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whilst the males were dark and handsome, the tawny colour being 

 very bright. I took two or three males, however, m which the black 

 markings were much reduced, thus giving them quite a peculiar 

 appearance. Lower down I was fortunate enough to secure two more beau- 

 tifully blue females of P. nieleatjer flying over the white flowers of one 

 of the saxifrages. I was soon almost in the side valley leading to the 

 main road to the Dourbes, when an Arctiid I did not recognise flew 

 past, soon followed by a second, the latter of which I caught, and 

 found I had boxed Coscinia striata, and a very nice white female she 

 proved to be. Another day, further on in the Dourbes valley, I found 

 this species very common, they were flying about (both sexes) in the 

 hot sun over a grassy, if somewhat dried grass, land, that was much 

 interspersed with a small rush, and I took a nice little series, among 

 them being a magnificent specimen of the form nuianopteia, Brahm., 

 in which the black of the nervui'es was much wider than usual, 

 making the primaries also very dark. Anthrocera {Zi/iiaena) lunicerae 

 was not uncommon, as was also A. achilleae, and among them was 

 one in which all the basal and median spots were confluent. 

 Returning along the main road, nothing of special interest was taken 

 until I came nearly to its junction with the Eaux-Chaudes road, 

 where, sunning itself on the sunburnt rocks on the right, I suddenly 

 saw a lovely specimen of Pobj(ionia (Grapta) e(jea : an equally sudden 

 sweep secured it, and it was scarcely in a box before it was followed 

 by a second, which was likewise captured ; scarcely, however, was this 

 in my pocket before a third came along and shared a like fate. I 

 was therefore well pleased with the result of that day's work. 



(To be concluded.) 



Catops montivagus, Heer, a British Insect. 



By H. St. J. K. DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Oblongo-ovatus, niger ; antennis basi, tibiis tarsisque rufo-testaceis, pronoto 

 subtransverso, basi apiceque latitudine sub-aequali, angulis posticis rectis, acutis ; 

 elytris obsoletissime striatis ; antennis abrupte clavatis, articulo ultimo penultimo 

 vix longiore. Long. 1| lin. 



Very similar to C tristis ; chiefly to be distinguished by its thorax 

 being a little longer, but narrower. The first five joints of the 

 antennae are rufo-testaceous, the eighth the smallest, much shorter and 

 narrower than those that follow, the last shortly ovate, scarcely longer 

 than the preceeding ; the thorax much narrower than the elytra, a 

 little broader than long, with the sides slightly rounded, behind 

 subsinuate, very densely punctulated, clothed with a dense yellow 

 pubescence ; elytra oblong-ovate, very closel}^ punctate, but evidently 

 impressed with a sutural stria, thighs pitchy black. Very rare in the 

 Alps. (Heer) Faun. Col. lielv., i., 381. 



I took an insect at Nethy Bridge on June 27th last, under a dead 

 squirrel, which is undoubtedly Heer's species, and Captain Deville has 

 sent me a number of specimens from Soissons, and one he took at 

 Mont-Dore, which are evidently the same. 



My specimen is a male with tuberculate anterior femora, and 

 comes next to tihtis and coracina, but does not agree wuth either. It 

 is darker than trisfis in colour, and has a markedly longer and narrower 

 thorax, which is bisinuate at the base, and the elytra are also longer. 



