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Mr. W. Evans records JE. jwicea near Peaton, in Dumbarton- 

 shire, on September 17th, and sends an interesting list of dragon- 

 flies caught or seen by his son, Lieut. W. E. Evans, at Cannock 

 Chase, in Staffordshire : /E. juncea, a male caught at Rugeley 

 Camp, July 21st. M. grandis, one watched for some time at 

 Norton Bog, July 3rd, but not captured. P. nymphula, settling 

 in numbers on alders close to a shallow pond in Sberbrook 

 Valley, near Brockton, May 28th (two males and two females 

 sent to Mr. Evans were " teneral ") ; one male in Sberbrook 

 Valley, June 4th, also teneral; one male at Rugeley Camp, 

 June 17th. I. eUgans, two males and two females from Sber- 

 brook Valley, June 4th ; a male and a somewhat teneral female 

 from a pond in Brindley Valley, near Hednesford, June 5th ; two 

 males (one teneral) and five females (all teneral) at Upper Sber- 

 brook Pond, June 7th. A. piiella, a male at a wayside pool near 

 Chartley Park, June 30th ; a male at Beaudeserfc, July 1st. 

 E. ci/athigeruvi, a few of both sexes settling on rushes near a 

 shallow i3ond in Sberbrook Valley, May 28th (a female sent to 

 Mr. Evans was teneral) : four males and two females, all more 

 or less teneral, at Lower Sberbrook Pond, June 7th, (they were 

 abundant that day, but no P. nyuqjhula were seen, although they 

 were numerous at this V)ond on May 28th) ; a female, north of 

 Piugeley Camp, June 19th ; a male at Norton Bog, July 3rd. He 

 also took a female E. cijathiqerum at Dovedale, in Derbyshire, on 

 July 7th. 



Kingston-on-Thames ; 



June, 1918. « 



A NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDIOTA FROM NORTHERN 

 QUEENSLAND. 



By a. a. Girault. 



1. Lepidiota consobriiia, new species. 



Female. — Like frenchi, with which compared, but larger ; dorsal 

 prothorax and base of elytron very dark brown, thence shading into 

 reddish, thus not uniform ; joints 6-7 of male antenna shorter than 

 in the female, also club longer in proportion ; teeth on outer edge 

 of front tibia obtuse and not equidistant ; scaly areas on venter of 

 abdomen 2-5 much narrower widely across meson, in the middle 

 segments not nearly covering the segment. Gordonvale. 



In the larva, the patch or naked area on the distal venter is not 

 ovate _ and_ closed, but flask-shaped and open cephalad ; also the 

 head is wider. 



Messrs. Edmund Jarvis and A. P. Dodd first pointed out 

 the above characteristics of this species (see Bureau Sugar 

 Experiment Stations of Queensland, Bulletins Nos. 5 and 6, 

 heir No. 683). Types in Queensland Museum. 



