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shining ochraceous or reddish ochraceous ; scutellum pale ochraceous, 
sparingly punctate, a large transverse basal spot and a small marginal 
spot on each side before apex metallic green or pale blackish; corium 
metallic green or purplish green, thickly finely punctate; membrane 
greyish white; body beneath and legs ochraceous, somewhat thickly 
darkly punctate : antenne black, second joint somewhat short, third, 
fourth and fifth joints longer and almost subequal in length; con- 
nexivum ochraceous with somewhat large metallic-green transverse 
spots. 
Long, 8 mm. 
Tonkin; Chapa. 
The British Museum Collection also contains a specimen 
from W. Yunnan collected by Dr. Anderson. 
(To be continued.) 
NEW FOREST NOTES AND CAPTURES, 1920. 
By Hueu P. Jones. 
In a season such as this last has been, when for weeks on end 
all active collecting was stopped by wet weather, it is rather a 
difficult matter to arrange material collected for this paper, any 
month-by-month treatment being out of the question. For 
instance, whilst March was a beautiful month, the heat in woods 
and enclosures here being that which is generally described as 
summer-like, bringing out spring Diptera and Lepidoptera much 
before their time, April’s weather was just the contrary, cold 
winds and continual rain keeping back everything that was not 
already out and decimating those that were—e. g. Huchloé carda- 
mines, which from being well on the wing by the beginning of 
April had almost disappeared by May, only a few stragglers 
surviving to enjoy the sun that eventually appeared, and con- 
tinued, with dull intervals, until the end of June. 
During this fine period insects were so abundant and forward 
that most entomologists anticipated a record season ; but alas! 
it was not to last. It started to rain again in July, and kept on 
raining so heavily and continuously that when the sun shone 
again in August the woods were practically bare of insect life, 
a state which continued until about the middle of the month— 
too late, of course, for anything interesting to survive (although 
I was pleased to see Dryas paphia, var. valesina, in sufficient 
numbers to ensure continuity next season). 
Limenitis sibylla, amongst the butterflies, suffered the most, 
being swept entirely away in some places, the greatest damage 
being done at Royden, where from being out in the greatest 
profusion towards the end of June not a single specimen was 
observed later, even paphia barely surviving here. 
However, the early appearance of the former may have saved 
it for this part of the forest, for whilst collecting some full-fed 
