250 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Acanthoprymnus violaceijjennis, sp. nov. 

 Black; the pro- and mesothorax red; the apex of the last abdo- 

 minal segment and the spines white ; the four front legs, except at 

 the base, rufo-testaceous ; the hinder black, with the basal fifth white. 

 Antennal scape dark rufous, as are also the mandibles ; the palpi dark 

 testaceous. ? . Length, 7 mm. 



Face and clypeus closely rugose, intermixed with strife ; the vertex 

 and upper part of front much more coarsely rugosely punctured ; the 

 lower part of the depressed front closely, strongly, transversely striated. 

 Temples wide, obliquely narrowed. Mesonotum transversely, irregularly, 

 rugosely striated ; the sides punctured. Scutellar depression deep, wide, 

 with four stout keels ; the scutellum deeply, bun not very closely, punc- 

 tured. The basal depression of the metanotum stoutly, closely striated ; 

 the areola has a long central and a shorter lateral keel ; the others are 

 closely, irregularly reticulated-striated. Pro- and mesopleura3 closely, 

 strongly punctured, more or less striated ; the metapleune closely, 

 rugosely reticulated. The first abdominal segment between the keels is 

 stoutly striated, the strife clearly separated ; the sides are in two parts, 

 separated by an oblique keel ; the apical part is the larger, and is 

 more depressed ; both are irregularly, obliquely, widely striated ; the 

 other segments are closely, strongly, longitudinally striated ; the 

 degression on the second segment is more widely striated ; the 

 longitudinal stride are intersected by finer transverse ones, forming 

 reticulations ; the white apex, between the spines, is smooth. The 

 alar nervures and stigma are black ; the latter is narrowly white at 

 the base. Tegulse red. The sides and middle of the mesosternum 

 are black. 



RHOPALOCERA AT BARCELONA, MONTSERRAT, AND 

 VERNET-LES-BAINS. 



By R. S. Standen, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Barcelona. 



What made us select Tibidabo as the scene of our operations 

 I really don't quite know. At first I think we were captivated 

 by a sort of quaint ring about the name, and we kept on repeat- 

 ing it to ourselves — at least I did — like schoolboys. Then it was 

 the highest ground, with a rough scrubby look about it, within 

 easy reach of the city. There was an electric tram to the very 

 foot of it — about three miles distant — and on the top, as we 

 afterwards discovered, a restaurant of great restorative powers 

 after a two hours' climb in the sweltering heat. We collected 

 for two days (May 30th and 31st) on this hillside on our way to 

 Majorca, and again one day (June 12th) on our return. In 

 these three days we took twenty-seven species of butterflies, 

 which, although comparing unfavourably in point of numbers 

 with three days' collecting in almost any Swiss valley, are inter- 

 esting in so far that six of them are unknown in Switzerland. 



