1866.] ON FORMOSAN LEI'IDOPTERA. 355 



utrinque circa 25 a tuberculis orientibus ; corpore subtus pedibus- 

 que nigris opacis. 

 Long. 2| lin. 



Adorium chrysomeloides. 



Ovatum, flavum, antennis pedibusque piceis, capite maculisque qua- 

 tuor thoracis transverse ordinatis nigris ; elytris viridi-ceneis ni- 

 tidis, dense punctatis. 



Long. 4 lin." 



Ovate, yellowish shining ; middle of breast and abdomen darker, 

 reddish ; the abdomen with a row of black spots down each side^ 

 femora and base of antennae pitchy red ; the rest of the antennae, 

 tibiae, and tarsi darker and blackish. Head shining black, with a 

 very few punctures in a depression between the eyes. Thorax glossy 

 and very faintly punctured, with four large black spots arranged in 

 a row across the middle, and having a smaller spot behind between 

 the two middle ones. Scutellum glossy, dark red. Elytra ovate, 

 not much wider than the thorax at the base ; epipleurae narrow and 

 plane, thickly but not coarsely punctured, shining dark brassy green. 



Seb.ethe balyi. 



Breviter ovata vel suborbicularis, testacea, glabra • elytris macula 

 supra callum humeralem, altera prope scutellum alteraque majore 

 subapicali nigris (macula scutcllari interdum majore et per sutu- 

 ram continuata, velabsente); antennis longitudine corporis, nigris, 

 urticulis duobus basalibus rufo-piceis ; capite sulco transversali 

 inter oculos ; tkorace impunctato, limbo lateral! explanato ■. mar- 

 gine reflexo, ad angulos anticos incrassato ; elytris subtilissime 

 punctulatis. 



Long. 2— 2g lin. 



The genus Sebcethe (subfam. Halticiuce) was described by Mr. 

 Balv in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History ' for December 

 1864. 



6. List of Lepidopterous Insects collected at Takow, For- 

 mosa, by Mr. Robert Swinhoe. By Alfred It. Wallace, 

 F.Z.S., and Frederic Moore. 



This small collection comprises forty-six species of diurnal, and 

 ninety-three of nocturnal Lepidoptera, and bears internal evidence of 

 having been chiefly formed in a cultivated district. It cannot, there- 

 fore, be takeu as furnishing any adecpiate idea of the productions of 

 the island of Formosa in this order of insects. The large majority 

 of the species are those which are widely spread over the Eastern 

 Tropics, and they generally present no striking differences from spe- 

 cimens collected in India or the Malay islands. There are not want- 

 ing indications, however, that a rich harvest of these beautiful insects 

 could be obtained in the forests of the interior ; for the onlv two 



