152 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A NEW SPECIES OF EXILLIS, A GENUS OF 



ANTHRIBIDJE (COL.). 



By Dr. K. Jordan. 



The Entomologist to the Board of Commissioners of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry at Honolulu, D. T. Fullaway, has sent to 

 me for identification a small species of Anthribid belonging 

 to the oriental genus Exillis. It is a new species, which can be 

 recognised among the other species (mostly undescribed as yet) 

 by the following particulars : 



Exillis lepidus, nov. spec. • 



Proboscis and head coarsely rugate-reticulate, the former with a 

 short and deep median groove ; frons without carinae. Eye 

 moderately convex. Angle of pronotal carina rounded off. Elytra 

 rather coarsely punctate-striate, with the interstices convex. 



Eufescent brown, densely covered with a creamy grey pubescence; 

 no markings below, but the upperside variegated with ill-defined and 

 variable dark brown spots : two on occiput, one in centre of pro- 

 notum, and several, more or less confluent and large, on sides of 

 disc, a spot near base of each elytrum, a large one in middle, usually 

 oblique, continued sidewards and forming a kind of interrupted 

 band, a patch or a network of spots at the beginning of the apical 

 declivity, and in most specimens a small spot at the apex. Antenna 

 blackish, segments 1, 2 and half 3 like the legs pale rufous, tarsal 

 segments 2 to 4, apex of 1 and extreme tip of tibiae dark brown. 



Length : 2-2-2-5 mm. 



A small series of both sexes from Oahu, collected by D. T. 

 Fullaway in July, 1921. 



NOTES ON BRITISH ODONATA IN 1921. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 127.) 



In addition to these notes of my own I have received several 

 interesting communications from other Entomologists who devote 

 some attention to our dragonflies. N 



K. G. Blair reports that from 1-12 July Ischnura elegans 

 Vanderl., Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Sulz. (with its var. melanotum, 

 Selys), were found at the Curragh, Isle of Man. On 28 Aug. 

 Aeschna grandis, Linn., and Ae. cyanea, Miill., were met with at 

 Stanmore Common, Middx. 



F. H. Haines, writing 18 Aug., says : " I went again yesterday 

 to the Morden pond to try to get some fresh specimens of 

 Sympetrum fonscolombii, Selys. As I feared, the insect was over, 

 I had been once or twice at the beginning of this month without 

 success. I would not be quite certain that one specimen did not 



