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TlUBALLUS PLURISTRIATUS, S]). 11. 

 Bi'cvUer avails, supra jja ruin convexus, niger, nitidus ; eapiie thoraceque 

 nndique punetatis ; elt/tris striis 1—4 integris, 5 nulla, suturali utrinque 

 ahbreviata ; antcnnis j)edibusque obscure rufis. Long., 2^ mm. 



Shortly oval, little convex above, black, shining ; the head, striate over the eyes, 

 forehead feebly impressed, clearly and evenly not densely pvmctulate ; the thorax 

 wholly and rather more clearly punctured than the head, stria well marked at the 

 sides, wanting in front, at the base on each side of a point before the scutellum arc 

 two somewhat oblique shallow impressions ; the elytra, striee crenulate, 1—4 complete 

 5 wanting, sutural discal, surface more or less distinctly punctulate, punctures 

 clearest on the posterior half; the propygidium and pygidium rather more Gnely 

 punctured than the head ; the prosternum smooth, with the lateral strise somewhat 

 divergent both before and behind ; the mesosternum, anterior edge feebly and widely 

 arched and imraarginate, transverse stria widely bent and conspicuously crenulate ; 

 the tibiae are without spines. 



The facies of this species is somewhat like that of Anatjlymma 

 circularis, Mars. ; it may be placed next to T. orphaiius, Lew. 



Hab. Java on " Montes Tengger," 4000 feet alt. 



St. Kegulus, Archer's Road, Southampton : 

 JiiJj/, 1895. 



A PROTEST AGAINST GIVING NAMES TO THE PREPARATORY 



STAGES OF INSECTS. 



BY JOHN HARTLEY DUURANT, F.E.S., Memb. Soc. Est. de France. 



Having recently described a new genus (a7ife pp. 106-109) founded 

 on a species, the imago of which was previously unknown, but which 

 already possessed a name bestowed upon the larval case and its con- 

 tents, I am prompted to make a protest against the practice (luckily a 

 rare one) of giving names to preparatory stages. When describing a 

 Depressariad it would seem unnecessary to study the literature of the 

 Psyehidce, and I should certainly have overlooked the fact that I had 

 before me Eouenhofer's Fumea ? limulus had I not recollected the 

 figure which accompanied his description. Mr. Green bred the insect, 

 and fortunately sent cases with the specimens and also made figures 

 and notes of its habits, without which it would have been impossible 

 to have avoided creating a synonym, which name would have remained 

 to represent a good species in the Depj-essnriadcB until, by breeding, 

 the fact had been established that the earlier part of the life-history 

 of this species stood under another name in the Psi/chidce. 



In this instance no harm has been done, for I was able to adopt 



