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ARCTIIDAE. 

 8. Zygaenopsis rubiana spec. nov. 



Body black, nndersicle of alidomcu ocbreous ; legs black, or part of nndersiile 

 of bindleg ocbreous. AVings as in salomonis, forewing a little more elongate and the 

 veins sligbtl.y more black. 



Ilab. Knlambangra, New Georgia, Solomon Is., Marcli (Messrs. Meek & 

 Eichborn). 



Two (J(?,one ?. 



0. Clerckia fulvia trig^ona subsp. nov. 



S . Forewing, above, with extremely narrow black border, which widens a little 

 at and near binder angle ; lilack border of hindwing 4 mm. wide at SC-, strongly 

 narrowing anad, extended along abdominal margin to base. 



Hub. Aroa R., British New Guinea (Weiske). 



Two (?(?. 



A COLLECTION OE ELEAS EECEIVED EEOM BAEON 

 CARLO VON ERLANGER AND MR. OSCAR NEUMANN. 



(Plate V.) 

 By the Hon. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S. 



MESSRS. Erlanger and Neumann, on their joint expedition to Arabia, 

 Somaliland, and Ethiopia, secured one hundred and fifty fleas of at least 

 five species. A detailed list of the collection is appended to this article. Of these 

 five species, two are undoubtedly new, and are here described for the first time. 



Forty-nine of the specimens have been provisionally identified as Pulcx felts, 

 though they may eventually prove to be distinct from that insect. The single 

 representative of the genus Sarcopsylln has not been specifically determined, owing 

 to a lack of suitable material for comparison, which other collectors, it is hoped, 

 will supply iu the near future. 



I. * Pulex regis spec. nov. 



(PI. V. figs. 1. 3. 4. 7. 9.) 



This species is allied to F. cleopatrae,^ but is somewhat larger, and has longer 

 hairs on the abdomen. The palpi and rostrum reach to the end of the forecoxa, the 

 former being longer than in deoputrae. The proximal series of hairs on the epimernm 

 of the metathorax is irregular, two or three of the hairs being more proximal than 

 the others (fig. 1, epmt). The first tergitc of the abdomen is clothed with a number 



* The type siiccimen, a (J, is diiteil December 2('itli, 18'.)!), nnd was taken from Mcrimirs rc.v in 

 Soutbeni Arabia. 



t En.l. Mil. Mug. (2). xiv. p. 84 (1903). 



