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  Mr. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Andrcwes 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  I 
  found 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  types 
  in 
  question 
  at 
  Oxford. 
  The 
  

   other 
  tw 
  o 
  cannot 
  at 
  present 
  be 
  found, 
  but 
  I 
  give 
  a 
  few 
  notes 
  

   on 
  all 
  three. 
  

  

  1. 
  Anthia 
  (Pachymorpha) 
  orientalis 
  (Col. 
  Man. 
  ii, 
  1838, 
  

   163, 
  t. 
  3, 
  f. 
  4). 
  

  

  Hope 
  proposed 
  his 
  genus 
  (I.e. 
  51) 
  for 
  the 
  Asiatic 
  as 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  from 
  the 
  African 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Anthia, 
  

   but 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  now 
  used 
  only 
  as 
  a 
  group 
  index. 
  I 
  con- 
  

   sider 
  A. 
  orientalis 
  a 
  local 
  race 
  of 
  A. 
  sexguitata 
  F. 
  (Syst. 
  

   Ent. 
  1775, 
  236), 
  though 
  Chaudoir 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  1861, 
  ii, 
  563), 
  

   Motchulskv 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  1864, 
  iii, 
  216), 
  and 
  Bates 
  (Scient. 
  

   Results 
  of 
  Sec. 
  Yark. 
  Miss. 
  1891, 
  Col. 
  19) 
  all 
  treated 
  it 
  as 
  

   a 
  distinct 
  species. 
  See 
  also 
  Obst's 
  " 
  Synopsis 
  des 
  Col. 
  

   Gen. 
  Anthia" 
  (Arch, 
  fiir 
  Naturgesch. 
  1901, 
  286), 
  and 
  

   Dr. 
  Rousseau 
  (Gen. 
  Ins. 
  Anthiinae, 
  1905, 
  5). 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  of 
  A. 
  orientalis 
  is 
  much 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  

   ordinary 
  A. 
  sexguttata-iovm, 
  and 
  (including 
  mandibles) 
  

   is 
  only 
  24 
  mill, 
  in 
  length. 
  The 
  proportions 
  are 
  about 
  the 
  

   same, 
  but 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  less 
  inflated. 
  The 
  pimcturation 
  of 
  

   the 
  elytra, 
  especially 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  is 
  much 
  finer 
  and 
  

   closer, 
  and 
  near 
  the 
  apex 
  the 
  surface 
  is 
  finely 
  rugose. 
  The 
  

   coarse 
  erect 
  pubescence 
  is 
  black 
  (or 
  dark 
  brown), 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  

   sexgutfata-iorra, 
  but 
  the 
  fine 
  recumbent 
  pubescence 
  is 
  

   brown 
  (in 
  other 
  examples, 
  however, 
  this 
  recumbent 
  pubes- 
  

   cence 
  is 
  grey-black) 
  . 
  The 
  fourth 
  and 
  fifth 
  ventral 
  segments, 
  

   though 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  stray 
  punctures, 
  are 
  very 
  smooth 
  along 
  

   the 
  median 
  line. 
  

  

  Hope 
  seems 
  right 
  in 
  thinking 
  that 
  A. 
  orientalis 
  is 
  con- 
  

   fined 
  to 
  Western 
  India. 
  The 
  type 
  came 
  from 
  the 
  neigh- 
  

   bourhood 
  of 
  Poona, 
  and 
  other 
  examples 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum 
  come 
  from 
  Bangalore. 
  He 
  mentions 
  also 
  a 
  speci- 
  

   men 
  from 
  the 
  Himalayas, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  noted 
  that 
  N. 
  

   Indian 
  examples, 
  though 
  in 
  other 
  respects 
  resembling 
  

   A. 
  sexguttata, 
  are 
  generally 
  much 
  smaller 
  than 
  those 
  from 
  

   S. 
  India, 
  viz. 
  about 
  35 
  mill, 
  against 
  45 
  mill. 
  

  

  2. 
  Catascopus 
  whithilli 
  (I.e. 
  164, 
  t. 
  3, 
  f. 
  2). 
  Hope 
  says 
  : 
  

   " 
  This 
  magnificent 
  insect 
  is 
  named 
  in 
  honour 
  of 
  Col. 
  Whit- 
  

   hill, 
  who 
  brought 
  it 
  with 
  him 
  from 
  Darpouillie." 
  I 
  imagine 
  

   that 
  this 
  locality 
  is 
  in 
  N. 
  India; 
  I 
  have 
  not, 
  however, 
  so 
  

   far 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  identify 
  it, 
  and 
  shall 
  be 
  glad 
  of 
  information 
  

   as 
  to 
  its 
  whereabouts. 
  The 
  species 
  does 
  not 
  seem 
  a 
  common 
  

   one, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  examples 
  from 
  all 
  the 
  three 
  Indian 
  

   Presidencies, 
  and 
  Commandant 
  Dupuis 
  records 
  it 
  from 
  

   Laos 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg. 
  1914, 
  119). 
  I 
  cannot 
  fuid 
  that 
  

  

  