274 MR. R. SHELFORD OX MIMETIC IXSECXS AXD [NoV. 4, 



Zelota spathomelina, sp. n. (Plate XXIII. fig. 57.) 



Nigro-cyanea ; capite fere nigro, in fronte suhniiido, utrinque 

 pone oculxim inferiore'm macula rufo-fulvescente notato ; 

 prothorace transversa, lateraliter rotundato, antice transversim 

 sulcata, tenuissime griseo-ptchescente ; elytris sat demise 

 punctulatis, nigro-cyaneis aut violaceis, utrisqv^ maculis 

 duabus aut trihus rufo-fulvis notatis — %t,na communi paullo 

 pone SGutelhcm, secunda ad marginem externam paidlo pone 

 basin, tertia fere ad m,edhmi disci; pedibus nigro-cyaneis aut 

 violaceis, sparse ciliatis ; tibiis extus in medio alho-cinereis. 

 Long. 7-8 ; lat. 3^-4 mm,. 



Hah. Sarawak. 1 (5" in Brit. Mus., 2 c? d* from Kviching, 

 Sarawak (i?. Shelford), in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



In the two (S specimens in the Hope Museum there is a smaU 

 spot of reddish pubescence just under the anterior part of the 

 lower lobe of each eye, in addition to the somewhat larger rounded 

 spot of the same kind behind the lobe. In these specimens also 

 the third reddish spot of each elytron — that placed a short distance 

 behind the base of the large tufted tubercle, but a little more 

 externally — is present and distinct, and there is a cinereous patch 

 crossing the elytra a little in fi-ont of the apex. 



APPENDIX II. 



Descriptions of additional Species mentioned and figured in 



the accompanying paper. 



[Received January 5, 1903.] 



1. Lepidoptera Heterocera, by Karl Jordan, 



Mimeuplcea tristis, sp. n. (Plate XXL fig. 12, $ .) 



c? , Body olive-black, with a rather feeble greenish -blue gloss ; 

 under side white-spotted as in M. rhadainantha. Wings mummy- 

 brown above and below, not distinctly metallic, except costal 

 margin of fore wing below and a small dot at base of fore wing 

 above. Fore wing, upper side : a series of broad creamy- white 

 streaks from costal margin to SM~, separated by the brown veins, 

 the upper ones reaching from margin halfway to cell, the posterior 

 ones shoi'ter and not quite touching margin. A series of streaks 

 also on hind wing, but here thin, submargmal. The streaks 

 present on under side of both wmgs, broader than above, all 

 I'eaching margin. 



$ . Similar to S ', streaks of fore wing vestigial and narrow 

 above, the five posterior ones ending proximally in a small white 

 spot, streak M^-M^ much longer than the two above and the one 

 below it ; streaks of under side of fore wing broader than above, 

 but thinner than in male and much more clayish. ISTo streaks on 

 hind wing above, but vestiges of them present on underside. 

 (Neuration of this specimen abnormal on right fore wing.) 



Length of fore wing : S 32, $ 36 mm. 



