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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OP EPITOLA (LYC&NIDM). 

 BY W. C. HEWITSON, E.L.S. 



Epitola Teeesa, n. sp. 



Upper-side (<$): Brilliant ultramarine blue. Anterior wings 

 with the costal margin and apex broadly dark brown, and a large spot 

 of rufous-brown (bordered above with blue) at the end of the cell. 

 Posterior wings with the apex dark brown. 



Under-side : Anterior wings from the base to beyond the middle 

 dark brown, marked between the discoidal nervures by some irrora- 

 tions of blue ; crossed beyond this by a band of six white spots : the 

 base of the costal margins and apex rufous. Posterior wings rufous, 

 with the base orange, marked, as in Acrcea, by several round black 

 spots : crossed by a band of white, which commences on the costal 

 margin below its middle, and, crossing the third median nervule, runs 

 parallel to the second nervule to the outer margin, forming an obtuse 

 triangle ; the nervules and lines between them dark brown. 



Alar. exp. 2 inches. Hab. Africa (Cameroons). 



In my own collection. 



This species is especially interesting, as the imitator in its family 

 (Lyccenidce) of the great African group of the Acrceidce. 



Oatlands, Weybridge, 

 August, 1869. 



[The species of Leptalis described by me at page 68 of the present 

 volume was misprinted Desine .- it should have been Deione. — "W". C. H.] 



Occurrence in Britain of Lepyrus binotatus, a genus and species new to our 

 lists. — A single specimen of a Rhynchophorous beetle, which has been identified by 

 Messrs. Smith and C. 0. Waterhouse of the British Museum as Lepyrus binotatus, 

 was taken in June last by a friend of mine at Minley, in Hampshire. It was found 

 on a dusty road, the adjoining plants being silvery birch and broom. — P. Alfred 

 Black, Greenhill, Harrow, July, 1869. 



Occurrence of Mordellistena brevicauda, Boh., in Britain. — On examining certain 

 Mordellidai taken in June last by me at Folkestone, I find that the insect I had 

 primo visu considered to be Mordellistena pumila is apparently M. brevicauda, 

 Bohem. ; in fact, I can detect only a single specimen of the common pumila out of 

 a considerable number of specimens. M. brevicauda, compared with M. pumila, 

 appears to be larger, especially broader and not so shining ; its thorax is not so 

 long, with the base less strongly sinuate on each side and the hinder-angles rather 

 obtuse and not acutely produced, and its pygidium is not very much longer than 

 the apex of the abdomen, whereas in pumila it is very conspicuously attenuated 



