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E. tenax, L. 



This nearly cosmopolitan species, inclnding the variety cam- 

 pestris, Mg., appears quite widely distributed in the Palaearctic dis- 

 tricts of the east^ as it comes from ever}- station in the Himalayan 

 hills. I have taken it myself at Mussoorie and Darjiling, also 

 from localities further east (Hongkong, Shanghai, and in Japan) ; 

 yet I have seen only a very few sjiecimens from the Indian plains 

 (Bareilly, ^leerut) and none at all from any more tropical locality. 



E. solitus, Wlk. 



^ly identification of this species is corroborated by ^Ir. Austen, 

 who has kindly compared specimens with the type in the British 

 Museum. A considerable series in the Indian ]\Iuseum collection 

 shows specimens from Sikkim, Shillong, Kurseong and ^lussoorie, 

 all of which agree well with my own collected examples from 

 Mussoorie, Darpling, China and Japan, and with others taken b}' 

 Dr. Annandale at Naini Tal. Walker originally described it from 

 Nepal. 



MEGASPIS, Macq. 



This is a good genus, but the roughness on the frons, which 

 distinguishes it, is not always easily visible. 



A new species closely allied to, yet quite distinct from, crrans, 

 F., gave me much trouble but ^Ir. Austen confirms it as distinct, 

 and Osten vSacken's note (Ann. Mus. Gen., xvi, 441) about the 

 presence of the metallic spots on the 3rd and 4th abdominal seg- 

 ments, as remarked after comparison by him with the ty]?es con- 



Me gasp is eyrmis, F. _ . 



vinced me that I had correctly determined errans, F., from Wiede- 

 mann's description in his Auss. Zweifl., although that author did 

 not mention these spots. What hindered my recognition was that 

 a specimen of errans was in the Indian Museum collection (apart 

 from other undetermined specimens of the species) labelled in Bigot's 

 handwriting Erisf. cognatus, Wied., a species which is evidently of 

 similar appearance but is a true Etistalis, Wiedemann marking off 

 very clearly those of his species of " Evistalis " which we now place 

 in Megaspis. The spots vary from shining brassy almost to steel 

 colour and exist in a less degree in my new species. 



