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golden and white, and inwards more laterally there are three to five 

 others. Antennje 15-jointed ; the two last joints long and thin; 

 basal joint dusky dark brown in the depression ; a few narrow-white 

 scales on its internal face ; remaining joints banded dark brown and 

 white ; the plumes dark silky brown tipped with white, except on 

 segments seven to ten, where the plumes are pale yellowish brown. 

 Proboscis black scaled. Palpi scarcely longer than the proboscis, black 

 scaled, the two last joints clad with pale glistening white hairs ; the 

 brown lateral spots on the thorax smaller than the female. Wings 

 scaly, less dense lateral scales being very few in number. Markings on 

 the legs are similar to the female. Fore and mid ungues unequal, 

 larger tooth biserrate. Dorsum of the eighth segment of the abdomen 

 covered with pearly white scales, pale golden hairs dense laterally on all 

 the segments." — (Leicester). Length 4-5 mm. 



Time of capture. — April. 



Habitat. — Kuala Lumpur, in bamboo jungle, Chang Eoad, 

 five and three-quarter miles from town. Bred from larvffi. 



Observations. — This species resembles Stegomyia nivea, 

 Ludlow, but can be at once told by the leg banding and by 

 the squamose characters as not being a Stegomyia. The female 

 specimen has three border-bristles to the mid lobe of the scutellum, 

 a character chiefly noticeable in ^Bdinae. — F. V. T. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Nymphs of Cordulegastkr annulatus. — The Eev. J. E. Tarbat 

 has sent me an empty nymph-case of the dragonfly Corduleijaster annu- 

 latus, of which he found a number last summer about one hundred feet 

 above Lake Derwentwater. They were by the side of the road next to 

 the fell, which rose steeply. The nymph-cases were on the earth at 

 the bottom of the hill — not on rushes or grass. The nymphs must 

 have travelled some distance before disclosing the imago, for the 

 nearest water was a small pond some one hundred yards away, on the 

 other side of the road. — W. J. Lucas; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Butterflies of France. — I should be much obliged if collectors 

 who have visited districts in France other than Alps (Savoy, Basses, 

 and Maritimes), Pyrenees, and Riviera, would send me lists of butter- 

 flies (only), and dates if possible ; or refer me to local lists, other than 

 British. Any such information will be most acceptable, and I will 

 willingly pay postage, and take care of and return any books Or 

 records submitted to me. — H. Rowland-Brown; Oxhey Grove, Harrow 

 Weald. 



Epinephele IDA var. albomarginata, Fallou. — Mr. Verity's reference 

 (ante, p. 56) to the aberrant example of K. Ida, taken at Roquefavour 

 in July, 1878, and described and figured by M. Fallou (Ann. Soc. Eut. 

 Fr. 1883, p. 21, pi. i. figs. 2, a,b) reminds one of the parallel aberration 



