200 [September, 



are pupse of a new brood reared from larvae taken in June this year. It would 

 appear, therefore, that this insect is somewhat erratic in its development, since a 

 dead specimen of conspersa was brought me by a village boy, who found it in his 

 father's garden as early as the middle of May. 



On June 24th, when driving the spike of my sketching umbrella deep into the 

 Armeria which carpets the slopes high up on the seaward face of the cliffs, I dis- 

 turbed a larva, which, from its glossy red-brown head and transparent green body 

 mingled with pale violet, I judged might be Folia xanthomista ; it quickly strove to 

 re-enter the clump of thrift from which it had been driven, but I secured it, and 

 after feeding for a few days it pupated, without forming a coooon, in a tuft of the 

 Armeria. To-day (August 14th) I have had the pleasure of seeing my expectations 

 realized, as a lovely specimen of P. xanthomista lies before me, slightly yellower in 

 appearance than the Isle of Man specimens. 



The only other species taken by me at the flowers in June were CuculUa um- 

 hratica, and a few common species, such as Xylophasia polyodon and Agrotis 

 exclamationis, the latter was ci-awling, apparently stupefied, over the blossoms. 



Newlyn, Norbiton : 



August lUh, 1898. 



A NEW SPECIES OF SPH^NOGONA FEOM JAMAICA. 

 BT PEECT I. LATHY. 



Sph^nogona Adamsi, sp. nov. 



S . Fore-wings white, hind margin bordered with black. Costa black, with 

 four white elongated spots near apex. Marginal black border commences on costa 

 at termination of second subcostal nervule, runs parallel with hind margin as far as 

 1st median nervule ; between Ist and 3rd median nervules the border is narrower, 

 below 3rd median nervule it widens and terminates on inner margin. Base yellowish 

 near costa, and black near inner margin. Fringes short and blackish. Hind-wings 

 ■white, hind margin bordered with black, inner margin yellowish. A straight black 

 mark at base, commencing at subcostal nervure, crossing cell and following submedian 

 nervure for about one-third of its length. Marginal black border commencing at 1st 

 subcostal nervule, and terminating on hind margin just beyond 2nd median nervule ; 

 a very narrow yellow line beyond the marginal black border. Fringes yellowish. 

 Abdomen, thorax and palpi blackish. Antennae dark brown, indistinctly ringed 

 with paler. 



Under-side. Fore-wings bright yellow. Costa alternately spotted with black 

 and white. A black spot at upper end of cell. A few minute black markings above 

 subcostal nervure, and reddish markings at apex, these being denser inwardly. Black 

 border of upper-side faintly showing through ; inner margin below submedian 

 nervure shuiing white and devoid of scales. Hind-wings orange-yellow, profusely 

 speckled with reddish-purple. A minute black spot at upper end of cell. A small 

 reddish-purple blotch at termination of costal nervure. Abdomen white ; palpi 

 bright yellow. 



