BibliograpTiical Notices. GOl 



Adoretus epiphuralis, sp. n. 



Flavus, capite tarsisque rufis, vertice fere nigro, sparse et miuute 

 setosus, sat nitidus, pygidio longe baud deuse hirsute ; breviter 

 ovatus, convoxus, elytrorum epipleuris fere integris, postice 

 dilatatis, opacis. 



Long. 10'o-ll"5 mm. ; lat, 0"5-6 mm. 



Eah. Burma: Tliarrawaddy, Toungoo {G. Q. Corhett). 

 ' Pale yellow, with the head and tar.si red and the vertex 

 nearly black, thinly clothed with minute, sparse, erect setse, 

 which are very inconspicuous. The pygidiura is clothed with 

 rather long erect hairs. It is short and broad in form and 

 rather convex, and the surface is shining. The head is 

 tinely rugose and the clvpeus broad, with its inargin regularly 

 rounded and strongly elevated. The pronotum is strongly 

 but not closely punctured, rather short, with the front angles 

 acute and the hind angles completely rounded off. The 

 scutellum and elytra are also strongly but not closely punc- 

 tured ; the costai of the latter are moderately distinct, and 

 the epipleurai are continued almost to the extremities, being- 

 narrow in the middle but conspicuously dilating laehind, 

 where they are smooth and opaque. Tlie legs are rather 

 long and slender, the front tibia armed with three rather 

 Jong teeth, which occupy more than half its length. The 

 longer claw is rather deeply cleft in the front and middle 

 feet, and the shorter one of the hind foot is more than half 

 the length of the other. The antenna? are 10-jointed, the 

 tliird to seventh joints regularly diminishing. 



^ . The clypeus is shorter than that of the female, and 

 the pygidium is large and convex. 

 $ . The p} gidium is short and flat. 



A. epipleu/alis is very closely related to A. renardi, 

 Brenske, but the cl}peus is shorter and broader, the hind 

 angles of the pronotum are completely rounded oti, and the 

 cloihing oi the U|(per surface is more scanty, being so thin 

 that a smooth shining appearance is produced. 



BIELIOGllAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Catahr/ue of the Lej)idoptera Phalcence in the British Museum. 

 Vols. Xil. and Xlll. By Sir Geok6e JF. Hampsox, Bart. 

 Loudon : Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1913. 



Tol. XII. pp. i-xiii & 1-626, plates cxcii.-ccxxi., 383 col. figs. 



In this volume six hundred and forty-three species belonging to the 

 Noctuid subfamily Catocalinte are considered. These species, of 

 •which over seventy are new to science, are distributed among 



