On an Abictinan Cone Scalr. TOo 



ocpIIus ; a dark brown niarkltig, like a Maltese cross, lyini^- 

 across median line posteriorly ; whole head with many lon;^ 

 Avhitish hairs. Eyes prominent. Antennai as h>no- as the 

 whole insect with wings folded, pale yellowish green, with 

 black apices. Thorax strongly arched ; pronotum with the 

 yellow ground-colour, a median and a lateral brown spot, 

 rather hairy ; dorsuUim broader than long, with two lateral 

 acute points, the posterior small, a medio-lateral triangular 

 brown patch anteriorly and a lighter brown median area 

 posteriorly ; mesonotum large, twice as broad as long, almost 

 entirely dark brown except for a greenish-yellow })atch 

 medianly anteriorly, and laterally ; both dorsulum and meso- 

 notum striate; scutellum dark brown, punctate, with strongly 

 developed greenish-yellow fronto-lateral horn-like processes. 

 Legs pale brown, with darker colouring on femora. Tegmen 

 hyaline, no pterostigma, the margin between Us and cubitus 

 with long black-brown marks, a black patch on clavus, length 

 twice the breadth. Abdomen daik brown, with lighter 

 brown on segmental margins. Male genitalia with anal 

 valve large, base broad, apex subconical, external margin 

 about twice the length ot" inner margin; forceps rather long, 

 narrow, rounded at apex, elbowed about one-third distance 

 from apex. 



Length 3'2 mm.; length of tegmen 3*5 mm. 



Panama : V. di Ohiriqui, 25-4000 feet (G. G. Champion). 



LXXX. — On the Presence of an Abietinean Cone- Scale ^ 

 Pityolepis durleyensis, sp. n., in the Bournemouth Eocene 

 Beds. By H. Bandulska, A.R.C.S., M.Sc, F.L.S. 



Among the plant-remains found in the Eocene deposits of 

 Bournemouth, conifers are extremely common, but up to the 

 present no genus of the Abietinese has been recorded. 

 Gardner (1886, p. 135), in fact, says that the Abietineae 

 '^ formed no part of the inland flora of the Middle Eocene " 

 at Bournemouth. 



It therefore seems worth while to place on record the 

 finding of an Abietinean cone-scale in beds belonging to the 

 Bournemouth Fresh-water series at Durley Chine, Bourne- 

 mouth. 



Pityolepis, Xath. 

 Pityolepis durleyensis, sp. n. (See text-figure.) 

 Asymmetrical, somewhat fan-shaped; up])cr Q{\f^Q emar- 

 ginate, raggedly crenulate on either side of the notch ; base 

 Ann. cG Man. N. JJisf. Sor. U. To/, xi. IG 



