On Subspecies of Eui-opean Shrews. 505 



Rhodoneura turbatalis, nov. 



^ . Palpi, frous, licad, and collar chestnut-red ; body and 

 ^vings pale pinkish grey ; abdomen with a brown dorsal band 

 and a prominent blackish-brown spot on the penultimate 

 segment, ultimate segment and anal tuft concolorous with 

 the body : wings rather sparsely covered with brown even 

 striations ; fore wings with the outer half suffused with 

 brown, except for a small space on the hinder margin beyond 

 the middle ; hind wings with a broad suffused brown medial 

 band ; a triangular ochrcous-white patch on the costa near 

 the apex, including two small brown costal spots ; a black 

 dot above vein 5 near the outer margin ; marginal line brown ; 

 cilia on fore w ings ochreous, with brown patches ; cilia on the 

 hind wings ochreous brown, without patches. Underside as 

 above, but the ground-colour is nearly white and there is no 

 band on the hind wings ; legs concolorous with the body, 

 without markings. 



Expanse of wings 1^^^ inch. 



Khasia Hills ; a fine series. 



Both the above are allied to R. atripunctalis, Walker, 

 from Java, but are quite distinct. 



Family Hydrocampidae. 



Piletocera chrysorycta. 



Semioceros chrysorycta, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. 188J-, p. 320. 

 Nacoleia conthiyens, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 273, pi. clxxix. fig. 8 

 (1885). 



Meyrick^s type came from Duaringa, Queensland, Moore's 

 from Ceylon ; I have it from both localities and also from 

 Sarawak, and I cannot see how they can be separated ; they 

 have not a character which is not common to both. 



LXV. — Notes on Subspecies of European Shrews (Sorex and 

 Neomys). By G. E. H. Barrett- Hamilton. 



In continuation of my studies of European and British 

 Mammalia in the British Museum of Natural History I find 

 amongst the shrews two very distinct subspecific forms, the 

 extremes of which are very clearly marked. The one a 

 water, the other a common shrew, were trapped by Mr. C G. 

 Danford in the same region in the Southern Carpatliiaii.s at 

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