XIV PREFACE. 



In Lepidoptera, Mr. Hewitson has described three new Papilio- 

 nidae from the Amazons, under the names of Papilio Bolivar, P. 

 Columbus and Callithea Batesii (Zool. 2976), and a beautiful Pavonia 

 from Rio de Janeiro, under the name of P. Telemachus (Zool. 2276). 

 Mr. Bates has also consigned to Mr. S. Stevens, among innumerable 

 other novelties, an interesting and remarkable form of Glaucopis, de- 

 scribed (App. cxxii) under the name of Myrmecopsis Eumenides. 



Of Diptera, Mr. Walker has described several beautiful species in 

 the rich collection of the British Museum under the following names : 

 Tabanus Pyrausta (App. lxv) from Java ; T. tenens (Id.) from Para ; 

 T. albo-ater (App. lxvi) from Para ; T. viridiflavus (Id.) from Brazil ; 

 T. Fullo (App. lxvii), country unknown : T. fenestratus (Id.), country 

 unknown ; T. vagus (App. lxviii) from Hong-Kong ; T. basivitta (Id.) 

 from Para ; T. viduus (Id.) from Para ; T. desertus (App. lxix) from 

 Para ; T. advena (Id.), country unknown ; T. Sarpa, T. oplus, T. impar 

 and T. truncatus (App. lxx, lxxii) from New Zealand ; T. tripunctifer 

 and T. ustus (App. xcv) from Port Natal ; T. brevivitta (App. xcvi), 

 country unknown ; Cyphomyia ornata, Sargus jucundus, Anthrax 

 bistella, Exoprosopa bizona and Trupanea purpurea (App. xcvi, 

 xcviii), all from Para; and finally Mallophora tricolor and M. albi- 

 frons (App. xcviii), both from S. America. 



To exotic Hymenoptera the only additions are by Mr. S. S. 

 Saunders : viz. Myrmosa nigriceps and Parameria grseca (Zool. 2861) 

 from Epirus : a new genus named Raphiglossa, of which he describes 

 two species, R. Eumenoides and R. Odyneroides : two new species of 

 Hylaeus found in Epirus and named H. versicolor and H. gibbus. 



In Coleoptera, the additions have been numerous and highly inte- 

 resting. Mr. S. S. Saunders has described a new genus and two new 

 species of Stylopites, named Hylecthrus Rubi and H. Quercus (Zool. 

 2808) found parasitical on the new species of Hylaeus already noticed. 

 Mr. W. W. Saunders has characterised several new, beautiful and 

 extremely interesting genera and species of Australian longicorns, the 

 names of which are enumerated below : Enchoptera apicalis and E. 

 nigricornis (Zool. 2973) ; Macrones rufus, Brachopsis concolor, Ste- 



