170 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



MeGALGPUS CiERULEUS, Sp. 11. 



Oblong and broadly subquadrate, black below, above metallic blue, 

 finely pubescent ; head and thorax extremely closely punctured ; elytra 

 with basal depression, more strongly punctured than the thorax. 

 Length 8 mill. 



Hah. Bartica, Br. Guiana. 



Head very closely and finely punctured near the eyes, the central 

 portion smooth, in shape of a narrow space, metallic blue ; labrum and 

 palpi black ; antennre black, the lower four joints shining, the rest 

 opaque ; thorax transverse, the posterior angles strongly produced out- 

 wards ; the disc with a deep transverse groove near the anterior 

 margin, and another less deep one near the base, metallic blue, very 

 closely and finely punctured and sparingly clothed with extremely 

 short pubescence; scutellum broad and transverse, distinctly punctured; 

 elytra subquadrate, with a shallow transverse depression near the 

 middle, strongly and very closely punctured, the punctures finer 

 towards the apex, each puncture provided with a single whitish hair ; 

 under side and legs black ; a spot at the flanks of the thorax near the 

 posterior angles and the sides of the posterior femora below, flavous, 

 the latter strongly incrassate, their tibife slightly curved. 



This is the only metallic species of the genus with which 

 I am acquainted, and of which I possess a single apparently 



female specimen. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Further Note on Liphvka brassolis. — Mr. Dodd writes (April 6th, 

 1903) : — "The larva as to which you now hazard a suggestion as to 

 its being ^hrassulls' is, as I have more than once stated, that of a moth, 

 whose history I am partly or wholly familiar with. It comes out of a 

 ground ant's nest." The host ant being different, of course it cannot 

 be " brassolis." I appear to have overlooked or forgotten that the "green 

 ant" and the "ground ant" were not the same. I cannot, however, 

 quite make the above statement, that he is familiar with its history, 

 agree with that quoted {ante, p. 90), that he knows "nothing of the 

 round segmented one, except that it is in the ants' nest and sucks 

 their larva." I hope the errors and misunderstandings into which we 

 have fallen will be ascribed to the difficulty of collating facts with the 

 Antipodes, rather than to an excess of original sin. — T. A. Chapman ; 

 Betula, Reigate : May 19th, 1903. 



Attacks of Parasites on Vanessa Pup^. — The note by Mr. Bird 

 {ante -p. 135) on this subject leads me to send you the following record. 

 On April 8th last, I was at Pegomas (near Cannes), and noticing larvae 

 of Vanessa iirticce, examined a neighbouring wall with a view to seeing 

 how far the broods were advanced at that date. I found larvse 



