1867.] 151 



CONIOPTEETX DETBITA, nOV. Sp. 



JFusca : antennis fuscis, basi griseo-testaceis ; palpis pedibusque 

 griseo-testaceis ; ore rufo-piceo ; ahdomine sordide aurantiaco ; alis anticis 

 posticis fere cequalibus, suh-hyalinis,fuliginosis, venis fuscis. ( ? ?) 



Long, corp, f" ; exp, alar. 2|"'. 



Habitat ad Adelaide in Australia meridionali. In collect. Mus. 

 Oxon. 



One example in good condition. Under a high power the 

 wings show a few scattered dark powdery granules. In neuration and 

 general structure it is similar to G. psociformis. 



Forest Hill, S.B. 



Erehia Eioryale of Esper, a species of Lepidoptera possihl/y new to the British 

 lists. — I have jnst exammed the typical specimens of Stephens' Erebia Ligea ; and 

 provided they were, as Mr. Stephens seems to say, actually taken in Great Britain, 

 we shall be obliged to add another Erehia to our lists, inasmuch as the two insects 

 which he has described and figured are undoubtedly distinct. 



The following are Mr. Stephens' remarks concerning his Ligea (Illust. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust., vol. i., p. 61) : — 



" Few cabinets contain this insect, which is more to be esteemed from its 

 apparent rarity than for its beauty. The only indigenous specimens which have 

 come to my knowledge were captured in the Isle of Arran, I believe by Sir Patrick 

 Walker and A. MacLeay, Esq. ; but I am not aware of the true locality, or of the 

 period of the year, which is probably about July or August." He then adds, " the 

 plate has been executed from a fine pair of the insect in my collection." 



Surely we may argue from this that the specimens in Mr. Stephens' collection 

 are those taken by Messrs. Walker and McLeay, and, since two gentlemen had a 

 hand in their capture, we may surmise that they were possibly taken in different 

 locaUties ; but however that may be, the insect which Stephens figures as the male 

 of hia Ligea is most assuredly the male of Esper's Euryale, and represents the 

 variety figured by Freyer in his " Neuere Beitrage," vol. 1, tab. 61, fig. 3 (1833) ; 

 it is much too small for Ligea, and has minute and blind ocelli on the upper-side ; the 

 under-side of the hind-wings has scarcely a trace of the white band, and the ocelli 

 have ferruginous irides. 



The sexes of Ligea do not differ in size or coloration, whilst those of Euryale 

 are very dissimilar. 



The figures of these insects, being drawn by measurement, exceed the insects 

 themselves in expanse of wing, as the setting makes a difference of three-sixteenths 

 of an inch in the size of the flies : the colouring of the figures is not so bright as 

 in the insects themselves. 



As regards the distinctness of Ligea and Euryale I have not the slightest 

 doubt, as I have this year taken both sexes of either species in Switzerland ; and 

 I noticed that the latter was most likely to be found near water, or in moist 

 situations, at a great elevation, whilst the former could be obtained everywhere. 



