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Fig. 1 is Perga Leio'mi, a species whose interesting economy is de- 

 tailed in 'Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,' i. 234. 



Fig. 2. Hylotoma Schizocera australis is a new species : its colour 

 is bright blue, with the mouth and two spots behind the eyes fulvous : 

 the wings have a broad, indistinct, brown band beyond the middle : 

 the legs are black, the protibiaj and tarsi fulvous. Its length is 3 lines. 

 The specimen is in Mr. Hope's cabinet, and was brought from West- 

 ern Australia by Mr. Gould. (Id. i. 23. tab. vii. fig. 2). 



Fig. 3 represents a new genus, Packylota of Westwood ; it is allied 

 to Hylotoma, the antenna; being three-jointed, the second joint short, 

 the third long : mandibles large, stout, and acute at the tip : maxillsB 

 and labium small and membranaceous ; maxi- and labipalpi short and 

 four-jointed : the wings have one marginal and four sub-marginal cells : 

 the legs are short, strong and depressed ; the tibias are without spines 

 at the tip. The species, Pack. Audouinii, is blue-black, the head, an- 

 tennae, prothorax and fore legs being yellow ; the middle and hind legs 

 are black ; the wings are brown, the fore wings having a pale, subcos- 

 tal, triangular sj)ot, and the lower an oval, pale spot in the costal area. 

 The wings expand 15 lines. The habitat is Africa, and the specimen 

 described is in Mr. Westwood's cabinet. (Id, i. 24. tab. vii. fig. 5). 



Fig. 4 represents another new genus Dicti/nna* of Westwood. The 

 antennae are short and nine-jointed, after the third slightly incrassat- 

 ed ; the wings have one marginal and four submarginal cells, the se- 

 cond and third of these receive a recurrent nervure : body short, robust : 

 meso- and metatibiae unarmed in the middle. The species, Diet. Iteta, 

 is of a bright green colour, with a somewhat silky abdomen : antennae 

 black : legs testaceous, with brown tips to the tarsi. Length of the 

 body Sj lines. Inhabits Van Dieman's Land. In Mr. Westwood's 

 cabinet. (Id. i. 24. tab. vii. fig. 4). 



Plate VIII. is a figure of PJiasma Craspedonia gibbosa,\ the Phas- 

 ma gibbosa of Burmeister, 'Handb. d. Ent.' ii. p. 575. 



The chapter of varieties contains ' Societe Entomologique de France,' 

 ' Popular information relative to the habits of Insects obnoxious to ve- 

 getable productions' : this should rather have been entitled 'A reference 

 to the authorities giving popular information, &c. ;' the author enume- 

 rates Ratzeburg, Bouche, Kollar, M. F. Audouin, Walcknaer, Major, 

 Hereman, Knight, Le Keux, Newport, Rusticus, Westwood, Duncan 

 and Curtis : on nomenclature as instanced in Phyllomorpha : and a 

 notice of Burmeister's ' Genera Insectorum.' Edward Newman. 



* I cannot distinguisli this from Eurys of Newman, at p. 90 of ' The Entomologist.' 

 f Phasina in the Greek is neuter. 



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