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CONIOPTERYX DETBITA, nOV. sp, 
Fusca : antennis fuscis, basi griseo-testaceis ; palpis pedihusque 
griseo-testaceis ; ore rufo-piceo ; ahdomine sordide auranUaco ; alis anticis 
posticisfere cequalibus, suh-hyaUnis,fuliginosis, venis fuscis. ( ? ?) 
Long, corp, f" ; exp. alar. 2J"'. 
Habitat ad Adelaide in Australia meridionali. In collect. Mus. 
Oxon. 
One example in good condition. Under a high power the 
wings show a few scattered dark powdery granules. In neuration and 
general structure it is similar to G. psociformis. 
Forest Hill, S.E. 
Erebia, Euryale of Es'per, a species of Lepidoptera possibly new to the British 
lists.— I have just examined the typical specimens of Stephens' Erebia Ligea ; and 
provided they were, as Mr. Stephens seems to say, actually taken in Great Britain, 
we shall be obliged to add another Erebia to our lists, inasmuch as the two insects 
which he has described and figured are undoubtedly distinct. 
The following are Mr. Stephens' remarks concerning hia Ligea (Illust. Brit. 
Ent., Haust., vol. i., p. 61) : — 
" Few cabinets contain this insect, which is more to be esteemed from its 
apparent rarity than for its beauty. The only indigenous specimens which have 
come to my knowledge were captured in the Isle of Arran, I believe by Sir Patrick 
Walker and A. MacLeay, Esq. ; but I am not aware of the true locality, or of the 
period of the year, which is probably about July or August." He then adds, " the 
plate has been executed from a fine pair of the insect in my collection." 
Surely we may argue from this that the specimens in Mr. Stephens' collection 
are those taken by Messrs. Walker and McLeay, and, since two gentlemen had a 
hand in their capture, we may surmise that they were possibly taken in different 
locaUties ; but however that may be, the insect which Stephens figures as the male 
of his Ligea is most assuredly the male of Esper's Euryale, and represents the 
variety figured by Preyer in his " Neuere Beitrage," vol. 1, tab. 61, fig. 3 (1833) ; 
it is much too small for Ligea, and has minute and blind ocelli on the upper-side ; the 
under-side of the hind-wings has scarcely a trace of the white band, and the ocelli 
have ferruginous irides. 
The sexes of Ligea do not diflfer in size or coloration, whilst those of Euryale 
are very dissimilar. 
The figures of these insects, being drawn by measurement, exceed the insects 
themselves in expanse of wing, as the setting makes a difierence of three -sixteenths 
of an inch in the size of the flies : the colouring of the figures is not so bright aa 
in the insects themselves. 
As regards the distinctness of Ligea and Euryale I have not the slightest 
doubt, as I have this yeaa* taken both sexes of either species in Switzerland ; and 
I noticed that the latter was most likely to bo found near water, or in moist 
situations, at a great elevation, whilst the former could be obtained everywhere. 
