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XXVI. Descriptions of some new Insects, collected in Assam by William Grif- 

 fith, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service, and attached to 

 the late Scientific Mission to Assam. By the Rev. Frederick William Hope, 

 M.A., F.R.S., &; L.S. 



Read November 5, 1839, and April 21, 1840. 



Insects from the Burmese territories, or from Assam, are equally rare ; a 

 few species some years since were brought to England by the late General 

 Hardwicke, from the latter country, and they are now deposited along with 

 his valuable collection of Oriental zoology in the British Museum. A second 

 collection from the same locality, consisting of two glazed cases, were pre- 

 sented to me by Lady Jones. The nondescripts of a third also were kindly 

 given me by Dr. Cantor, the celebrated herpetologist. The only insects from 

 the same regions of my acquaintance which I have not mentioned, (with the 

 exception of Mr. Solly's,) are some magnificent species figured in the Trans- 

 actions of the Entomological Society of London ; they were transmitted from 

 the East Indies to Mr. Rucker : all of them are described as inhabiting the 

 East ; no specific locality, however, happens to be stated. Recognising every 

 species in Mr. Solly's collection (with one exception only), and some of them 

 in considerable numbers, I do not hesitate to give an opinion, that they were 

 also collected in the territories of Assam. The insects which I now proceed 

 to describe for the Linnean Society are entirely new to European entomolo- 

 gists ; some of them are remarkable for magnitude, splendour, and colouring, 

 and I regard them as equal, if not superior, to any of the choicest specimens 

 of our metropolitan cabinets. By permission of Mr. Solly, I described a por- 

 tion of the rarities for the Entomological Society of London ; the more splen- 

 did I have reserved for the Linnean, and which I now submit to the notice of 

 its members. 



