310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTION OP A NEW SPECIES OF THE FAMILY 



LEMONIID.E. 



By Emily Mary Sharpe, 



Abisara huntbi, n. sp. 



Allied to A. wallacei, Hewits., but differs from that species in 

 having a large white patch on the anal angle of the hindwing. 



Forewing. Groiind colour brownish black, relieved on the apical 

 area by three medium-sized white spots, situated between the sub- 

 costal aud radial nervules. 



Hindwing. General colour brownish black, a large white patch on 

 the anal angle extending along the hind margin to as far as the radial 

 nervule ; the nervules terminating in brownish black spots on the 

 white area. 



Underside. Ground colour duller brown than in A. wallacei, but 

 with the greyish white lines visible on the forewing. The hindwing 

 similar to that of the forewing in colour ; the usual submarginal row 

 of black spots is in this species represented by only three spots, ex- 

 tending from the apex to the third median nervule, the last of these 

 three spots being plainly conspicuous on the midst of the white patch. 

 The orange band only indicated between the radial nervule and the 

 first subcostal nervule. All the nervules terminate in the hind margin 

 in black spots. Abdomen orange-yellow as well as the legs and palpi. 

 Expanse, 2 inches. ^ . 



British New Guinea. 



In the collection of Sir George Eutheven Le Hunte. 



Lyndhurst, 4, Barrowgate Eoad, Chiswick. 



CURRENT NOTES.— No. 2. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 

 (Concluded from p. 287.) 



A. L. MoNTANDON (5) has given us another of his valuable 

 essays on aquatic Rhj'nchota. The genus Ncpoidea is confirmed 

 as identical with Curicta, Stal, and to these is added Helon- 

 tenthes, Berg ;* Cercotmetns is discussed and defined ; while the 

 Abedus-Deinostoma group is reconsidered, Montandon confirming 

 his original opinion that Abedus, Serphus, Stenoscytus, Pedino- 

 coris, and Deinostoma are one genus only, though he makes the 

 concession of three subgenera. Much abstruse synonymy in the 

 Belostoma-Zaitha groups is elucidated, but in one point I regret I 

 cannot follow my friend Montandon. I cannot agree to the 



* Von Ferrari and Montandon refer to this as ^^ Helotentes," and other 

 authors as " Helotetites," but Berg's spelling is " Helotenthes." 



