Insects. 8921 
New Chinese Drypta—I found yesterday a few specimens of the Chinese Drypta 
[mentioned p. 8904 of ‘ Zoologist’], aud so am enabled to send you a rough description 
of him. Please let me know if you recognize the gentleman as a known. species, 
Got a fine brimstone butterfly, too, which does not differ from Gonepteryx Rhamui, 
I fancy. The great Acherontia Atropos has been very common this summer, 
squeaking in our verandahs when most folks were nearly dead with heat.—George 
Lewis ; Kiu Kiang, November 2, 1863. 
Description of Drypta Lewisii of Newman.—Ferruginous-red, with the margins of 
the elytra broadly steel-blue, but terminating before the apex. Head thickly and 
tather coarsely punctured; eyes black and_ projecting. Palpi and mandibles red. 
Antenne pitchy black or brown, with the long joint alone red at the base. Thorax 
thickly and goarsely punctured, cylindrical, hairy. Elytra somewhat elongate, widest 
towards the apex ; interstices finely punctured; strie punctate. Size slightly larger 
than D. emarginata, Fabr.—Zd. 
[Mr. Waterhouse having most kindly undertaken to compare Mr. Lewis’s descrip- 
tion with the species in the British Museum, but without success, I propose to give it 
the provisional, and I would hope permanent, name of its amiable captor.—Adward 
Newman.] 
Hydnobius Perrisii taken in England. 
Hypnosia Perretsit, Fairmaire, Ann. de la Soc: Ent. de France, 1855, Bull. 
p- lxxv. 
I have much satisfaction in adding this fine insect to our lists. The single 
example (a male) taken by M. Perris in the neighbourhood of Mont-de-Marsan, in 
France, on the authority of which the species was founded, seems to be the only 
recorded specimen, but I have recently detected three more (a male and two females) 
among some undetermined Anisotomide in the British collection of the Rev. Hamlet 
Clark, who has liberally presented a specimen to me and another to Mr. Waterhouse ; 
they seem to have been taken some time ago, though in very fine condition, being 
mounted on the old-fashioned triangular point of card, but unfortunately I am not in 
a position to give any definite locality for them. The large size, short antenne, and 
extremely coarse punctuation of this species at once distinguish it from its allies, 
though at first sight it is not unlike a very fine specimen of Anisotoma furva, from 
which its five-jointed hinder tarsi remove it generically. It seems to vary a little in 
size, the largest of Mr. Clark’s specimens being a little over two lines in length; it is 
reddish brown in colour, shining, obese and rather short; the head and thorax are 
very strongly and rather closely punctured, the latter being decidedly transverse, 
margined on all sides, with the lateral margins slightly reflexed, its anterior angles 
obtusely rounded, and the posterior angles rounded off so that it is almost impossible 
to define the point of junction of the sides and hinder margin. The antenne are very 
short, the first six joints being testaceous, and the club (of which the two penultimate 
jvints are the largest) pitchy black; the apex of the mandibles is also pitchy black. 
The elytra are short-ovate, rounded at the shoulders, rather closely and very deeply 
and cvarsely punctured, the punctures running into somewhat irregular lines near the 
suture and at the sides, but elsewhere being confused. The sutural space is rather 
darker than the rest of the elytra, the suture itself being blackish; the sutural stria is 
rather remote from the suture for the upper half of its length, and is thence gradually 
deepened and contracted until it neatly touches the latter at the apex. Fairmaire 
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