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Anticlea taiwana, sp. n. 



Head and thorax blackish ; antennae bipectinated ; abdomen 

 brown, blackish at base. Fore wings pale brown slightly suffused 

 with fulvous on the disc; basal fourth blackish, limited by a brownish 

 line ; antemedial line brownish, preceded by a double dusky line, 

 which, together with antemedial, terminates in a black mark on the 

 dorsum ; postmedial line serrate, irregular, indicated by a series of 

 partly black-edged white dots on the veins which towards the costa 

 are connected by a slender black line ; some indistinct and irregular 

 lines before the postmedial, and a series of black dots on the veins 

 beyond the postmedial ; subterminal line blackish, undulated, only 

 distinct towards costa where it is inwardly edged with blackish 

 mixed with brown and outwardly bordered with greyish white and 

 dark grey, and above tornus where it has a blackish mark on its 

 inner edge ; discoidal mark blackish linear. Hind wings fuscous. 

 Fringes of all wings brown, chequered with darker. Under side 

 fuscous, two darker transverse Hnes on each wing. 



Expanse, 28 millim. 



Collection numbers, 817, female, and 1694, male. 



One example of each sex from Arizan (7500 ft.), September 

 13th, 1906, female; August 30th, 1908, male. 



The transverse lines are not very distinct in either of the 

 specimens, but they are rather better defined in the female than 

 in the male. 



CONTINENTAL ODONATA AND NEUEOPTERA, 1913. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon was kind enough to give me a number 

 of Odonata and Neuroptera taken in France and Spain in the 

 summer of 1913. They were : — 



Odonata. 



Libellula depressa, Linn., Biarritz, June 25th, a nice deep-coloured 

 male. 



Orthetrum carulescens, Fab., Biarritz, June 27th, a fragmentary 

 male. Albarracin, June 13th, a female. Another female, with 

 incomplete data. 



*Onychogomp}ms uncatus, Charp., Albarracin, June 6th, a male. 

 Albarracin, June 17th, a male and a female. Biarritz, June 25th, a 

 female. All four were in somewhat teneral condition. 



Calopteryx virgo, Linn., Biarritz, June 25th, a male with broad 

 wings, blue to the tip. 



Calopteryx splendens, Harr., Albarracin, June 7th, one male with 

 the blue colouring only just commencing to show its position on the 

 wing. Albarracin, June 16th, a male in condition similar to the last ; 

 a male without any sign of blue appearing on its wings ; two females. 

 They must be referred to the race or variety xantho stoma, Charp. 



