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the identity of this moth, as I have always understood it was a 

 June species. 



L. auriflua, Luperina testacea (some fine forms with the mark- 

 ings on the upper wings black), Neuronia popularis, A. oculea, N. 

 rubi, X. polyodon, X. scolopacina (one, Aug. 3rd, new to Mr. A 0. 

 Walker's list), L. complamda, E. absynthiata, Halia ivavaria, 

 Crocallis elinguaria, Ennomos tiliaria, E. fuscantaria, Crambus 

 tristellus, Paraponyx stratiotalis, T. podana, Scoparia angustea, 

 Catoptria scopoliana (?), Hyponomeuta padellus (small ermine, and 

 far too abundant.) 



As a rule, the hours were very happy, and there was plenty of 

 interest in observing, all through the night, how well a town can 

 be placed under watch and ward. The only case I know of where 

 anything like obstruction occurred was, years ago, in a lonely 

 suburb, long before the institution of the electric lights. A 

 tramp — the genus is fast disappearing under the new forms of 

 local government — became inspired with the idea that a solitary 

 collector was worth looting. The matter, however, was eventually 

 arranged by the flight of the enemy. 



Chester : Aug. 18th, 1899. 



DESCRIPTIONS of NEW SPECIES of SOUTH AMERICAN 

 PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 



By Martin Jacoby, F.E.S. 



Lema tenuilimbata, sp. no v. 



Below black ; head and thorax flavous, the latter impunctate, with 

 a lateral black stripe ; elytra closely foveolate punctate, flavous, the 

 lateral margins and the apex more broadly black, interstices costate at 

 the apex, the ninth row of punctures interrupted ; legs testaceous, 

 antenna? black. Length, 6 mill. 



Head finely rugose between the eyes, pale fulvous, clothed with fine 

 yellowish pubescence ; labrum black ; antenna? scarcely extending to 

 the middle of the elytra, black, the third joint double the length of the 

 second ; thorax not longer than broad, but slightly constricted at the 

 sides, the disc smooth and impunctate, obsoletely transversely depressed 

 near the anterior margin, the basal sulcus deep, the sides with a narrow 

 longitudinal black band ; scutellum black at the apex ; elytra flattened, 

 pale flavous, the punctures very deep and round, closely placed and 

 transversely connected, the interstices strongly costate at the sides and 

 apex, the latter black, this colour extending in shape of a narrow stripe 

 along the sides upwards to the shoulders, leaving the extreme lateral 

 margin of the ground colour, breast, and abdomen black ; legs pale 

 testaceous, the femora with an obsolete piceous stripe above ; the tibia? 

 and tarsi also more or less striped with piceous. 



Hab. Callanga, Peru. 



