NEW LEPIDOPTEKA-HETEROCEKA FROM FORMOSA. 189 



(Verb. d. zool.-bot. Ver. in Wien, 1855, pp. 711-712, and 1862, 

 pp. 320-323) for much of what Kttle we know of the insect. 

 The larva lives in earth or amongst moss. Pupation takes 

 place also in the earth early in the autumn, and the imago is 

 found in the winter from about October till March. The northern 

 part of Great Britain seems to be its headquarters, though it 

 has been taken in the London district — at Southgate and near 

 Croydon, for instance — and there is little doubt that coleo- 

 pterists who work in the winter could without difficulty supply 

 us with fresh localities. 



Explanation of Plate. 



1. Panorpa communis, a, typical male (nat. size), B_yfleet, Surrey, 

 June 1, 1901 ; b, typical female (nat. size), Oxshott, Surrey, June 21. 190i ; 



c, female with aberrant wing coloration (nat. size), Castle Howard, Yorks ; 



d, extremity of a'bdomen of male (magnified); e, appendages of ventral sur- 

 face of forceps of male (much magnified) ; /, head (x 11). 



2. P. cognata. a, male (nat. size), Folkestone, Kent, August IG, 1895 ; 



b, female (nat. size), Folkestone, August 10, 1895; c, extremity of abdomen 

 of male ; d, appendages of ventral surface of forceps of male. 



3. P. germanica. a, typical male (nat. size), Bookham Common, Surrej', 

 June 4, 1904; b, typical female (nat. size), Swanage, Dorset, August 15, 1902; 



c, var. of male (nat. size), Huddersfield, Yorks; d, var. of female, Tongue, 

 Sutherlandshire (nat. size) ; e, extremity of abdomen of male ; /, appendages 

 of ventral surface of forceps of male. 



4. Boreus hyemaUs, female (x 2*4). 



[Figs. 1 d, e; 2 c, d; 3 e, /, are after McLachlan.] 



I have to thank Mr. G. T. Porritt for the loan of the insects numbered 

 1 c, 2a,2b, oc, and Prof. E. B. Poulton for that of 3 d. 



28, Knight's Park, Kingston-on-Thames : 

 June, 1910. 



SOME NEW LEPIDOPTEEA-HETEEOCEEA FEOM 

 FOEMOSA. 



By A. E. WiLEMAN, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 179.) 



Chrysaglia magnifica taiivana, ab. n. 



The ground colour is paler than in typical magnifica, and tho 

 markings are bluer and more metallic ; the spot on the inner margin 

 of the fore wings unites with the costal border. 



Collection number, 751 a. 



A male specimen from Kanshirei (1000 ft.), August 13th, 1908. 



Diacrisia clava, sp. n. 

 (? . Head and thorax brownish buff, the latter with a Ijlack dot 

 on each side; abdomen reddish above, suffused with blackish, except 

 at the base, and barred with black. Fore wines brownish buff with 



