9 6 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



day, and the former was at last killed by an elephant on one 

 of his expeditions. Wahlberg's collections went to Stockholm, 

 where the Lepidoptera were described by the late Pastor Wal- 

 lengren, who was for many years almost the only working 

 Lepidopterist in Sweden, though he did not confine his atten- 

 tion to Lepidoptera^ but studied at other orders of insects as 

 well. He died a few months ago, and an obituary notice of 

 him was published by Professor Aurivillius, of Stockholm, 

 who now occupies as prominent a position as an Entomo- 

 logist as that formerly filled by Wallengren. From this notice 

 we learn that Wallengren left a large family, to whom, and 

 especially to the girls, he gave three or four names apiece, all 

 taken from the old Eddas and Sagas. 



On my first visit to the Entomological Room in the British 

 Museum, in Bloomsbury, at Easter, 1860, when Frederick 

 Smith and Adam White were in charge of the insects, I re- 

 member that Andersson's specimens of the present species (still 

 unset, and not described till some years afterwards) specially 

 attracted my attention. One of them is here figured for the 

 first time. Walker's description runs as follows : 



" Female. Glossy metallic-green. Head and fore-border of 

 the thorax crimson. Antennae and legs black. Abdomen with 

 a broad crimson stripe on each side. Posterior tibiae with a 

 broad crimson stripe. Fore-wings with a crimson dot at the 

 base of the costa, and with three crimson black-bordered 

 bands ; first band straight, second hardly undulating, third 

 more or less undulating. Hind-wings crimson towards the 

 base. Length of the body, 6 lines; of the wings, 18 lines." 



Wallengren's example, previously described, appears to be 

 the same species, and is said to have the abdomen black, with 

 red spots on the back, and the hind-wings red, with the border 

 blue-black, throwing out a large tooth into the disc. 



