228 Mr. H. Druce on some 



The following is the description of the Sicilian Olts : — 



Gil's insulan'sj sp. n. 



In the dark colour of the body agrees with G. italicus^ and 

 is thus distinguishable at a glance from G. glis. The tail is, 

 however, far less bushy and not quite so dark as in the former 

 species, and the size of the animal is much smaller. 



The dimensions of two specimens are as follows : — 



The type is no. 98. 10. 6. 4. 



The (Sicilian Glis thus appears to be a small local develop- 

 ment of the large dark Italian species which I have recently 

 described*. The skulls are unfortunately damaged, so that I 

 am unable to give the total lengths, but they are markedly 

 smaller and weaker than those of G. italicus, in which the 

 cranial measurements corresponding to those given above 

 have an average of (in a series of tive specimens) 7*12, 8'3, 

 14*6 niillim. A series of measurements of both Glis glis and 

 G. italicus wnll be found in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, for 

 November 1898, pp. 425, 426. 



I am a little doubtful as to whether the Sicilian Glis 

 should take specific or subspecific rank. It seems to be 

 obviously an insular development of G. italicus ; but, on the 

 other hand, there are probably no intermediate and inter- 

 grading specimens between the two. 



XXXVI. — Descriptio7is of some new Species of Ueterocera from 

 Tropical America j Africa^ and the Eastern Islands. By 

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



Fam. SyntomidaB. 

 Phoenicoprocta cubana, sp. n. 



Male. — Head and thorax black, spotted with metallic blue 

 dots ; antennae black ; collar and tegulae bright orange ; 



* G. italicus. 



