168 i^Ir. IT. Diiicc on 



Euryglossa chrysoceras, Ckll., aiul E. suhsericea, Ckll. 



A male E. chrysoceras comes from The Ridges, Mackay, 

 Queensland, at flowers of Leptoapermum, Oct. 1898 (Turner j 

 702). British Museum. At the same flowers were taken 

 females of E. suhsericea, Ckll., and these also bear the 

 number 702, beinjn; evidently considered conspecific with 

 chrysoceras. The two insects are so different that it seems 

 improbable that they can be sexes of one, and, moreover, I 

 believe the true male of E. suhsericea to be Turner's 1 «, 

 taken in some numbers at flowers of Le/dospennuni, at the 

 same locality, Sepf. and Oct. 1898. Tiiis insect has every 

 appearance of E. sxihsericea, except for the usual sexual 

 differences and the fact that the head and thorax are dark 

 green instead of black. A very characteristic feature, seen 

 in both sexes, is the dull minutely sculptured front, abruptly 

 contrasting with the shining strongly punctured vertex. 

 The abdomen of the male is shining, in the female it is dull. 

 The venation varies, the first r. n. sometimes squarely meeting 

 the first t.-c. The male (Turner's 1 a) is the insect mentioned 

 by Baker (' Invertebrata Facifica,' May 1906, p. 141) as 

 iStilpnosoma turneri. Prof. Baker has kindly sent me his 

 specimen, which proves to be from Maekay, Sept. 1898, 

 collected by Turner, the name S. turneri being a manuscript 

 one by Friese. 



XVII. — Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera from 

 East and West Africa and Tropical South America, ^y 

 Herbert Druce, F.L.S. &c. 



Fam. Agaristidae. 

 Copidryas peruviana, sp. n. 



JJ/a?^.— Head, collar, tegula?, and thorax brown, tliickly 

 irrorated with grey hairs ; antennae and palpi black ; abdo- 

 men yellow, with a black tuft of hairs at the base, the underside 

 greyish yellow, the legs yellow. Primaries pale brown, thickly 

 irrorated with white and greenish-coloured scales; two zigzag 

 black lines cross the wing beyond the cell from the costal to 

 the inner margin ; a small brown spot in the cell; the inner 

 margin brown from the base to the anal angle; the fringe 

 alternately brown and white: secondaries chrome-yellow, 

 bordered with black from the apex almost to the anal angle ; 



