134 [ November, 
Metathoracie episterna elongated, narrow, inner margin suleated. 
Anterior tarsi 8 with three dilated, short, cordiform joints, not oblique, 
and furnished beneath with close-fitting squame, in two rows. 
METONCIDUS TENEBRIONIDES, 0. sp.—Oblongus, postice valde convexus, 
niger, nitidus, palpis, antennis pedibusque piceo-rujis, tarsis pallidioribus ; 
. thorace transversim quadrato, antice parum rotundato, postice leviter angus- 
tato, marginibus angustis, angulis posticis sub-rectis, supra impunctato, fovea 
utrinque basali oblonga, profunda, fundo obtuso, levi ; elytris pone medium 
angustatis, postice iterum paulo dilatatis, supra punctulato-striatis, inter- 
stitiis 1, 3, 5, postice punctis majoribus seriatim umpressis ; corpore subtus 
leevissimo. Long. 5 lin. 3. 
Ega, Upper Amazons. 
Kentish Town: October, 1871. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PHOXOPTERYX, FROM GREAT 
BRITAIN. 
BY C. @. BARRETT. 
When collecting in the Norfolk fens this summer, I several times 
met with a very pretty ortrix of the genus Phoxopteryx of Guenée, 
which appears to be undescribed, and which I accordingly characterize 
as follows :— 
PHOXOPTERYX PALUDANA, N. sp. 
Antenne brown. Head and thorax whitish. Fore-wings silvery- 
white, clouded with very pale chocolate towards the hind margin. On 
the inner margin, from the base to the middle, is a chocolate-brown 
blotch, reaching more than half across the wing, and very obtusely an- 
gulated towards the costa. Opposite to this angle, a bright chocolate 
fascia, exteriorly edged with white, rises on the costa, proceeding half-way 
to the anal angle, when its exterior margin forms a very acute angle 
towards the apex of the wing, and touches a cloud of the same colour 
which occupies the tip. On the costa, towards the apex, the usual short 
streaks are faintly visible. Hind-wings pale grey in the male; dark grey 
in the female. 
Allied to Lundana, but with longer, narrower wings, the dorsal 
blotch much flatter and more angulated, the fascia distinct and much 
more acutely angulated, and the space beyond it pale. 
Found flying, just before dusk, among the shortest of the rank her- 
bage at Ranworth fen, in June,.and again in August. 
Mr. Bond has also shown me specimens from the Cambrid geshire fens. 
Norwich: 28th September, 1871. 
