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rows of coarse shallow punctures and feebly bicostate. P\-gidium dull 

 olive-brown, a large triangular pale ochreous spot on each side, the apex 

 with sparse yellow hairs. Beneath bronzy black, with large ochreous spots 

 at the sides, mesothoracic epimera ochreous above ; mesosternal process 

 narrow, the apex compressed; abdomen sliglitly impressed in the centre. 

 Legs red-brown, posterior femora with an ochreous stripe at the sides, 

 anterior tibiae with two lateral teeth. Length 14 milHm. 



Habitat, Colombo, Ceylon. 



This species is allied to C. hilaris, Burm., but may be at 

 once distinguished by its different coloration and narrow meso- 

 sternal process. The specimen described is a male, and was 

 given to me by Mr. Geo. Lewis. 



Clinteria caliginosa, n. sp. 

 Deep black, thorax and elytra dull, the other parts shining. Head 

 closely punctured, a slight longitudinal elevation between the eyes ; clypeus 

 impressed on each side, the apex rounded, narrowly reBexed and very 

 slightly emarginate. Thorax with a narrow interrupted white lateral 

 border, very coarsely punctured, the sides rounded. Elytra with four white 

 spots on each ; the first in the centre of the disk ; the second and third close 

 to the lateral margin between the middle and apex ; the fourth between the 

 apical callosity and the suture ; the disk feebly bicostate, and with rows of 

 coarse shallow punctures. Pygidium coarsely and transversely strigose, a 

 very small white spot on each side. Beneath very coarsely strigose, and 

 with sparse black hairs at the sides ; sides of the abdomen and the legs very 

 coarsely punctured ; mesosternal process short and narrow, its apex obtuse 

 and a little divergent ; anterior tibiae with two lateral teeth, intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae with a large sub-median tooth. Length l'-2-13 millim. 



Habitat, Kodeicanel Mountains, Madras. 



The white markings in this species are evidently liable to 

 considerable variation, in one example the lateral border on tbe 

 thorax is only represented by a small spot at the anterior angle, 

 the discal spot on the elytra is divided into two, and the other 

 spots are very small. In form and sculpture it approaches 

 C. sexpustulata, G. P., but the mesosternal process is much 

 shorter, the clypeus is less deeply emaiginate, the thorax is more 

 rounded at the sides, and the colour and position of the spots on 

 the elytra is difierent. 



NOTES ON THE NOTODONTJD^. 

 By the Rev. Bernard Smith. 

 No. 5.—L0PH0PTERYX CARMELITA and NOTODONTA DICTuEOIDES. 



Less cannot be said, than that Lo'plioiAeryx carmelita is one 

 of the most beautiful of our Prominents. My paper on Notodonta 

 chaonia (Entom. xxi. 36), elicited the fact that the species was 

 not so exclusively southern as I had considered. It brought me 

 the larva from Scotland. But carmelita is known to be a norths"- 



