256 iNovember, 



gathered. Mr. II. Moore and Mr. II. J. Turner, a large number of Japanese 

 Ilhopalocera. Mr. Turner read a short paper: "Notes on the Butterflies of 

 Japan." Keports on the season were given. The broom was flowering again, 

 butterflies were scarce in Essex, remarkable aberrations had turned up in the 

 New Forest, Pararge megaera 2nd brood was common locally, and Epinephele 

 tithonus was plentiful. 



September 2Qth, 1918. -Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The decease of Mr. W. F. de Vismes Kane was announced. 



Mr. Main, for Mr. Carr, exhibited mines of the Sawfly Phyllotoma vagan^ 

 in alder leaves from Blackheath. Mr. Moore, specimens of a second brood 

 of Sphinx ligustri, Aug. and Sept. emergence. Mr. Main, livinjr examples of 

 Dytiscus circumcinctus, a water-beetle without secondary sexual characters. 

 Mr. Bunnett, galls of Rhodites eglanteriae and R. rosae. Mr. West, examples 

 of the "fire-beetle," Melanophila acuminata^ from Crowthorne, Berks. Mr. B. 

 W. Adkin, aberrations of Pararge megaera, with large ocelli, with small ocelli, 

 with suftused area between central lines, from Dartmoor. The remainder of 

 the evening was devoted to the exhibition of lantern-slides, Mr. Main showing 

 resting positions of native species of Mosq[uitoes and Gnats. — Hy. J. Turin; ki{, 

 Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 



NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SALTATOEIAL DASCILLIDAE. 



BY G. C. CHAMPIOIS', F.Z.S. 



{Contin\Jbed from p. 225.) 



39. — Scirtes sulcigerus, n. sp. 



Oval, flattened on the disc, shining, clothed with very fine, pruino-^e, 

 greyish-brown pubescence; nigro-piceous or piceous, the antennal-jointcs 1-3, 

 the basal margins of the prothorax and elytra, the knees, tibial spurs, and 

 apices of the tarsi, testaceous, the head and prothorax sometimes reddish 

 brown, the maxillary palpi aud the rest of the antennae black, the latter paler 

 in $ ; very densely, minutely, uniformly punctate. Head broad, the eyes large ; 

 antennae moderately long, a little stouter in (5 than in 5? joint 3 slender, 

 not longer than 2, 4-11 each twice the length of 3. Prothorax hollowed in 

 front opposite the eyes, the sides arcuately converging from the base. E.'ytra 

 long, rounded at the sides, narrowly margined, with traces of very shallow 

 longitudinal grooves on the disc, the one next the suture the most distinct ; 

 each elytron in $ wdth a short, deep, oblique sulcus near the sutui-e a little 

 before the tip, and the suture itself triangularly depressed in front of this. 

 Posterior coxal plates subquadrate. Legs rather stout, the posterior pair long, 

 with broad femora, widened, sharply carinate tibiae, and long upper tibial spur. 



Length 3tV-3|, breadth 2-2imm. ( d $ •) 



Hah. Borneo, Mt. Matang, W. Sarawak, alt. 1000 feet ((?. JE. 



Bryant: l.ii.l914). 



