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Wings : brown, darker at base, the apical area in the male shot 

 with blue ; in the female with purple. 



Male : front- wings with a large spot near end of cell, and series of six 

 discal and eight sub-marginal spots, all, excepting the three nearest the 

 apex, pale blue; hind- wings with five white points enclosed in blue 

 hastate dashes near the apical margin. Wings below : brown, with 

 eight white sub-marginal points in the front and seven in the hind- 

 wings. 



Female : basal area streaked with dusky whitish ; front-wings 

 with a sub-costal blue and a sub-terminal white spot within the cell, 

 six hastate spots on the disc, blue, irrorated with white, and eight 

 sub-marginal white spots ; hind-wings with six to seven black streaks, 

 terminating in arrow-headed white spots upon the inter-nervular folds ; 

 the fringe of all the wings varied with white. Wings below : brown, 

 the blue spots replaced by whitish ones, the basal streaks more evident, 

 otherwise as above ; body blackish-brown, spotted with white ; expanse 

 of wings, S 3" 11"' ; ? 4" 5"' 



Inhabits Sarawak, Lowe. Coll. Druce. 



This species appears to be a local representative of P. TelearcJius 

 of Hewitson ; like which, Telesiclus and Paradoxa, it closely resembles 

 both sexes of Euplcea Midamus, Linn. 



Zoological Department, British Museum, 

 July, 1869. 



Capture in Devonshire of Hydroporus rninutissimus, Germ., Axib6. — To re- 

 introduce into the British list a species which has already been expunged is at all 

 times a pleasure, but in the case of Hydroporus rninutissimus it is peculiarly so to 

 myself, since I was the person on whose authority it was originally admitted. 

 Three examples, which were given to me many years ago by the late Mr. W. Clear, 

 of Cork, and which he believed were taken by himself near that city, formed the 

 basis for a short notice in the " Annals of Nat. Hist." (vol. xviii, p. 453, 1846), 

 where I described them as the exponents of what I inadvertently conceived to be 

 a new species, under the trivial name of trifasciatus. But subsequent enquiries 

 left little doubt on my own mind that Mr. Clear's specimens were in reality Con- 

 tinental ones ; and so, after remaining for some years in the catalogue amongst 

 " uncertain natives of Britain," the species was altogether struck out, as having 

 been admitted upon evidence which was manifestly insufficient. During a late 

 excursion, however, to Slapton (about seven miles to the westward of Dartmouth), 

 a single example of it was discovered by my wife, amongst the small submerged 

 shingle at the edges of the Ley ; and, being thus warned of its presence, we con- 

 tinued to search patiently until a tolerable series had been obtained. Its habits 

 are precisely similar to what I have observed in the Canary Islands, and elsewhere, — 

 the species delighting in shallow, clear water, amongst the shingle of which it 

 principally resides. 



