310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



preparations, I found a perfectly formed larva in the female 

 body. I at once announced the fact to him that P. apollo 

 brought forth its young alive ; but after discussing the matter, 

 we both came to the conclusion that the fertilized ovum had just 

 missed being laid before the mother had been killed, and the 

 egg had subsequently hatched. This larva v^^as exhibited at a 

 meeting of the City of Loudon Entomological Society, without 

 any doubt being expressed against its being the larva of the 

 species under examination. 



The other day I mounted a pair of Colias ediisa, when I again 

 observed a fully developed larva in the oviductus communis 

 curled round, the head and tail touching, thus forming a ring. 

 I communicated this to Mr. Burrows, and on my arrival at his 

 house a few days ago, we examined the remaining three speci- 

 mens of female P. apollo, one of which contained a fully deve- 

 loped larva, the other two, only eggs. Mr. Burrows then turned 

 to a pamphlet sent him by Mr. L. B. Prout. a reprint of Mr. 

 N. J. Kusnezou's article in Russian on " The probable Viviparity 

 in some Danaid, i. e. Pierid, Butterflies," in which he tabulates 

 his similar experiences, and mentions several species of the 

 genus Colias and others having the gift of viviparity. As he 

 does not mention Parnassiiis apollo, I think it is as well to put 

 on record the fact that this species also belongs to this viviparous 

 group. 



1, The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool : August 31st, 1911. 



EHYNCHOTA INDICA (HETEROPTERA). 

 By W. L. Distant. 



Fam. LYG^IDiE. 



Lethceus notabilis, sp. n. 

 Head black, opaque, ocelli red ; antennae sordidly stramineous, 

 bases of third and fourth joints piceous ; pronotum and scutellum 

 shining dark castaneous or black, anterior margin, extreme lateral 

 margins, and lateral angles of the former pale ochraceous ; clavus 

 and corium pale shining ochraceous ; two spots on inner claval 

 margin, one near base the other beyond middle, corium with a spot 

 on basal area, an irregular transverse black fascia near inner angle, 

 enclosing a small ochraceous spot, and the apical angle shining black; 

 membrane subhyahne with the veins brownish ; body beneath cas- 

 taneous ; rostrum and legs pale ochraceous ; head including eyes 

 a httle more than half the width of pronotum at base ; ocelli nearly 

 touching the eyes ; antennte with the basal joint slightly shorter 

 than head, second joint much longer but not quite twice as long as 

 first, third and fourth subequal in length, each slightly shorter than 

 second; pronotum somewhat thickly finely punctate, transversely 



