64 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



half being darker than the terminal portion. Underside. Both wings 

 cream colour with a slight pinkish tinge, with blackish spots palely 

 encircled. Primaries with a dark crescent closing the cell, a post- 

 median line of six spots, the lowest one being double, those in the 

 radial area are exeurved, the fourth and fifth spots recede sharply base- 

 wards, the sixth (double spot) is shifted outwards. 



Secondaries, with all the spots very small and inclined to 

 obsolescence, but the two sub-costal ones, viz., that near the base and 

 that half-way along the costa, always present and definite though 

 small, the spots in the postmedian row are reduced to mere points and 

 are often absent, there is a trace of a submarginal row of dashes of the 

 ground colour edged with a tone of cream colour paler than the 

 ground. 



2 Pale brown colour, otherwise like the male on the underside. 

 Expanse $ 38-42, ? 38 mm. 



Habitat, Karind Gorge (N.W. Persia), 6,000 ft. July (H. D. 

 Peile). Types in the British Museum, six $ $ and one 5 . 



The Karind Gorge is just over the Persian frontier. 



Lt. -Colonel Peile has generously and patriotically presented the types 

 to the National Collection whilst he has also been so good as to give me 

 a specimen. 



It is I think the most extraordinary Palasarctic species of the true 

 Lycaenbiae that I know, its colour separates it from everything, but 

 the underside pattern shows it to be a near ally of that beautiful 

 species that Staudinger called clavia, with which indeed it was flying 

 when Lt. -Colonel Peile captured it. The androconial scales also 

 connect it closely with the dolus group. 



Cionus woodi : a Species of Coleoptera new to Science ; with a 

 Table and some Remarks on the British Species of Cionus. 



By HORACE DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S., etc. 

 The Bev. Canon Wood asked me to try to identify a couple of 

 specimens of a large species of Cionus, which he had taken by 

 sweeping on the shores of Lake "Windermere in 1914, and which he 

 had been unable to make agree with any of our known British species. 

 Having failed to name the insect with any of the books I could get 

 hold of, or from specimens at the British Museum, 1 sent one of the 

 specimens to Major Sainte Claire Deville for his opinion. He 

 returned it to me remarking that he had never seen anything like it 

 before, and that it did not agree with any species in the latest work on 

 Cionus by A. WingelmiiHer, " Monographie der Palaarktischen Arten 

 der Tribus Cionmi." [Miinchener Koleopt. Zeitschr. % 166-237 



(!914)]. . 



I have to thank Mr. G. K. Marshall who has recently acquired 

 this work, for kindly lending it to me. 



Superficially this new species bears a close resesemblance to our 

 two species C. *crop1udariae,~L. and C. tuberculosus, Scop. ; but it would 

 not come in the same section in Wingelmuller's table. 



In bis table it runs down nearest to Cionus longicollix, Bris., var. 

 monjLanus, Winglm., from which however it is abundantly distinct. 

 According to Wingelmiiller his var. xwntanus is the insect we have 



