52 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Leech (Butt. China, &c, p. 592, pi. xl., figs. 1 and 4, male ; 

 2, female) has described and figured an Adopeea from Chang- 

 Yang, Central China, not having a sex-mark on the fore wing of 

 the male, as a variety (astigmata, Leech) of A. leonina, Butler; 

 but the better opinion would seem to be that originally enter- 

 tained by Mr. Leech, namely, that astigmata, Leech, is a distinct 

 species ; since there appears to be no other recorded instance in 

 the Hesperiidas in which the alar sex-mark of the male is some- 

 times present and sometimes absent in the same species, and it 

 appears that the sex-mark was wanting in all the males of the 

 form under consideration received from that locality. The fact 

 that the male genitalia in astigmata, Leech, are identical in 

 shape and structure with those of A. leonina, Butler, merely 

 proves that these organs are of the form common to A. sylvatica, 

 Bremer, A. tenebrosa, Leech, and A. leonina, Butler. 

 Colesborne, Cheltenham. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF DORYPHORA. 

 By Martin Jacoby, F.E.S. 



Doryphora venezuelensis, n. sp. 



Ovate, very convex, dark fulvous ; head and thorax uearly im- 

 punctate ; elytra very finely punctate-striate, flavous, the sutural and 

 lateral margins, a deeply dentate transverse band at the base, another 

 below the middle, and a triangular spot near the apex, piceous. 

 Length, 10 mill. 



Head impunctate and without any impressions, fulvous ; antenna 

 fuscous, the lower six joints fulvous, terminal joints widened, but 

 longer than broad ; thorax three times broader than long, the sides 

 strongly rounded in front, rather constricted near' the base, the 

 anterior angles not produced into a tooth, the surface impunctate with 

 the exception of a few strong punctures at the sides ; a single deeper 

 puncture is also placed at some distance each side of the lateral mar- 

 gin ; the elytra are very finely punctured in irregular rows, distantly 

 placed, the darker markings are of a piceous colour, with a distinct 

 metallic-green gloss, and consist of a transverse band below the base, 

 which includes a flavous spot near the scutellum, having its lower edge 

 deeply irregularly dentate, a narrower band below the middle in shape 

 of four elongate connected spots, a triangular spot near the apex ; the 

 suture and the lateral margins are of the same colour, the under side 

 and legs dark fulvous, the mesosternal process short, stout, and straight. 



Hab. Venezuela. 



This Doryphora, of which a single specimen is contained in 

 my collection, is evidently allied to D. landolti, Steinh. (Mittheil. 

 Ent. Ver. Miinchen, 1877), but the author described the thorax 

 as having a tooth or point at the anterior angles, which is not 



