Mr. A. G. Butler on 7iew Zephronige. 197 



2. Zephronia marmorata^ sp. n. 



Blackish piceous, irregularly blotched with reddish casta- 

 neous ; head black, excepting at the back, which is piceous, 

 indistiuctly spotted with reddish castaneous ; nuchal plate 

 piceous, with castaneous margins ; terminal segment piceous, 

 witli broad irregularly undulated posterior border. 



In structure it approaches Z. zehraica (of which we possess 

 the type dried and two magnificent spirit-examples, received 

 from the India Museum) ; but it is more convex, a little nar- 

 rower ; the liead, instead of being smooth with a few scattered 

 coarse punctures over the posterior two thirds, is somewhat 

 flattened and irregularly rugose; the nuchal plate is also 

 flattened ; but possibly this may be an abnormal condition due 

 to shrinking. It is, however, distinctly broader in the middle, 

 the dorsal segments are slightly roughened, not punctuated, 

 excepting the terminal segment, which is rather coarsely 

 granulose and laterally a little compressed. Length 

 47 millim., Avidth 22 millim. 



India, exact locality uidcnown. Type, B.M. 



In its marbled character this species comes nearest to the 

 beautiful Ceylonese species Z. versicolor of White ; the latter, 

 however, is a brilliantly polished species, with coarse punctua- 

 tion along the front of the segments, and differing altogether 

 in the outline of the first dorsal segment, which in Z. marino- 

 rata, when viewed from the front, forms a regular arch. 



3. Zephronia harhata^ sp. n. (Fig. 2.) 



Nearest to Z. Jcemssima of India. Head blackish, brown in 

 front ; nuchal plate and first dorsal segment blackish ; second 

 to fifth segments piceous, slightly reddish in 

 front ; sixth to eleventh segments castaneous, 

 with their anterior borders broadly pale 

 testaceous, and the posterior margins black- 

 ish ; terminal segment dark castaneous. 



Head quadrate, very feebly excavated 

 behind, with a rather shallow angular an- 

 terior carina behind the mouth ; slightly 

 depressed on each side in front, rugulose, with a few shallow 

 •coarse punctures, anterior two fifths covered with rather dense 

 short brown hair ; the whole of the head, however, is more or 

 less hairy ; nuchal plate convex, smooth, rather short and 

 broad. Lateral wings of first dorsal segment rather wide and 

 with well-defined marginal carina ; all the dorsal segments 

 smooth, shining, excepting along the anterior borders, which 



