200 



Phalanna horsfieldi, n. sp. (PI. LX. fig. 13.) 



Dark brown : fore-wing with a lengthened spot below the cell, in- 

 dented in the middle of its posterior margin, a shorter spot within 

 the cell, and a transverse oblique row of spots near the apex, deep 

 yellow ; a small spot at the base and another near the middle of the 

 wing indigo-blue ; hind* wing with large yellow spot in its middle, 

 and a semi-transparent spot near the base, the upper half of the 

 latter being yellow ; body black ; face, spot on each shoulder, and 

 underside white ; abdomen with two deep-yellow bands, one being 

 situated at the base, the other on the fourth segment ; top of head, 

 thorax, and margin of the other abdominal segments indigo-blue. 

 Antennae bipectinated. 



Expanse ly^inch. 



Hah. Java (Dr. Horsfield). 



Remark. — This species may be distinguished from P. polymeria 

 by the two bands on the abdomen being yellow, whereas in P. poly- 

 melia there are three bands, and these of a crimson colour. P. hors- 

 fieldi is also without the crimson spot in front of the thorax. 



Genus Phauda. 



Euchromia (Phauda), Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. pt. 1. 

 p. 256 (1854). 



Xenares, Herr.-Schseffer, Lep. Exot. Spec. Nov. pp. 58, 81(1858). 



Phauda? maejisa, n. sp. (PI. LX. fig. 14.) 



"Wings pale fuliginous -black ; a band along entire length of costal 

 margin of fore-wing, and another along costal and abdominal mar- 

 gins of hind-wing, and body, pale red. Antennae slightly serrated* 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Hab. Java (Dr. Horsfield), 



Professor Radfcli exhibited numerous preparations illustrative of 

 one of the processes of his new method of preserving animal sub- 

 stances, which were explained to the Meeting by Signor V. de Tivoli. 



Mr. Gould exhibited some specimens of birds of the genus TJro- 

 cissa (Corvidce), and remarked upon the distinctive characters and 

 geographical distribution of the four known species, namely, TJ. 

 sinensis of China, TJ. occipitalis of the Himalayas, TJ. magnirostris 

 of Aracan and Pegu, and TJ. fiavirostris of Bhotan and Thibet. 



Dr. Crisp related an instance which had occurred, to his knowledge, 

 in Scotland, of a Bantam hen sitting upon the eggs of a Water- Ouzel 

 (Cinclus aquaticus), and hatching and rearing one of the young 

 birds, which was fed principally upon porridge. 



