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about three or four rows on the nape. Antennas with the basal joint 

 dark brown, sparsely clad with small flat white scales ; succeeding 

 joints white, with black bands at the insertion of the verticillate 

 hairs; last two joints much elongated; first five joints with numerous 

 linear silky white scales with blunt rounded ends ; verticillate hairs 

 pale ochre-yellow. Palpi four-jointed, about three-fourths the length of 

 the proboscis ; there are a feAv white scales on the upper surface imme- 

 diately in front of the clypeus, a ring of white scales at the middle of 

 the second joint, another ring at the apex of third joint, and the fourth 

 joint is completely white scaled ; the rest scaled with dark brown 

 scales ; the first joint is very short, second joint is very long and 

 in the middle shows a false joint, the third joint is about one-third the 

 length of the second, and the fourth joint is short and always carried 

 bent down towards the proboscis. Proboscis scaled dark brown for 

 about half its length, then there is an incomplete ring of creamy 

 yellow scales, followed by a band of dark brown scales ; the apical 

 fourth is swollen and scaled with creamy yellow scales. Thorax as in 

 the female. Wings with an additional costal spot of white scales 

 between the basal and second spots. Legs with more pale scales on 

 the tibite ; the bandmg of fore and mid legs is rather more evident ; 

 fore and mid ungues unequal, larger uniserrate. Abdomen with 

 a distinct basal white band to the hinder segment in addition to 

 the dorsal white spots. Length of female, 5 mm. ; of male, 5-3 mm. 



"Habitat. — Kuala Lumpur (in jungle five miles away). 



** Time of capture. — April." 



Observations. — Described by Doctor Leicester from specimens 

 bred from larvse taken in bamboo jungle. It is a very distinct 

 species, told at once by the last three hind tarsi being white. It 

 resembles the Finlayas, and can only be separated from them by 

 scale examination. — (F. V. T.) 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



NoTHOCHRYSA CAPiTATA. — I do uot cousider N. capitata quite so rare 

 an insect as my friend Mr. Lucas's note {ante, p. 214), would lead one 

 to infer ; but perhaps it occurs more frequently in Yorkshire than in 

 the southern counties. I have Yorkshire specimens in my cabinet 

 from Castle Howard, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Selby, Skipwith, and 

 York, I also have it from Lincolnshire. Still it seems never to be 

 common anywhere, and I have only on one occasion taken as many 

 as three on the same day. The other British species of the genus, 

 y. fulviceps, is apparently much rarer. — Geo. T. Poeritt ; Hudders- 

 field, Aug. 17th, 1904. 



Note on the Dragonfly ^Eschna cyanea. — The nymphs refused 

 food a few days before emergence, and became very restless. They 



