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NEw SPECIES. 
Nora indistincta, sp. n. 
@. General pattern above of N. laverna ?, but much 
larger; the ground-colour pale greyish earth-brown, with the 
discal belt sordid whitish; the outer or main fork of the 
discal belt of primaries ill-defined, broad, only slightly paler 
than the ground-colour; hastate markings small: under 
surface paler than in 1. laverna ? , the basal area yellowish, 
partly washed with opaline; discal belt and external area 
pearly white. 
Expanse of wings 80 millim. 
2, Borneo (Low). Coll. Druce ex Coll. Godman. B. M. 
The male will probably prove to be not unlike that sex of 
N. bipunctata, but larger and more pearly on the external 
area of the wings on the under surface. It seems to me to 
stand between N. bipunctata and NV. decorata. It is possible 
that the above may be the female of an insect which has 
been regarded as the male of V. indras, but which is much 
darker and redder on the under surface, and decidedly larger 
than the male of that species might be expected to be; it is 
also rather a rare insect, whereas both MN. ramada and 
N. indras are common, and, I think, must be sexes of one 
species. 
XLVIT.—On new Species of Histeride. 
By G. Lewis, F.L.S. 
Tuis is the twentieth paper treating of the Histeride in this 
Magazine, the latest bearing the date of last March (p. 241). 
I am glad to be able to notice here another Indian species of 
the aberrant genus Mponius ; it is the seventh species known, 
and I hope some day other allied genera will be discovered 
whose characters may throw some light on its affinities. For 
the present, as formerly, I have put the genus in the list near 
Oylistiz, because the general form is similar and the meso- 
sternum is not acuminate anteriorly like that of the Tryponei. 
In 1870 Marseul placed the Zryponei between the genera 
Lioderma and Apobletes, but did not give his reasons for 
doing so. I think that the Teretrii and Tryponer form an 
isolated group like the Saprint (which have the antennal 
fossettes in the prosternal keel), and that they cannot 
naturally be located in any lineal arrangement ; and being of 
this opinion I am content to leave them in the catalogue in 
the position they have hitherto occupied. 
