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Chalcididse. 

 Spilochalcis mesillce, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 7 raillim. or slightly over. 



Head and thorax bright yellow, marked with black and a 

 little rufous ; tirst four legs yellow ; abdomen (except the 

 yellow petiole) and hind legs bright orange-rufous. Head 

 with obscure shallow punctures ; thorax with large punctures, 

 largest and closest on scutellum, which becomes almost sub- 

 cancellate; mesonotum transversely striate, the stride much 

 stronger and amounting to grooves in the middle ; scutellum 

 imarmed ; abdomen smooth and shining, hind femora duller 

 but smooth ; petiole short, not half length of hind coxas ; 

 hind femora with 16 minute teeth. Abdomen rather long, 

 pointed, exclusive of petiole about as long as head and thorax. 

 Antennae black, funicle rufescent, scape yellow in front ; 

 occiput black, sending a black line forward between the ocelli 

 to enlarge to a broad black frontal band, extending down to 

 the antennal sockets. Mandibles bifid at apex, which is 

 black. Thorax with a black median band running its whole 

 length antero-posteriorly, pinched at hind margin of pro- 

 notum j on pronotum a little and on mesonotum in front 

 broadly bordered with rufous. Thoracic sutures narrowly 

 black ; sides of metanotum with an elongate patch, black in 

 front, rufous behind ; anterior part of pleura black ; middle 

 cox^e marked with piceous ; liind coxse with a broad black 

 stripe on outer side; femoral teeth darkened, but no marks 

 on hind femora ; abdomen immaculate, ovipositor slightly 

 projecting, black. 



Hub. Las Cruces, N. M., near to the Agricultural College, 

 on Bahia or some similar Composite, Oct. 5, 1895. 



A very pretty species. 



XL. — Descriptions of further new Species of Butterflies from 

 the Pacific Islands. By H. Grose Smith, B.A., F.Ci.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



Delias callistrate. 



Male. — Upperside. Anterior wings white, with the apex 

 broadly greyish black, the black apical area extending from 

 the costa at one third fi'om the apex, thence narrowing across 

 the disk to a little below the lowest median nervule on the 

 outer margin, base and costal margin narrowly grey ; near 



