NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. Pay | 
Ocelli in a triangle. The abdominal segments are transverse. There 
is only one spur on the middle tibiz; it is small. Pronotum short. 
Labrum visible at the excised apex of clypeus. 
Is nearest to Wlemba, Cam., which may easily enough be 
separated from it by the eyes not being hairy, by the absence of 
parapsidal furrows, by the longer and thinner abdomen, of which 
the second segment is not as long as the first, and by the longer 
and thinner, more curved stigmal branch. 
Taoga rufipes, sp. n. 
Antenne black, the basal half of the scape dark red, the legs red, 
the coxee dark blue. Vertex black, tinged with blue, the occiput dark 
ereen, darker in the middle; the sides of front blue to near the 
bottom of the eyes; the lower part, face, and malar space emerald- 
green, as are also the outer orbits. The head is closely somewhat 
strongly reticulated, punctured, the vertex more finely than the rest. 
On the lower half of the antennal depression is a longish wedge- 
shaped keel, which becomes gradually narrowed from the bottom up- 
wards. Basal joints of palpi dark red; the palpi densely covered 
with white pubescence. The sides of the head, pleurze, and base of 
legs densely covered with longish white pubescence. Basal slope of 
pronotum emerald-green, bluer at the apex ; there is a narrow smooth 
line down the centre. Mesonotum, scutellum, and apical slope of 
metanotum purplish black; a bluish purple mark on either side of 
the apex of middle lobe of mesonotum, the parts round the scutellum, 
the apex of scutellum, base of metanotum, apex of propleurz, base 
and apex of mesopleurz, and the metapleuree bluish purple, the rest 
of the pleure blackish purple. Abdomen purple ; the terebra black, 
the apices of the segments blue, smooth, and shining. Wings hyaline, 
iridescent, the stigma and nervures black ; a narrow streak along the 
costa. @. Length, 14 mm. 
Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 
Closely punctured, the thorax slightly more coarsely than the 
head, the abdomen more finely than either; the punctures on the 
pleure running into reticulations. Pleural tubercles large, smooth, ~ 
and shining. Middle lobe of mesonotum clearly separated, the fur- 
rows distinct. Malar space as long as the eyes, the middle furrowed. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Lyc@NA coRYDON IN DrvonsHtrE.—Neither in the recent book, 
‘The Butterflies of the British Isles,’ nor in the late C. G. Barrett’s list 
in the ‘ Victoria History of Devon,’ do I see any mention of the occur- 
rence of Lycena corydonin Devonshire. It may therefore interest you 
to know that I caught a male specimen of this species on the Devon 
coast, about two miles west of Beer Head, on August 6th, 1908. I 
gave the specimen at the time to a friend who was with me, and he sub- 
sequently wrote to me that he took another example of L. corydon 
at the same spot, on August 17th, 1908. The particular sea-bank 
