On a new Species o/" Bu[)ic.stida'. 219 



This point is illustrated by the accompimyiii!^ dlagrain. 



It ^V()ul^l ii]>[)('ar from this conij)aiisoii that the uiipaiied 

 penitiil jioiich is iiitorpolali-il hctwccti the two normal pairs; 

 and it' this he granted it wiMild have to he assunu-d either that 

 a segment w hieh does not normally hear pouches intt-rvenes 

 letwien the two which normally do, or that a partial dupli- 

 cation of" the nephiidia of one segnicnt has occurred — a phoiio- 

 ineiuMi whieh we tin<l in its c tmph'te form in the family of 

 the Capitellithe. 



Mr. l*nnnelt, Assistant Professor nf Natural History in the 

 UnivtMsity of St. Andrews, who kindly gave me the ahnormal 

 and the various normal specimens, intorms me that they were 

 all obtained near Plymouth in the same locality, 'i'here can 

 thus be no doubl that this case is an actual variation, not a 

 local variety. 



XXX. — Dcscrijition of a niw Species of Huprestidaj. 

 By CiiAS. O. Waterhouse, V.P.blS. 



Specimens of the ppccies described below have been in the 

 AJuseum collection tor many years, separated as distinct from 

 Psi/ojitera quadrioculata. A fresh sj)ecimen just brought 

 fiom Upi)er Egypt by Mr. D. A. ^lacAlister shows that the 

 diflerenees between this and P. quadrioculata are constant, 

 and I therefore venture to give it a name, and I propose to 

 call it P. MacAIisteri i\ittr the donor. 



PsiJoptera MucAlisterij sjx n. 



P. qiunlriocnlaUf valde affinis ; vitta obliqua thoracis, elytrorumque 

 vitta later.ili cupreo-rubris ; corporo siihtus tomento griseo-ulbo 

 iiuluto, utriiKpie maculis majoribus circularibus ornate. 



Long. i'<i-27 mill. 



Very similar to P. quadrioculain^ but perhaps a litflo less 

 convex, 'ihc general blackish-aeneous colour is the same, 

 but the impressions on the thorax and lateral stripe of the 

 elytra are copjiery red. The front of the head is clothed with 

 pale yellow pile. The thorax is moderately closely and 

 strongly punctured, with a slight raised median line, and 

 four rotundate, smooth, black spots as in P. quadrioculata^ 

 but the rugose surface surrounding them is coppery red and 

 forms a distinct oblitpie band from the anterior spot to the 

 b i.=p, leaving a tiiangidar space at the posterior angle slightly 



