246 On a new Species of Chamceleon from Madagascar. 



Botydidae. 



49. Botys Kingdom ', sp. n. 



B. marginaU affinis : aloe subhyalinae, aureo-albidae, margine exteruo 

 ciliisque aureis, anticse apice costaque cupreis, fasciola obliqua 

 subapicali, macula apud venas discocellularcs triangulari striga- 

 que subeostali basali purpureo-nigris, puncto apud angulum 

 externum purpureo-fusco ; posticse macula subapicali et puncto 

 apud angulum analem purpureo-nigris : tborax purpureo-fuscus ; 

 abdomen rufescens, segmento basali flavo albo marginato, segmentis 

 secundo et tertio lateraliter argenteo maculatis. Alae subtus palli- 

 diores : corpus argenteum, gcuibus tibiisquo aureis. Alar. exp. 

 unc. 1, lin. 1. 



A ntan an ari vo (Kingdon) . 



A very beautiful species, smaller than B. marginalis, with 

 darker and differently formed border to the primaries, and with 

 differently coloured body. 



The only representative of the Tineina now received is 

 one of the Crambites^ which I believe to be Ancylolomia? 

 anticella of Walker. 



The difficulty of obtaining papers published in recent French 

 publications is so great that I have been almost inclined to 

 doubt whether the authors desire the English public to see 

 them. I have consulted three of the largest libraries acces- 

 sible to me, to none of which the French Entomological Society 

 has sent the complete volume of its { Annales ' for 1878. 



XXVII. — Description of a new Species of Chamaileon from 

 Madagascar. By Dr. A. Gunther, F.R.S. 



[Plate XIII.J 



A small collection, made by the Rev. G. A. Shaw, at Fia- 

 narantsoa, Betsileo, Madagascar, contained three species of 

 Chamseleons, viz. Ch. lateralis (Gray), Ch.gularis (Gthr.),and 

 an undescribed species, which may be named 



Chamceleon minor. 



This species is allied to Chamceleon bifurcus, but consider- 

 ably smaller, and also differing from it in several other 

 respects. 



Snout of the adult male produced into two flat compressed 

 horns, slightly divergent in front, and covered with large 

 scutes; they are much approximated at their base, and con- 



