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bright red ; one or two spots near the base, some red suffa- 
sion in the centre, bright red streaks in front of the discal 
band, a row of bright red submarginal spots with grey centres 
and red marginal line, disconnected between the veins, with 
white points on the veins; cilia white, with brown dots. 
Hind wings greyish white, unmarked. Underside grey ; fore 
wings with brown veins, a brown marginal line similar to the 
line above, and some of the markings showing through the 
wing. 
Expanse of wings 1;% inch. 
Khasia Hills (4amelton). One example. 
Allied to L. decorata, Moore. 
The types of all these species will be presented to the 
British Museum as usual. 
XXXVI.—On a remarkably sculptured Terrestrial Isopod 
Jrom New Zealand. By Grorce M. Tuomson, F.L.S. 
[Plate IV.} 
SomE years ago I received from Mr. A. Hamilton a single 
specimen of a very curious and interesting Isopod, which he 
picked up among dead leaves &c. in the neighbourhood of 
Petane, near Napier, New Zealand. The specimen, which 
was dry, was in rather a mutilated condition, having lost its 
outer antenne and having the opercular plates on the under- 
side of the abdomen somewhat damaged, so that I could 
not tell whether they were tracheate or otherwise. From 
these causes I have been quite unable to locate the animal in 
its proper genus. It belongs evidently to Budde-Lund’s 
section Armadilloidea, and it may be necessary to constitute a 
new genus for its reception. 
I have long hoped to discover or receive more specimens 
of so striking a form; but as no others have been obtained, 
I think it desirable to have it figured and provisionally 
described. 
The specimen, inclusive of the flange-like processes of the 
frontal plates, epimera, and abdominal segments, is 6 millim. 
long and 8°5 millim. broad, and is somewhat curved upwards 
in the middle. It does not appear capable of being rolled 
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