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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EPITOLA (LTC^NID^J 
BY W. C. HEWITSON, F.L.S. 
Epitola Teeesa, n. sp. 
Upper- side {S)'- Brilliant ultramarine blue. Anterior J 
witli tlie costal margin and apex broadly dark brown, and a largA 
of rufous -brown (bordered above with blue) at the end of thj 
Posterior wings with the apex dark brown. ' 
TJnder-side : Anterior wings from the base to beyond the mil 
dark brown, marked between the diseoidal nervures by some in 
tions of blue ; crossed beyond this by a band of six white spots : 
base of the costal margins and apex rufous. Posterior wings ruf 
with the base orange, marked, as in Acrcea, by several round b 
spots : crossed by a band of white, which commences on the cc 
margin below its middle, and, crossing the third median nervule, i 
parallel to the second nervule to the outer margin, forming an obi 
triangle ; the nervules and lines between them dark brown. 
Alar. exp. 2 inches. Hab. Africa (Cameroo 
In my own collection. 
This species is especially interesting, as the imitator in its fai 
{LyccenidcB) of the great African group of the Acrceidce. 
Oatlands, Weybridge, 
August, 1869. 
[The species of Leptalis described by me at page 68 of the pros 
volume was misprinted Desine : it should have been Deione. — W. C. ! 
Occurrence in Britain of Lepyrus Unotatus, a genus and species new to 
lists.— A single specimen of a Rb jnchophorous beetle, which has been identifieft 
Messrs. Smith and C. 0. Waterhouse of the British Museum as Lepynts Unetc> 
was taken in June last by a friend of mine at Minley, in Hampshire, It was fo 
on a dusty road, the adjoining plants being silvery birch and broom.— F. Alf 
Black, Greenhill, Harrow, Jidy, 1869. 
Occurrence of Mordellistena hrevicauda, Boh., in Britain. — On examining can 
Mordellido) taken in June last by me at Folkestone, I find that the insect 1 1 
primo vis-A considered to be Mordellistena x>umila is apparently M. brevicai 
Bohem. ; in fact, I can detect only a single specimen of the common pumila on 
a considerable number of specimens. M. hrevicauda, compared with M. pum 
appears to be larger, especially broader and not so shining ; its thorax is not 
long, with the base less strongly sinuate on each side and the hinder-angles rat 
obtuse and not acutely produced, and its pygidium is not very much longer t) 
the apex of the abdomen, whereas in pumila it is very conspicuously attenua 
