 The posterior wing is like that of Metharme. 

 Oatlands, Weybridge : February, 1874. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTEEA FROM JAPAN. 

 BY THE EET. H. S. GORHAil. 



Family LYCOPEBDINIDM. 

 Genus SAULA, G-erstacker. 

 Saula japonica, sp. n. 



Sreviter ovata, suhnitida, puree puhescens, hitea, antennis piedibusque 

 totis nigris, tliorace infuscato. Long. liii. 1\. 



Allied to Saula nigripes, Gerst., from which it is to be distin- 

 guished by its rather smaller size, more convex body, and sliorter 

 antennce. It also presents the following differences : — the antennae and 

 legs are wholly black, the head and thorax fuscous (this colour in 

 some individuals extending more over the surface of the latter than in 

 others, in which the margins are pale), and the elytra are less pubes- 

 cent, and more shining. 



This is the species referred to by me (Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 206) 

 as Saula nigripes (?). I have now obtained more specimens of the 

 latter from Borneo, and have no longer any hesitation in recording the 

 Japanese insect as specifically distinct from it. "It is common," Mr. 

 G. Lewis says, " in South Japan by brushing and beating in summer, 

 "but I have not seen it from Hakodate." 



Family MYCET^ID^. 

 The genus Symbiotes of Redtenbacher was founded on a species 

 (latus) which, though possessing a different facies to its nearest ally 



