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bviglit red ; one or two spots near the base, some red sufFu- 

 sion in the centre, bright red streaks in front of the discal 

 band, a row of briglit red submarginal spots with grej centres 

 and red marginal line, disconnected between the veins, with 

 white points on the veins; cilia white, with brown dots. 

 Hind wings greyish white, unmarked. Underside grej ; fore 

 wings with brown veins, a hrown marginal line similar to the 

 line above, and some of the markings showing through the 

 wing. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Kiiasia Hills {Hamilton). One example. 



Allied to L. decorata^ Moore. 



The types of all these species will be presented to the 

 British Museum as usual. 



XXXYI. — On a remarlxobly sculptured Terrestrial Isopod 

 Jroni Kiw Zealand. By George M. THOMSON, F.L.S. 



[Plate IV.J 



Some years ago I received from Mr. A. Hamilton a single 

 specimen of a very curious and interesting Isopod, which he 

 picked up among dead leaves &c. in the neighbourhood of 

 Petane, near Napier, Kew Zealand. The specimen, which 

 ■was dry, was in rather a mutilated condition, having lost its 

 outer antennae and having the opercular plates on the under- 

 side of the abdomen somewhat damaged, so that I could 

 not tell whether they were tracheate or otherwise. From 

 these causes I have been quite unable to locate the animal in 

 its proper genus. It belongs evidently to Budde-Lund's 

 section Armadilloidea, and it may be necessary to constitute a 

 new genus for its reception. 



1 have long hoped to discover or receive more specimens 

 of so striking a form ; but as no others have been obtained, 

 1 think it desirable to have it figured and provisionally 

 described. 



1 he specimen, inclusive of the flange-like processes of the 

 frontal plates, epimera, and abdominal segments, is 6 millim. 

 long and '6'6 niiilim. broad, and is somewhat curved upwards 

 in the middle. It does not appear capable of being rolled 



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