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tlie liead i.^, if anything, wider than the thorax, and i^5 very 

 little developed behind the eyes, which only converge slightly 

 above. The face, cheeks, and clypeus are thickly covered 

 with silvery pubescence ; the clypeus is roundly convex ; the 

 apex is depressed, smooth, and shining, and has a curved 

 depiession in the centre. The hinder ocelli are separated 

 fiom the eyes by double the distance they are from each 

 other. Thorax densely pruinose. Wings fuscous violaceous, 

 the hinder more hyaline, the extreme base of the anterior 

 ])aler in tint; the third cubital cellule is distinctly shorter 

 than the second; the first recurrent nervure is received near 

 the middle, the second near the apex of the basal third ; the 

 transverse median nervure is received beyond the basal ; the 

 accessory nervure in the hind wing is appendiculated. Legs 

 black ; the fore coxre at the apex and the four hinder entirely, 

 the middle femora at tiie apex above, the hinder above (except 

 at the base), the four front tibiaj above, and the base of the 

 middle tarsi, pale yellow ; the four hinder tibiai and tarsi are 

 shortly spinose. 'J'he basal three segments of the abdomen 

 are red, the apical black. 



This is an Agenia sen. str., not a Fseudagenia. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXV. — On the Bear of Ecuador. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



In 1878 the British Museum obtained a pair of full-grown 

 bears which had been collected by Mr. Clarence Buckley in 

 Ecuador, and which were referred to Ursus ornatus, F. Cuv., 

 and under this name they have remained until now. 



In addition, besides other less important material, the 

 Museum possesses two skulls, male and female, collected by 

 Mr. Whitely at Cosnipata, near the River Inambari, S.E. Peru, 

 being the skulls on which Gray's note on the species * was 

 based. 



Now the Ecuadorean and Peruvian skulls are conspicu- 

 ously different in size, and evidently belong to different 

 forms, but the determination of the names they should bear 

 is not an easy matter. 



F. Cuvier's specimen was said definitely to have come 



from Chili, and there seems no sufficient authority for 



Tschudi's suggestion that it was obtained at Truxillo. In 



any case it should be treated as the more southern form, with 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Tlist. (4) xii. p. 182 (1873). 



