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gastrica and S. guttata) from Pretoria, from which he has bred 

 specimens of another species of the same genus. The larvae 

 (which closely resemble those of Anthrenus, but have two short 

 terminal tufts of stout black hairs and very long pale hair on 

 the dorsal surface) hollow out the interior of the egg-clusters, 

 without destroying the outer layers, and then pupate in the 

 cavity. They appear to devour both the eggs and the mem- 

 branous substance forming the protective mass. Species of 

 the genus Thaumaglossa, to which these beetles belong, have 

 been long known from Tropical Asia, Australia and the United 

 States (Southern), but their habits seem to have remained un- 

 known. The genus is remarkable for the enormously enlarged 

 heart-shaped last joint of the antenna of the male. 

 The new species I propose to call 



Thaumaglossa himaculata. 



Description. Nigra, antennis, macula transversa utrinque 

 post humerum posita abdomineque postice rufis, undique 

 minute pubescens sed pronoti medio fere denudato ; capite 

 rugose punctato, pronoto nitido, lateribus crebre, medio parce, 

 punctato, postice fortiter lobato, lobo truncato, elytris undique 

 crebre punctato-rugosis, subopacis. 



Long. 3 '5 mm. Hab. Transvaal : Pretoria. 



The type is one of several specimens given to the British 

 Museum by Mr. C. J. C. Pool. 



The species is closely related to T. oothecohia and T. rufo- 

 cincta, but the red band upon the elytra is not continuous as 

 in those, the sculpturing of the elytra is coarser and deeper 

 and the pubescence wdth which they are clothed finer and less 

 apparent. It is also a little flatter in shape, rather broader 

 than T. rufocincta and not quite so short as T. oothecohia. 



New Lepidoptera from the Wandammen Mountains, 

 Dutch New Guinea. — Mr. G. Talbot exhibited on behalf 

 of Mr. J. J. JoiCEY a number of new Lepidoptera from Dutch 

 New Guinea, and read the following notes : — 



The specimens here shown are some of the forty-four new 

 forms which will be described in the " Annals and Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist." 



The specimens were obtained by Messrs. A. C. and F. Pratt 



PROC. ENT. SOC. LOND., V, 1915 H 



