1895.] 47 



Proposed Memorial to the late Dr. F. Buchanan White. — It has been suggested 

 that many friends of the late Dr. F. Buchanan White would be glad to have an 

 opportunity of contributing to a Permanent Memorial of one who was so widely 

 known and respected. It is proposed to place a Mural Brass Tablet, at a cost of 

 £20 or £25, in St. Ninian's Cathedral, where deceased regularly worshipped ; it is 

 also proposed to procure an enlarged Photograph, at a cost of about Five Guineas, 

 to be hung in the Lecture Room of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. 



Any who wish to contribute to this Memorial may send subscriptions to either 

 of the undersigned, by whom they will be gratefully acknowledged :— Vincent L. 

 RoKisoN, Dean of St. Andrew's, The Deanery, Perth ; Henry Coates, President of 

 the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Pitcullen House, Perth. 



riattfdema asymmetricum and its allies. — In vol. xxix of this Magazine, p. 274, 

 I described a remarkable species of P/a^j/c?eH!a from Damma Island, and remarked 

 that this was the only species of TenelrionidtB known to me with asymmetrical 

 cephalic armature in the male sex. Since then two other allied forms possessing 

 this peculiarity have come under my notice. One of these, P. (Hoplocephala) 

 inaqnideiis, Fairm., a pair of which (found at Diego Suarez, Madagascar, by M. Ch. 

 Alluaud, in 1893) has been given me by M. Fauvel, agrees with P. asym7netricum, 

 Champ., in having the horn on the left side of the head. The other, P. {Alphito- 

 phagus) suhfascia, Walk. \_=- celeba, Chevr. {Jloplocephala) , =Japanus, Mars., Lewis 

 (Alphitophagus),^ diversidens, Faivm. {Hoplocephala)'], for specimens of both sexes 

 of which I am indebted to Mr. G. Lewis and M. A. Fauvel, is additionally inter- 

 esting from the fact that the horn is placed on the right side of the head. As 

 regards this last-mentioned species, Chevrolat and Marseul appear to have seen 

 female specimens only, as no mention is made by them of the extraordinay armature 

 of the head. The type of P. subfascia, Walker, which I have examined, is a male, 

 but its principal characters are not noticed in his diagnosis. Fairmaire, however 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1893, p. 24), has described the male, but he has omitted to note 

 that the horn is clothed with fulvous hairs at the tip, a character not possessed by 

 either P. ina-quidens or P. asymmetricum. P. suhfascia is very widely distributed ; 

 it has been recorded from Ceylon, Cochin China, Saleyer, Japan, and Celebes. P. 

 inaquidens was originally described from the island of Nossi Be. Mr. Lewis [Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xiii, p. 397] also notes the occurrence of the insect in 

 Ceylon, but he does not describe the sexual characters from his additional material ; 

 and it has been found in the same locality by M. E. Simon in 1892, some of whose 

 specimens have been given me by M. Fauvel. These insects are much better placed 

 in Platydema, with which they are connected by various intermediate forms, than 

 in either Alphitophagiis, Stoph., or Arrhenoplita, Ivirby (= Hoplocephala, Cast.). — 

 G. C. CuAMPioN, Uorsell, Woking : December 6th, 1894. 



The Aleuonota section of the genus Homalota. — The following remarks on the 

 synonymy, &c., of the Aleuonota section of the genus Homalola have been commu- 

 nicated by M. Fauvel ; they will form a supplement to tliose already published by 

 me in this Magazine, cf. xxx, p. 135 (1894) :— (1) hypogcea. Key, = gracilenta, Er., 

 according to the types in the collections of Aube and v. Mayet. (2) ocaleoides, 

 Bris , = Kieseuwelteri, Kr., Kraatz himself having compared the types. (3) the 



