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Ocelli in a triangle. The abdominal segments are transverse. There 

 is only one spur on the middle tibiae; it is small. Pronotmn short. 

 Labrum visible at the excised apex of clypeus. 



Is nearest to Elemha, Cam., which may easily enough be 

 separated from it by the eyes not being hairy, by the absence of 

 parapsidal furrows, by the longer and thinner abdomen, of which 

 the second segment is not as long as the first, and by the longer 

 and thinner, more curved stigmal branch. 



Taoga rufipes, sp. n. 

 Antennae black, the basal half of the scape dark red, the legs red, 

 the coxaa dark blue. Vertex black, tinged with blue, the occiput dark 

 green, darker in the middle ; the sides of front blue to near the 

 bottom of the eyes ; the lower part, face, and malar space emerald- 

 green, as are also the outer orbits. The head is closely somewhat 

 strongly reticulated, punctured, the vertex more finely than the rest. 

 On the lower half of the antennal depression is a longish wedge- 

 shaped keel, which becomes gradually narrowed from the bottom up- 

 wards. Basal joints of palpi dark red ; the palpi densely covered 

 with white pubescence. The sides of the head, pleurae, and base of 

 legs densely covered with longish white pubescence. Basal slope of 

 pronotum emerald-green, bluer at the apex ; there is a narrow smooth 

 line down the centre. Mesonotum, scutellum, and apical slope of 

 metanotum purplish black ; a bluish purple mark on either side of 

 the apex of middle lobe of mesonotum, the parts round the scutellum, 

 the apex of scutellum, base of metanotum, apex of propleurae, base 

 and apex of mesopleurna, and the metapleurae bluish purple, the rest 

 of the pleurge blackish purple. Abdomen purple ; the terebra black, 

 the apices of the segments blue, smooth, and shining. Wings hyaline, 

 iridescent, the stigma and nervures black ; a narrow streak along the 

 costa. ? . Length, 14 mm. 



Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt, B.A.). 



Closely punctured, the thorax slightly more coarsely than the 

 head, the abdomen more finely than either ; the punctures on the 

 pleurae running into reticulations. Pleural tubercles large, smooth, 

 and shining. Middle lobe of mesonotum clearly separated, the fur- 

 rows distinct. Malar space as long as the eyes, the middle furrowed. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Lycjsna corydon in Devonshire. — Neither in the recent book, 

 'The Butterflies of the British Isles,' nor in the late C. G. Barrett's list 

 in the 'Victoria History of Devon,' do I see any mention of the occur- 

 rence of LyccBua corydon in Devonshire. It may therefore interest you 

 to know that I caught a male specimen of this species on the Devon 

 coast, about two miles west of Beer Head, on August 6th, 1908. I 

 gave the specimen at the time to a friend who was with me, and he sub- 

 sequently wrote to me that he took another example of L. corydon 

 at the same spot, on August 17th, 1908. The particular sea-bank 



