1387.] 63' 



StETHOPERMA MULTITITTIS. 



Supra olivaceo'cenea, capiie supra et thorace vitta mediana, elytrisque vittis 

 plurimis alteris longitudinalibus alteris ohliquis,fulvo-tome'ntosis, interstitiis 

 vittarum postice elevatis, nitidis : corpore pedihusque olivaceofuscis, abdomine 

 tarsis tibiisque apice fulvis : capite fulvo-tomentoso vittis olivjceis : antennis 

 nigris. Long., 16 mm. 



Minas Geraes. 



PeEMA SUTtlRALIS. 



Minus elongata, olivaceo-fiisca, thorace vitta dorsali elytris vittis suturali 

 et iiitra-marginali griseis, antennis (scapo excepto) fulvo-testaceis ■ fronte 

 elongata, curinata infra dilatata ; ttiberibus antenniferis longe distantibus, 

 intus elevatis : thorace transversim rvgoso : elytris cuneifor'mibvs, punctatis, 

 basi granulis nonnullis piarvis : antennis ar'ticttlis 1 — 5 infra ciliatis. 



Long., 12 — 15 mm,. 



Possibly the P. aulica of Lacordaire, which, however, is described 

 as having the abdomen red, and the antennae (by implication) densely 

 ciliated as in Onocephala. The name, in any case, cannot stand, as it 

 was pre-occupied by Lucas for an apparently allied species. 



Hio Janeiro. 



Pebma chalcogeamma. 



Fusca,fulvo-cinereo-'puhescens, elytris lineis elevatis plurimis viridi-ceneis 

 nitidis, punctulatis ; antennis (scapo excepto) livido-testaceis : capite et an- 

 tennis ut in P. suturali : tarsis fulvis. Long., 15 mm. 



Rio Janeiro, 



London : May, 1887. 



Mamestra hrassicce feeding on oak. — In June, 1886, 1 found a batch of eggs on 

 an oak leaf gathered from a tree about one mile distant from Bii-mingham. I reared 

 the larvae at first on oat, but when they grew a fair size their nature was plain to 

 the eye, and I changed their food to hop as being more easily procured. .This year 

 (June, 1887) I reared a plentiful stock of Mamestra hrassicce from these oak eggs. — ■ 

 E. C. R. JoBDAN, 105, Harborne Eoad, Edgbaston : July 16fh, 1887. 



Corisciiim sulphurellum at Teignnioiiih. — I was at Teignmouth for a few days at 

 the end of May, and on the 28th I caught Coriscium sulphurellum on a leaf of the 

 smooth sallow in a sallow hedge ; it looked quite at home there. I was very much 

 puzzled at first by the moth, and, indeed, should have remained so, had I not found 

 the following diagnosis in the Tineina volume of the "Insecta Britannica:" "Alis 

 anticis dilute sulphureis, atomis numerosis sparsis fuscis, inferdum in maculas con- 

 fltientibus ;" which was very distinctly the case in my specimen. — Id. 



