98 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



longer ; the third joiut is half as long as the second. The body 

 beneath is shining black, except the pro- and mesonota, which are 

 green and coppery. On each side of the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 is a band of white hairs reaching to the pygidiuin. The femora are 

 bluish coppery black, and densely covered with white hairs ; the 

 tibisB are bluish black, and slightly less hairy ; the posterior tibia? are 

 longer than the tarsi ; all the tarsi are purple, with white hairs at 

 the joints. 



Var. a. — Elytra with only a few white spots. 



Var. b. — Elytra spotless. 



Var. c. — Elytra coppery brown. 



Long. 12 lines, lat. 4 lines. 



Hah. Angola. 



Farn. Cerambycid^e. 



Prosopocera rothschildi, sp.n. (Fig. 2.) 

 Head, pronotum, scutellum, and elytra densely covered with short 

 pale brown pubescence ; the pronotum is slightly sculptured, and has 

 a very short tooth on each side, and a black puncture on the upper 

 side in a line with and near each tooth, and one just under the tooth, 

 the anterior and posterior margins are transversely striated ; the 

 scutellum is tongue-shaped ; the elytra are rather thickly covered with 

 black punctures, the humeral angles are slightly raised and produced 

 forward, the basal area is blackly tuberculate. The antenna? in the 

 male are nearly three times as long as the body, and covered with a 

 fine silky lavender-coloured pubescence ; the basal joint is stoutest, 

 and half as long as the second joint ; all the remaining joints are of 

 the same length as the second, except the last joint, which is slightly 

 longer. The legs and tarsi are covered with pale lavender- coloured 

 pubescence. The body beneath is the same brown colour as the elytra. 

 Long. 15 lines, max. lat. 6 lines. 



Hab. Angola. 



NOTES ON SOME STEPHENSIAN TYPES OF TORTRI- 

 CINA IN THE NATIONAL COLLECTION. 



By Pochard South. 



Cnephasia sinuana, Stepli., and C. incanana, Steph. 



For nearly a quarter of a century I have been under the im- 

 pression that I knew C. sinuana, Steph., but it was not until 

 quite recently that I became aware of the existence of C. in- 

 canana. The revelation came about when examining the Tortri- 

 cina in the Stephens collection in the Natural History Museum. 

 In working through the species of Cnephasia, I found three speci- 

 mens over the name sinuana ; each of these had one of the small 

 oval labels on the pins which distinguish veritable Stephensian 

 specimens from others which have been added since the collec- 

 tion went into the Museum. One of these specimens accurately 



