222 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Bakei on new 



coxge; antennjB with the first joint considerubly thickened 

 and not reaching apex of head, a little longer than breadth 

 between eyes, which are only subprominent ; third antennal 

 joint considerably shorter than second ; pronotuni depressed, 

 with an obsolete narrow anterior collar, transversely excavate 

 on disk, lateral margins moderately sinuate and narrowed 

 anteriorly, posterior margin moierately concavely sinuate ; 

 henielytra with their margins parallel ; membrane with a 

 small basal cell and three veins ; anterior and posterior 

 femora very strongly incrassated, and spinulose on their 

 under surface ; tarsi three-jointed. 



Owing- to the specimen described being in a cardeJ con- 

 dition, the structure of the sternum cannot be ascertained. 



Type, S. 2)ciralleluSj Motsch. {Anthocoris). 



Genus Triphleps. 

 Triphleps tantiliis. 



Anthocoris tantiliis, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 89 (1863). 

 Triphleps indicus, Reut. Monogr. Anthocor. pp. 91, 101 (1884). 



Summarized Disposition of Walker s Genera and Species 

 belonging to the Family Anthocoridse. 



Sjwcies considered valid, but requiring generic revision. 



Anthocoris pro.vinius, Walk. Oat. Het. v. p. 151 (1872), belongs to gen. 



Oxycarenus, Fieb. (Lj'gseidse). 

 pubescens, Walk. he. cit., belongs to gen. Oxycarentis, Fieb. (Ly- 



gaeidse). 

 arctatus, Walk. he. cit. p. 153, belongs to gen. Oxycarenus, Fieb. 



(Lygseidse). 

 Xylocoris fuhescens and fwnipetmis, Walk. he. at. p. 100, belongs to gen. 



Amphiarens, nov. 



Species treated as synonymic. 



Anthocoris subcruciatus, 'Walk. Cat. Het. v. p. 151 {1872),= O.rycaremts 



maculatus, StSl (Lygjeidse). 

 Xylocoris fumipennis, Walk. he. cit. p. 160, = Atnphiareus fuhescens, 



Walk, he, cit. 



XXXIV. — On new Species of Rhopalocerafrom Sierra Leone. 

 By George T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Last year Mr. Cator added considerably to his collection of 

 Rhopalocera in the near hinterland of iSierra Leone, both in 

 species and in numbers^ and he brought home or sent over to 



