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the claws appendiculate. The present species and the one 

 described by Clark are large insects in which the claws are 

 much more bifid than appendiculate, but possessing otherwise 

 the structural characters of the genus, for which reason I have 

 included this insect in it. 



LUPERODES LATERALIS, Sp. n. 



Flavous ; the breast black ; thorax transverse, impunctate ; elytra 

 with feeble longitudinal sulci, very obsoletely punctured, flavous, the 

 base and the sides with a deep black band. Length 6 millim. 



Of broadly oblong shape, the head impunctate, flavous, deeply 

 transversely grooved above the eyes, the latter large, frontal eleva- 

 tions feebly indicated ; carina short, but distinct ; antennas long and 

 slender, flavous, the apex of the intermediate joints slightly blackish ; 

 the second, third and fourth joints gradually elongate, terminal joints 

 more slender and elongate ; thorax about one half broader than long, 

 the sides rounded at the middle, the angles slightly prominent, pos- 

 terior margin rounded, the disc entirely impunctate, flavous, scutellum 

 black ; elytra slightly wider at the base than the thorax, rather broad, 

 the disc with feeble longitudinal sulci, the latter impressed with rows 

 of fine punctures (absent in one specimen) of the same colour as the 

 head and thorax, the base with a narrow transverse black band which 

 joins the marginal one at the shoulders, the latter band wider than 

 the basal one and rather suddenly dilated at the middle ; the breast, 

 the intermediate and the posterior femora likewise black, the rest of 

 the under side and legs flavous ; the metatarsus of the posterior legs 

 very long and slender ; anterior cotyloid cavities open ; elyti'al epi- 

 pleurfB broad, black. 



Hah. Solomon Islands. 



Of this very distinct species two specimens are contained in 

 my collection, but the precise name of the island of the group 

 they were obtained at I do not know. 



A VISIT TO FRESHWATER, JUNE and JULY, 1904. 

 By James Douglas. 



Much has from time to time been written about the Isle of 

 Wight as a happy hunting-ground for the entomologist, but it 

 may yet be that an up-to-date account of the possibilities of the 

 neighbourhood of Freshwater will be of interest. 



Arriving about the middle of June and putting up with 

 William Rogers, himself a wide traveller for Lepidoptera, and 

 son of one well known some years ago in the entomological 

 world for his expeditions to South Africa and other places, I was 

 fortunate in being able to acquire much useful information. 



Next day I started for a locality, not yet generally known, for 

 Melitcsa cinxia, where I found a nice colony well established, and, 



