al (mi) 
linked with HZ. plesseni through these newly-discovered forms, 
and that this species would then have to be sunk as a sub- 
species of H. melpomene. Similarly, H. notabilis through ilia 
and feyert was probably only a subspecies of H. erato, though 
the material was insufficient at present to form a conclusion. 
All these different forms were from eastern Ecuador. 
A new TacHyporus.—Dr. NicHotson showed two speci- 
mens of Zachyporus fasciatus, nov. sp., taken at Wicken Fen 
from under sedge-refuse, the one in April, the other in 
August 1910. This species is intermediate between 7’. 
solutus, Er., and 7’. chrysomelinus, L. It differs from the 
former in the shape of the antennae, which are of the same 
length, but are not thickened towards the apex ; by its finer 
puncturation throughout ; by the pronounced broad black band 
on the elytra; and by the fact that the marginal bristles of 
the elytra are long and stout, as in 7’. chrysomelinus, and not 
short and fine, as in 7’. solutus. 
VARIATION IN LupPERINA GUENEEI.—Mr. Hy. J. TuRNER 
exhibited several very interesting forms of the little-known 
species Luperina gueneei, sent to him for examination by 
Mr. A. Murray of St. Anne’s-on-Sea, Lancashire, and with 
them he showed both fresh and worn examples of various 
forms of JL. testacea, a closely-allied species with which it 
had been placed by Guenée, when first discovered many years 
ago. He communicated the following note :— 
“ Doubleday described LZ. gueneei as a species (Ent. Ann., 
1864, p. 123), but it has always been confused with J. 
testacea. An examination and comparison of series of these 
two species seem to make it quite impossible to confuse them ; 
the facies of Z. testacea, on the one hand, is very constant 
and quite distinctive, while, on the other hand, the delicate 
soft texture of the surface of Z. gueneet is equally distinctive. 
The two new forms exhibited are much more markedly dis- 
tinct, both from the type and from each other, than is the 
so-called var. bawteri, of which the difference from the type 
form has been recently expressed as ‘ merely due to the pale 
grey ground-colour having, in course of time, assumed a 
somewhat ochreous tinge.’ In passing I may say that an 
examination of the quite fresh and worn examples of both the 
