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1896.
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Part I. (TRANS., pp. 1-128, Proc., i-xvi) was published 30th March, 1896. ee LCs, 129-252, ,, xXvii—xxviil) » Ist June, As Pre Gl He Qe 253-450, ,, XxIx-xxxvi) ,, 30th Sept., 3 aval Vi-3 (Cid ass 451-594, ,, xxxvii-lvi) » 18th Dec., 5 » WV. (———-—— _,, _vii-lxi) » 30th Jan., 1897.
Gwe) ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
FOUNDED, 1833.
INCORPORATED BY RoyaL CHARTER, 1885.
OFFICERS and COUNCIL for the Session 1896-97.
Jiresident. Proressor RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., F.C.S.
Vice-Presidents.
Dr. DAVID SHARP, M.A., M.B., F.B.S. ROLAND TRIMEN, F.RB.S., F.LS. WALTER F. H. BLANDFORD, M.A., F.ZS.
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HERBERT GOSS, F.L.S. THe Rey. Canon FOWLER, M.A., F.LS.
Librarian. GEORGE C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S.
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WALTER F. H. BLANDFORD, M.A., F.Z.S. GEORGE CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S.
Tue Rev. Canon FOWLER, M.A., F.L.S. HERBERT GOSS, F.LS., F.G.S.
Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart., B.A. ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.R.S., F.L.S.
Pror. RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., F.C.S. Pror. EDWARD B. POULTON, M.A., F.RB.S. OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.R.S., F.LS.
Dr. DAVID SHARP, M.A., M.B,, F.R.S. ROLAND TRIMEN, F.R.S., F.L.S., ete.
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MEMOIRS
J. On the Heteromerous Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. By GEORGE CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S.
II. New and little-known Palwarctice Perlide. By KENNETH JOHN Morton, F.E.S. oD 3 eae :
IIT. On the Relation of Mimetic Patterns to the ouae ul Form. By Dr. Freperick A. Dixgy, M.A., M.D., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford S00
TV. The Rhynchophorous Galen of Aina. Rants 1Vie Otio rhynchide and Sitonides, and a genus of doubtful position from the Kurile Islands. By Dr. DAvip Suarp, M.A.,M.B., F.R.S., ete. = oe ase os ses wae
VY. Notes on Flower-Haunting Diptera. By Grorce FRANCIS Scorr-Eniiot, M.A. ee Se., F.L8., ete., communicated by HERBERT Goss, F.L ., Secretary, Entom. Society... eC
VI. Notes on Bee a ae Hpermenia, Chrysocoris, and Beeron torus: By Dr. THomAs ALGERNON CHAPMAN, ee F.E.S sa ie a0 605 é
WT Meee tions of New Genera and Species of Coleoptera from ae Africa, chiefly from Zambezia. By Louis PéRINGUEY,
AVATHIIE eee Gee of New Scolytid trom the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan Regions. By aoe F. H. BLanprorp, M.A., F.Z.S. ot: 500
IX. Notes on Dyscritina ioitgteedbeds Westw. By E. Ernesr GREEN, F.E-S. bey we -
X. On the Courtship of certain rr Acridiidie. By Pro- fessor Epwarp B. Poutron, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.8., ete. ...
XT. Onthe Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies). By Professor SAMUEL WILLIsToN (Dolichopodidz, and Phoridx# by Pro- fessor J. M. ALDRICH), communicated by Dr. Davin SHarp, M.A., F.R.S., on behalf of the Committee for Investigating the Flora and Fauna of the West Indies aes
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CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S. AAT XIII. On the classification of three subfamilies of Moths of the family Pyralide: the Epipaschiinwe, Endotrichine, and Pyraline. By Sir GreorGe Francis Hampson, Bart., B.A., F.E.S. 2 Ere ds il XIV. Notes on Seasonal Dimorphism in South African Rhopalocera, By Guy A. K. Marswatt, F.E.S oo 5ol XV. On the Phylogeny and Evolution of the Lepidoptera from a pupal and oval standpoint. By Dr. THomAs ALGERNON CuapmMaNn, M.D., F.E.S. ... : é Sos. AIT XVI. Termites in captivity in England. By GrorcE D. HAVILAND, M.A., and Dr. Davin SHarp, M.A., F.R.S., ete. 580 Proceedings for 1895... a2 = ats Ste i ets .eei—Lxi President’s Address Ixii Index xevl EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Plate T. See pages 1—54 Plates VIMI., LX., ile . 55—63 OG 2-Glan OUTS SS DS Veg Vic 55 65—79 XIIT., & XIV. See pages 253—416 55 Will ey WAL a 129—147 ERRATA. TRANSACTIONS. Page 456, and throughout Sir George Hampson’s paper, for Hulst., read
Hulst. Pages 456, 457, 458, and 481, for Ivis read Isis. Page 468, and throughout the paper, for Berg., read Berg. Page 485, for Avri read Aru. Page 506, line 2 from bottom of page, dele Z.
Page 507, line 6 from bottom, for Zeit. read Treit. In same line, for vii.
read vi. Page 560, for octaira read octavia, and throughout the paper. Page 563, for ‘‘ Kuysua” read “ Knysna.”’ Page 564, for Crose-Smith read Grose-Smith.
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List of Fellotus
Or THE
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
Date of HONORARY FELLOWS.
Election.
1894 ForeEL, Professor Auguste, M.D., The University, Zitrich.
1884 Miuuer, Dr. Fritz, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
1884 OsTEN SACKEN, Baron C. R., Wredeplatz, Heidelberg.
1884 PackARD, Dr, Alpheus S., Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A,
1872 Saussure, Henri F. de, Tertasse, 2, Geneva.
1895 ScuppER, Samuel Hubbard, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
1871 Senys-Lonccuamps, Baron M. E. de, Liége.
1885 SNELLEN, Pieter Carl T., Rotterdam.
1895 THomson, Dr. C. G., The University, Lund, Sweden.
1893 Warrenwyt, Hofrath Dr. Carl Brunner Von, Trautsohngasse, 6, Vienna.
FELLOWS. Marked * is an Original Member. Marked + have compounded for their Annual Subscriptions.
Date of Election.
1877 Apams, Frederick Charlstrom, 68, St. Ermin’s Mansions, Caxton- street, Westminster, S.W.
1877. ApvAms, Herbert J., Roseneath, London-road, Enfield, N.
1885 ADKIN, Robert, Welljfield, Lingards-road, Lewisham, S.E.
1886 Armorg, E. A., 48, High-street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
1892 Baty, William Edward, Lynwood House, Paul Churchtown, near Penzance, Cornwall.
1894 Baker, Walter F., Trent House, Gainsborough.
1886 Bankes, Eustace R., M.A., The Rectory, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorset.
1890 Barcuay, Francis H., F.G.S., Knott’s Green, Leyton, Essex.
x LIST OF FELLOWS.
1886 BareGaGui, Nobile Cavaliere Piero, Piazza S. Maria, Palazzo Tempi No. 1, Florence, Italy.
1895 Barker, Cecil W. Rownham, Malvern, Natal, South Africa.
1887 Barker, H. W., 147, Gordon-road, Peckham, S.E.
1884 Barrerr, Charles Golding, Jnland Revenue Office, Newington Butts, S.E., and 39, Linden-grove, Nunhead, 8.E.
1865 Barron, Stephen, 114, Sé. Michael’s Hill, Bristol.
1894+ Bateson, William, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of St. John’s College, St. John’s College, Cambridye.
1896 - Beare, Prof. T. Hudson, B.Sc., F.R.S.E., Park House, King’s-road, Richmond, Surrey.
1851 + Beaumont, Alfred, The Red Cottage, Pond-road, Blackheath, S.E.
1893 Bepparp. Frank E., M.A., F.R.S., Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W.
1882 Bera, Prof. Dr. Carlos, Director del Museo Nacional, Buenos Aires (Rep. Argent.), South America.
1885 Breruvune-BakeEr, George T., F.L.S., 19, Clarendon-road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
1895 Bevan, Lieutenant H.G. R., R.N., 2, Lansdown-place, Cheltenham.
1892 Bippreu1i, Walter Cuthbert, 52, The Grove, Bolton Gardens, S.W.
1886 Bippie, F. W., M.A., Lanherne, Albemarle-road, Beckenham, Kent.
1880 BiGNeELL, George Carter, 69, Union-street, Stonehouse, Plymouth.
1879 Buiiuurs, T. R., 20, Swiss Villas, Coplestone-road, Peckham, 8.E.
1895 Brneuam, Lt.-Col., F.Z.8., Bombay Staff Corps, c/o Messrs. King & Co., 65, Cornhill, E.C.
1896 Busnor, Luke, F.R.G.S., E 2, The Albany, Piccadilly, W.
1891 Braper, W. H., F.L.S., 34, Cromwell-road, West Brighton.
1894 + BLacksurne-Maze, W. P., Shaw House, Newbury, Berkshire.
1889 Buanprorp, Walter F. H., M.A., F.Z.S., Vice-PRESIDENT, 48, Wimpole-street, W.
1890 Buatcu, W. G., Knowle, near Birmingham.
1885 Briaruwayt, Lieut.-Col. Linley, F.L.8., Hagle ITouse, Batheaston, Bath.
1886 BuioomrieLp, The Rev. Edwin Newson, M.A., G'uestling Rectory, Hastings.
1876 Borre, Alfred Preudhomme de, Villa lu Fauvette, Petit Saconnex, Genevu.
1875 Borrer, Wm., junr., F.G.S8., Pakyns Manor House, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. ;
1876 Boscuer, Edward, Bellevue House, Twickenham.
1891 Booru, George A., Fern Hill, Grange-over-Sands, Carnforth, Lancashire.
1892 BovuskELt, Frank, 11, Sandown-road, Stoney Gate, Leicester.
1888 Bower, B. A., Langley, Eltham-road, Lee, S.E.
LIST OF FELLOWS. x1
1894+ Bowers, E. Augustus, M.A., Myddelton House, Waltham Cross,
Hertfordshire.
1852 + Boyp, Thos., Woodvale Lodge, South Norwood Hill, 8.B.
1893 1894 1877 1870 1894
1890 1879
1878 1887 1886 1892
1890 1883
1889
Brapant, Edouard, Chateau de Morenchies, par Cambrai (Nord), France.
Breyer, Professor H. G., M.D., Gymnasium, Pretoria, Transvaal, Africa.
Briags, Charles Adolphus, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. ; and Rock House, Lynmouth, North Devon.
Briacs, Thomas Henry, M.A., Rock House, Lynmouth, North Devon.
Bricut, Percy M., Roccabruna, Bournemouth.
BristoweE, B. A., Durlstone, Champion Hill, S.K.
Brona@niart, Le Chevalier Charles, Assistant d’Entomologie au Musée histoire naturelle de Paris, Memb. Ent. Soc. France, and Memb. Geol. Soc. France, Foreign Corr. Geol. Soc. Lond., &ce., 9, Rue Linné, Paris.
Brown, Capt. Thomas, Drury, Auckland, New Zealand.
Brown, Henry Rowland, M.A., 3, Pump-court, Temple, E.C.
Brown, John, 5, King’s Parade, Cambridge.
Browne, Capt. Clement Alfred Righy, R.E., Southern Mahratta Railway, Dharwar, India.
Bryant, George, Somerset Lodge, Old Shirley, near Southampton.
BuckTon, George Bowdler, F.R.S., F.L.8., Weycombe, Haslemere, Surrey.
Burns, Henry, The Free Public Library, Fulham, 8.W.
1896 + Burr, Malcolm, “ Bellagio,” East Grinstead, Sussex. 1868 + BurLer, Arthur Gardiner, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., British Museum,
1883
1886
1886 1885
1860 1880 1889 1890
1886 1894
South Kensington, S.W.; and The Lilies, Penge-road, Beckenham, Kent. Burter, Edward Albert, B.A., B.Sc.,39, A shley-road, Crouch Hill,N.
CaLVERT, Wm. Bartlett, Liceo de Quillota, Quillota, Chili, South America.
CaMERON, Peter, Union Road, New Mills, Derbyshire.
CAMPBELL, Francis Maule, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Rose Hill, Hoddes- don, Herts.
CanvzzeE, Dr. E., Glain, Liége.
CANSDALE, W. D., Sunny Bank, South Norwood, 8.E.
Cant, A., c/o Fredk. Du Cane Godman, Esq., F.R.S., 10, Chandos- street, Cavendish-square, W.
CapPeR, Samuel James, F.L.S. (President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society), Huyton Park, near Liverpool.
Carron, Edward, M.D., Shere, Guildford, Surrey.
CaraccioLo, H., H.M. Customs, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies.
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1892 CarpEenreR, The Honble. Mrs. Beatrice, Kiplin, Northallerton, Yorkshire. 1895 Carpenter, G. H., B.Sc., Musenm of Science and Art, Dublin. 1868 Carrincron, Charles, Carylls, Fay Gate, Horsham. 1890 Carter, George Wm., M.A., F.1.8., Cliff End House, Scarboro’. 1895 CarTER, Sir Gilbert, K.C.M.G., Government House, Lagos, West Africa. 1889 + Cave, Charles, 13, Lowndes-square, S.W. .1871 Campion, George C., F.Z.S., Liprartan, Heatherside, Horsell, Woking, Surrey ; and 10, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W. 1891 CHapMan, Thomas Algernon, M.D., care of Mrs. Milligan, 3, Mor- land-terrace, Manor-road, Liscard, Cheshire. 1890 CHATTERTON, Frederick J.8., 78, Clissold-road, Stoke Newington, N. 1891 + Cuirry, Arthur J., M.A., 27, Hereford-square, S.W. 1889 Curisty, W. M., M.A., Watergate, Emsworth, Sussex. 1886 + CLarK, John Adolphus, The Broadway, London Fields, N.E. 1867 CxiaRKE, Alex. Henry, 109, Warwick-road, Earl's Court, S.W. 1886 CLARKE, Charles Baron, M.A., F.R.S., F.LS., F.G.S., 13, Kew Gardens-road, Kew, S.W. 1891 Cuarke, Henry Shortridge, 2, Osborne-terrace, Douglas, Isle of Man. 1891 CocKERELL, Theodore D.A., F.Z.S., Mesilla, New Mexico, U.S.A. 1874 Cock ie, Major George, M.A., B.Mus., Oxon., 9, Bolton-gardens,S.W. 1873 Coxe, William, 7, Knighton Villas, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. 1892 Cowan, Thomas William, F.L.S., F.G.8., F.R.M.S., 31, Belsize Park Gardens, Hampstead, N.W., and Penleaze, Fowey, Cornwall. 1886 CoweE Lt, Peter (Librarian of the Liverpool Free Public Library), William Brown-street, Liverpool. 1867 Cox, Herbert Ed., c/o F. S. Eve, Esq., 125, Harley-street, W. 1895 CRABTREE, Benjamin Hill, The Oaklands, Levenshulme, Manchester. 1888 CreGor, J. P., P.O. Box 1420, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1890 CREWE, Sir Vauncey Harpur, Bart., Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. 1880 +tCrisp, Frank, LL.B., B.A., Treasurer L.S., F.G.S., Treasurer R.M.S., 5, Lansdowne-road, Notting Hill, W. 1888 Croker, A. J., 90, Albert-road, Walthamstow. 1895 Crompton, Sidney, Salamanca, Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, Canary Islands. 1883 CROWLEY, Philip, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Waddon House, Croydon.
1873 Dae, C. W., Glanville’s Wootton, Sherborne, Dorset.
1887 Datrry, The Rev. Thomas W., M.A., F.L.S., Madeley Vicarage, Newcastle, Staffordshire.
1886 Dannart, Walter, F.Z.S., Ivy Dene, Westcombe Park, Blackheath, S.E.
1892 tDeNNIs, George Christopher, 39, Blossom-street, York.
1885 1886
1875
1887
1895 1896
1891 1885
1873 1886
1845
1884
1867
1894
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Dent, Hastings Charles, C.E., F.L.S., 20, Thurloe-sguare, S.W.
Dickson, The Rev. Prof. William Purdie, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Divinity ia the University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Distant, Wm. Lucas, 4, Westbourne-terrace, Lower Addiscomlc, Surrey.
Dixey, Frederick Augustus, M.A., M.D., Fellow and Bursar of Wadham College, Wadham College, Oxford. Dosson, H. T., Ivy House, Acacia Grove, New Malden, Surrey. Do.py-TyY er, Charles H., F.R.G.S., Corresponding Member of the Italian Anthropological Society, British Vice- Consul, Panama. DONISTHORPE, Horace St. John K., 73, West Cromwell-road, S.W. Donovan, Surg.-Captain Charles, M.D., Mangalore, South Canara, India.
Doria, Marquis Giacomo, Strada Nuova, Genoa.}
Dormer, The Right Honourable Lord, Cox’s Hotel, Jermyn-strect, S.W.
DovuGias, John Wm., Dartmouth Lodge, 153, Lewisham -road, Lewisham, S.E.
Drucr, Hamilton H. C. J., F.Z.S., 48, Cireus-road, St. John’s Wood, N.W.
Druce, Herbert, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 43, Circus-road, St. John’s Wood, INAV. «
DupGeEon, G. C., Fagoo Tea Estate, Sailihat P.O., vid Julpiguri, India.
1849 }DuNNING, Joseph Wm., M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 4, Talbot-square,
1883
Paddington, W. Durrant, John Hartley, The Cottage, Merton Hall, Thetford, Norfolk.
Eastwoop, John Edmund, Enton Lodge, Witley, Godalming.
Eaton, The Rev. Alfred Edwin, M.A, care of R.S. Eaton, Esq., 4, Belfield-terrace, Weymouth, Dorset.
Epwarps, James, Colesborne, Andoversford, R.S.O., Gloucestershire.
Epwarbs, Stanley, F.L.8., F.Z.8., Kidbrook-lodge, Blackheath, S.E.
Eis, John W., M.B., L.R.C.P., 18, Rodney-street, Liverpool.
E.wes, Henry John, J.P., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Colesborne, Andovers- ford, R.S.O., Gloucestershire.
Enock, Frederick, F.L.S., 21, Manor-gardens, Holloway, N.
Farn, Albert Brydges, Mount Nod, Greenhithe, Kent; and Medical Department, Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.
Farren, William, Fern House, Union-road, Cambridge.
Fenn, Charles, Eversden House, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, S.E.
Xiv 1886 1881
1889 1878
1874 1886 1865
LIST OF FELLOWS.
Fenwick, Nicholas Percival, Holmwood, South Bank, Surbiton Hill, Kingston-on-Thames.
Ferepay, R. W., Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
FERNALD, Prof. C. H., Amherst, Mass., U.S.A.
Finz1, John A., Hanover Lodge, 77, St. Helen’s-gardens, N. Kensington, W.
Fitcu, Edward A., F.L.S., Brick House, Maldon, Essex.
Fitrcnu, Frederick, Hudleigh House, Highbury New Park, N.
FLETcHenR, J. E., 2, Bedwardine-road, St. Johns, Worcester.
1883+ FLErcHER, William Holland B., M.A., Fairlawn, Worthing,
1892 1885 1880
1883 1896 1888
1891 1855
1889 1884
1887
Sussex.
FLEUTIAUX, Edmond, 1, Rue Malus, Place Monge, Paris.
ForKer, A. J. F., Ziertkzee, Zeeland, Netherlands.
Fowrer, The Rev. Canon, M.A., F.L.8S., Secrerary, The School House, Lincoln.
FREEMAN, Francis Ford, Abbotsfield, Tavistock, South Devon.
FREKE, Percy Evans, Step House, Borris, Co. Carlow, Ireland.
FREMLIN, H. Stuart, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Mereworth, Maidstone, Kent.
FROHAWKE, F. W., 39, Dornton-road, Balham, S.W.
Fry, Alexander, F.U.8., Thornhill House, Dulwich Wood Park, Norwood, 8.E.
Fryer, Charles John, 410, Wandsworth-road, 8.W.
Fuuuer, The Rey. Alfred, M.A., The Lodge, 7, Sydenham-hill, Sydenham, S.E.
GAHAN, Charles Joseph, M.A., British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington, S.W.; and 16, Ashehurch-grove, Shephera’s Bush, W.
Gate, G. H., Public Works Department, Hong Kong.
GaLTON, Francis, M.A., D.C.L., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.G.S8., 42, Rutland Gate, S.W.
GarpeE, Philip de la, R.N., H.M.S. “Goldfinch,” Australian Station.
GARDNER, John, 6, Friars-gate, Hartlepool.
Gipps, Arthur Ernest, F.L.S., Avenue House, St. Albans, Hert- Sordshire.
+Gopman, Frederick Du Cane, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S8., South Lodge, Lower Beeding, Horsham, Sussex; 7, Carlos-place, Girosvenor- square ; and 10, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.
GoLpruwalte, Oliver, 38, Duke of Edinburgh-road, Carshalton, Surrey.
+Goopricu, Captain Arthur Mainwaring, Lennox Lodge, Malvern Links.
Goruam, Rey. Henry Stephen, F.Z.S., The Chestnuts, Shirley
Warren, Southampton.
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1874 Goss, Herbert, F.L.S., F.G.S., Secretary, The Avenue, Surbiton-hill, Kingston-on-Thames; and 11, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W.
1886 GREEN, A. P., Colombo, Ceylon.
1891 GREEN, E. Ernest, c/o Mrs. Blunt, Mote Hall, Bearsted, Maidstone, Kent.
1894 GREEN, Joseph F., West Lodge, Blackheath, S.K.
1865 GREENE, The Rev Joseph, M.A., Rostrevor, Clifton, Bristol.
1893 + GREENWoop, Henry Powis, F.L.S., care of Thomas Greenwood, Esq., Belle Vue, London-road, near Salisbury.
1888 Grirritus, G. C., 43, Caledonian-place, Clifton, Bristol.
1894 GrimsHaw, Percy H., Natural History Department, Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh.
1890+ Haut, A. E., Norbury, Pitsmoor, Sheffield.
1885 Hawt, Thomas William, “ Stanhope,” The Crescent, Croydon.
1891 Hampson, Sir George Francis, Bart., B.A., 36, Tedworth-square, Chelsea, S.W.
1891 Hanbury, Frederick J., F.L.S., 69, Clapton Common, Clapton, N.E.
1877 Harpinc, George, The Grove, Fishponds, Bristol.
1889 Harrison, John, 7, Gawber-road, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
1892 Heapty, Charles Burnard, Two Elms, Alexandra-road, Stoneygate, Leicester.
1892 Hearn, Edward Alfred, M.D., F.L.S., 114, Ebury-street, Pimlico, So Wie
1889 Henn, Arnold Umfreville, Box 1282, Post Office, Sydney, N.S. W.
1881 Henry, George, 38, Wellington-square, Hastings.
1888 Hiaas, Martin Stanger, F.C.S., Tigerfontein Gold Mines, Ltd., Venterskroon, Potchefstroom, Transvaal.
1891 Huu, Henry A., 9, Addison Mansions, Kensington, W.
1876 + HiLLMAN, Thomas Stanton, Eastgate-street, Lewes, Sussex.
1896 Hocxrne, The Rev. John, M.A., Copdock Rectory, Ipswich.
1890 HopGKInson, J.B., Roseberry House, Powys-road, Ashton-on-Ribble.
1888 Hopson, The Rev. J. H., B.A., 32, Milton-place, Halifax.
1887 Ho.uanp, The Rev. W. J., D.D., Ph.D., 5th Avenue, Pittsburg, Penn., U.S.A.
1876+ Horniman, Fredk. John, M.P., F.LS., F.Z8., &., Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, S.¥.
1892 Hoye, Samuel, Audley House, Sale, Cheshire.
1865+ Hupp, A. E., “ Clinton,” Pembroke-road, Clifton, Bristol.
1888 Hupson, George Vernon, The Post Office, Wellington, New Zealand.
1893 Irpy, Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Howard Loyd, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 14, Cornwall-terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W. 1891 IsaBELL, The Rev. John, 65, Waddon Old-road, Croydon,
xvl LIST OF FELLOWS.
1886 Jacosy, Martin, 7, Hemstall-road, West Hampstead, N.W.
1892 Jarrrey, Francis, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 8, Queen’s Ride, Barnes, S.W.
1869 Janson, Oliver E., Perth-road, Stroud Green, N.; and 44, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, W.C.
1886 JENNER, James Herbert Augustus, 4, Hust-street, Lewes.
1886 Joun, Evan, Llantrissant, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire.
1889 JouHnson, The Rev. W. F., M.A., Acton Rectory, Poyntz Pass, Newry, Ireland.
1888 Jones, Albert H., Shrublands, Eltham, Kent.
1894 Jones, Frederic Whitworth, Cleef, Vryburg, British Bechuana- land, Africa.
1894 t JorDAN, Dr. K., The Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire.
1884 Kane, W. F. de Vismes, M.A., M.R.LA., Drumleaske House, Monaghan, Ireland.
1884 Kappet, A. W., F.L.S., Hilden, 20, Sutton Court-road, Chiswick, W.
1876 + Kay, John Dunning, Leeds.
1896 + Kaye, William James, Worcester Court, Worcester Park, Surrey.
1884 Keays, F. Lovell, F.L.8., 26, Charles street, St. James’s, S.W.
1894 KEEBLE, Henry.
1890 Kenrick, G. H., Whetstone, Somerset-road, Edgbaston, Bir- mingham.
1890 Krimper, Miss M., Cope Hall, Enborne, Newbury, Berks.
1889 Kine, J. J. F. X., 207, Sauchiehall-street, Glasgow.
1861 Kirsy, William F., F.L.S., Helden, 20, Sutton Court-road, Chiswick, We
1893 KirKkaLpy, George Willis, St. Abbs, Worple-road, Wimbledon, Savi.
1889 KLAPALEK, Professor Franz, Trebon, Wittingau, Bohemia.
1887 t KLEIN, Sydney T., F.L.S8., F.R.A.S. (Hon. Treasurer, Middlesex Natural History and Science Society), The Red House, Stanmore, Middlesex.
1876 Kraartz, Dr. G., 28, Link-strasse, Berlin.
1895 Kranrz, Paul, Box 413, Pretoriu, Transvaal, South Africa.
1868 Lana, Colonel A.M., R.E., c/o Messrs. King & Co., 45, Pall Mall S.W.
1895 Larrer, Oswald H., M.A., Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey.
1887 t LeEcu, John Henry, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.5., F.R.G.S., &c., Southover Grange, Lewes, Sussex.
1883 LEMANN, Fredk. Charles, Blackfriars House, Plymouth.
1892 Lesuin, J. H., 58, Foxbourne-road, Upper Tooting, S.W.
1876 Lewis, George, F.L.S., St. Regulus, Archer’s-road, Southampton.
1892. Licurroot, R. M., Bree-st., Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope.
1886 Liverr, H. W., M.D., Wells, Somerset.
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LIST OF FELLOWS. XVil
1865 + LLewELyN, Sir John Talbot Dillwyn, Bart., M.A., M.P., F.L.S., Penllergare, Swansea.
1881 + Luoyp, Alfred, F.C.S., The Dome, Bognor, Sussex,
1885 + Luoyp, Robert Wylie, St. Cuthberts, Thurleigh-road, Nightingale- lane, Clapham Common, 8.W.
1894. Lowe, The Rev. Frank E., M.A., St. Stephen’s Vicarage, Guernsey.
1850 Lowe, W. H., M.D., Woodcote Lodge, Inner Park-road, Wimbledon Park, 8.W.
1893 Lower, Oswald B., Bleak House, Park Side, Adelaide, South Australia.
1850+ Luppock, The Right Honble. Sir John, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., High Elms, Farnborough, Kent.
1880 Lupron, Henry, Lyndhurst, North Grange-road, Headingley, Leeds.
1887 M‘Douacati, James Thomas, Dunolly, Morden-road, Blackheath, S.E.
1895 McGreaor, Thomas M., 30, North Methven Street, Perth, N.B.
1851 +t M‘InTosu, J.
1888 Mackinnon, P. W., Lynndale, Mussoorie, N.W.P., India.
1892 Mackonocuikz, The Rev. J. A., B.A. (Chaplain to the Earl of Home), Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire; and The Hirsel, Coldstream.
1858 McLacuuan, Robert, F.R.S., F.L.S8., F.Z.S., TREASURER, West- view, 23, Clarendon-road, Lewisham, 8.E.
1887 Manpers, Surgeon-Captain Neville, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Colombo, Ceylon.
“1891 Mancer, William T., 100, Manor-road, Brockley, 8.E.
1892 MawnsprinGe, William, 21, Rosenau-crescent, Battersea Park, S.W.
1894 + MarsHAatL, Alick, Auchinraith, Bexley, Kent.
1895 Marsuatu, G. A. K., The Master’s Office, Salisbury, Mashonaland, South Africa.
1896 Marsuatt, P., M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S., Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand.
1865 MarsHati, The Rev. Thos. Ansell, M.A., Botusfleming Rectory, Hatt, Cornwall.
1856+ MarsHaLi, William, Auchinraith, Bexley, Kent.
1874+ Mason, Philip Brookes, M.R.C.S., P.L.S., Trent House, Burton- on- Trent.
1895 Massey, Herbert, Jvy-Lea, Burnage, Withington, Manchester.
1865 Maruew, Gervase F., R.N., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., Lee House, Dovercourt, Harwich.
1887 MarrHews, Coryndon, Plympton St. Mary, South Devon.
1860 May, John William, K.N.L., Blenheim House, Parson’s Grecn- lane, Fulham, S.W.
XVill LIST OF FELLOWS.
1872 + MELDOLA, Professor Raphael, F.R.S., F.C.S., PResIpENT, 6, Bruns- wick-square, W.C.
1885 MeEtviLi, James Cosmo, M.A., F.L.S8., Brook House, Prestwich. Lancashire.
1887 MeErRRIFIELD, Frederic, 24, Vernon-terrace, Brighton.
1888 Meryer-Darcis, G., c/o Sogin & Meyer, Wohklen, Switzerland.
1880 Meryrick, Edward, B.A., F.Z.S., Elmswood, Marlborough, Willt- shire.
1894 Mra.u, Professor Louis Compton, F.R.S., Crag Foot, Ben Rhydding, Leeds.
1883 Mites, W. H., The New Club, Calcutta.
1896 Mopertey, J. C., M.A., 9, Radstock-place, Southampton.
1879 Monrerro, Senhor Antonio Augusto de Carvalho, 72, Rua de Alecreon, Lisbon.
1853 Moors, Frederic, D.Sc., A.L.S., F.Z.S., Claremont House, Avenue- road, Croydon-road, Penge, S.E.
1886 Moraan, A.C. F., F.L.S., 24, Leinster-square, W.
1889 + Morice, The Rev. F. D., M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford, Brunswick, Mount Ts mon, We oking.
1895 t Morey, Claude, 34, Berners-street, Ipswich.
1893 Monvon, Kenneth a, “ Salisbury,” Uddingston, N.B.
1889 Mostey, 8. L., Beaumont Park, Huddersfield.
1869 t Mtuuer, Albert, F.R.G.S.
1872 +t Murray, Lieut.-Colonel H., 43, Cromwell Houses, Cromwell- road, S.W.
1896 NeEsuam, Robert, Utrecht House, Queen’s-road, Clapham Park, S.W.
1889 Nevinson, Basil George, M.A., F.Z.S., 3, Tedworth-square, Chelsea, S.W.
1887 Newman, The Rev. W. J. H., M.A., The Vicarage, Steeple Barton, Oxon.
1890 NeEwsreaD, R., The Museum, Chester.
1882 Nictvi.e, Lionel de, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., Indian Museum ; and 13, Kyd-street, Calcutta.
1895 Nicuo.son, Charles, 202, Evering-road, Clapton, N.E.
1886 NicHoLson, William E., School Hill, Lewes, Sussex.
1893 Nonrriep, A. F., Rakonitz, Bohemia.
1886 Norris, Herbert 15, Market-place, Cirencester.
1878 Norriper, iphones, Ashford, Kent.
1895 Norsk, Capone C. G. , F.R.G.S., Indian Staff Corps, 5, St. enh, 8- square, Bury St. ieee
1869 OperRTHiir, Charles, Rennes, France. 1877 OpertTuiir, René, Rennes, France.
LIST OF FELLOWS. xix
1893 + OGLE, Bertram 8., Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire.
1883
1893
OLDFIELD, George W., M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 21, Longridge- road, Earl’s Court, S.W.
OuiveR, John Baxter, 12, Avenue-road, St. John’s Wood, NW.
OLIVIER, Ernest, Ramillons, prés Moulins (Allier), France.
ORMEROD, Miss Eleanor A., F.R.Met.S., Torrington House, Holy- well Hill, St. Albans, Herts.
Pace, Herbert E., 25, Casella-road, New Cross, S.E.
Pavuwcke, Wilhelm, 4, Marienstrasse, Freiburg im Breisgau, Ger- many.
PERINGUEY, Louis, South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.
PERKINS, Vincent Robt., Wotton-uwnder-Hdge, Gloucestershire.
Puitiips, Charles Edmund Stanley, Castle House, Shooter's Hili, Kent.
Prerce, Frank Nelson, 1, The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool.
Pout, J. R. H. Neerwort van de, /ecrengracht 476, Amster- dam.
1870 + Porritt, Geo. T., F.L.8., Crosland Hall, Huddersfield. 1884+ PouLtton, Professor Edward B., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G:S.,
1894 1851
1878 1893
F.Z.S., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford, Wykeham House, Banbury-road, Oxford.
Pratt, John, St. Peter's Park, St. Albuns, Hertfordshire.
Preston, The Rev. Thomas Arthur, M.A., F.L.S., Thurcaston Rectory, Leicester.
Price, David, 48, West-street, Horsham, Sussex.
Prout, Louis Beethoven, 246, Richmond-road, Dalston, N.E.
1882+ RamspEN, Hildebrand, M.A., F.L.S., 26, Upper Bedford-place,
1874 1893
1891 1890
1886 1891
1894
Russell-square, W.C.
REED, Edwyn C., C.M.Z.S8., Banos de Cauquenes, Chili,
Rep, Captain Savile G., late R.E., The Elms, Yaiding, Maidstone, Kent.
Rew, William, Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire.
RENDLESHAM, The Right Honble. Lord, Rend/esham Hall, Wood- bridge, Suffolk.
Ruopes, John, 360, Blackburn-road, Accrington, Lancashire.
Ricuarpson, Nelson M., B.A., Monte Video, near Weymouth, Dorset.
RipinG, William Steer, B.A., M.D., Buchkerell Lodge, Buckerell, near Honiton, Devon.
xX LIST OF FELLOWS.
1853 Riron, The Most Honourable the Marquis of, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc., 9, Chelsea Embankment, S.W.
1889 Roprnson, Arthur, B.A., 1, Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, E.C.
1892 Rosrnson, Sydney C., Goldsmith's Hall, B.C.
1869 + Roprnson-DovuGias, William Douglas, M.A., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., Orchardton, Castle Douglas, N.B.
1890 Rosson, John Emmerson, Hartlepool.
1886 Rose, Arthur J., Brunnen Lodge, Upper Walthamstow-road, Walthamstow.
1868 Roruney, George Alexander James, 8, Versailles-road, Anerley, S.E.
1894 Roruscuitp, The Honble. Nathaniel Charles, F.Z.S., 148, Picca- dilly, W.; and Tring Park, Tring, Herts.
1888 + RoruscuiLp, The Honble. Walter, F.Z.S., 148, Piccadilly, W.; and Tring Park, Tring, Herts.
1890 RourLepaes, G. B., 50, Russell-square, W.C.
1892 RussE 1, 8S. G. C., 19, Lombard-street, E.C.
1894 Rye, Bertram George, 212, Upper MRichmond-road, Putney, So.
1894 Ryxnanps, Thos. Glazebrook, F.L.S., F.G.8., Highfields, Thelwall, Warrington.
1885 Saper, Ernest, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., Lynton House, South Side, Clap- ham Common, S.W.
1866+Satvin, Osbert, M.A. F.R.S., F.L.S., 10, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, W. ; and Hawksfold, Fernhurst, Sussex,
1886 Satwey, Reginald E., Sungate, Hook-road, Kingston-on-Thames,
1865 + SaunpErs, Edward, F.L.S8., St. Aun’s, Mount Hermon, Woking, Surrey.
1861 + SaunpErs, G. S., 20, Dents-road, Wandsworth Common, 8.W.
1886 Saunpers, Prof. Wm., Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada (President of the Entomological Society of Ontario).
1881 Sconuick, A. J., Boldrewood, Ditton Hill, Surbiton, Kingston-on- Thames.
1864 Semper, George, care of Bernhard Beer, E'sq., 10, Newgate- street, E.C.
1862 Suarp, David, M.A., M.B., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., VICE-PRESIDENT, Hawthorndene, Hills-road, Cambridge ; and University Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge.
1883 SnHaw, A. Eland, M.R.C.S., Fakenham, Norfolk.
1883+ SHELLEY, Capt. George Ernest, F.G.S., F.Z.8., 10, Thurloe- square, 5.W.
1887 Sicu, Alfred, Burlington-lune, Chiswick, W.
1887
1869 1895 1885
LIS! OF FELLOWS. Xk
Sip@wick, Arthur, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 64, Woodstock-road, Oxford.
Smiru, Henley Grose, F.Z.S., 5, Bryanston-square, Hyde Park, W.
Smiru, W. W., Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand,
SourtH, Richard, 100, Ritherdon-road, Upper Tooting, S.W.
* +Spence, William Blundell, Florence, Italy.
1889 1890 1862 1837
1889 1896 1895 1882 1884
1894 1876
1893 1892
1886
bo
189 189:
Co
STANDEN, Richard S., F.L.8., Thorpe Hall, near Colchester.
STEARNS, A. E., 99, Gloucester-terrace, Hyde Park, W.
STEVENS, John §., 4, Pope’s-grove, Twickenham.
STEVENS, Samuel, F.L.8., Loanda, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, S.E.
Srraton, C. R., F.R.C.S., West Lodge, Wilton, Salisbury.
STRICKLAND, A. Gerald, Oakleigh, near Ascot, Berkshire.
STUDD, E. F., M.A., B.C.L., Oxton, Exeter.
Swanzy, Francis, Stanley House, Granville-road, Sevenoaks.
SWINHOE, Colonel Charles, M.A., F.L.8., F.Z.S., Avenue Iouse, Cowley-road, Oxford, and Savile Club, 107, Piceadilly, W.
SwINHOE, Ernest, Avenue House, Cowley-road, Oxford.
Swinton, A. H., c/o General Callender, Clovernooke, Redbridge, Southampton.
Taytor, Charles B., Rae-street, Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica.
Taytor, The Rev. George W., F.R.S, (Canada), St. Alban’s Rectory, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
THEOBALD, F. V., M.A., Lecturer in Economic Entomology and Zoology to the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye Court, near Ashford, Kent.
THORNLEY, The Rev. A., M.A., South Leverton Vicarage, Lincoln.
TOWNSEND, Professor C. H. Tyler, Las Cruces, New Mezico, U.S.A.
1859+ TRIMEN, Roland, F.R.S., F.L.S., Vice-PresipENT, 5, Lancaster-
1895 1893
1894 1886
1893
1866 1889
street, Lancaster-gate, W.
TuNALEY, Henry, 30, Fairmont-road, Brixton Hill, S.W.
TurNER, Henry Jerome, 13, Drak. fell-road, St. Catherine’s Park, Hatcham, 8.E.
TurRNER, Thomas, Cullompton, Devon.
Tort, J.W., Itayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, Blackheath, S.E.
Uricu, Frederick William, Railway Extension Office, Arimu, Trinidad, British West Indies.
VERRALL, George Henry, Sussex Lodge, Newmarket. Vivian, H. W., Glenafon, Taibach, South Wales; and Trinity College, Cambridge.
XXll LIST OF FELLOWS.
1895 Wacuer, Sidney, F.R.C.S., Dane John, Canterbury.
1876 WAKEFIELD, Charles Marcus, F.L.8., Belmont, Uxbridge.
1886 Waker, Alfred O., F.I.S., Nant Glyn, Colwyn Bay, Denbigh- shire.
1870 Wa ker, The Rev. Francis Augustus, D.D., F.L.S., Dun Mallard, Cricklewood, N.W.
1878 Waker, James J., R.N., F.L.S., 23, Lanelagh-road, Marine Town, Sheerness.
1863 +WatuwaceE, Alfred Russel, D.C.L., Oxon., F.R.S., F.LS., F.ZS., Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset.
1866 + WatstneuaM, The Right Hon. Lord, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.LS., F.Z.S., High Steward of the University of Cambridge, Merton Hall, Thetford, Norfolk ; and 66a, Eaton-square, S.W.
1886 Warren, Wm., M.A., 80, Prithville Gardens, Shepherd’s Bush, W.
1869 Wareruousk, Charles O., Ingleside, Avenue Gardens, Acton, W. ; and British Museum, Cromwell-road, S.W.
1891 | Warson, Capt. E. Y., F.Z.S., Indian Staff Corps, care of Messrs, King & Co., 45, Pall Mall, 8.W.
1893 Wess, John Cooper, 32, //enslowe-road, Dulwich, S.E.
1876+ WesTERN, E. Young, 36, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, W.
1886 WHEELER, Francis D., M.A., LL.D., Paragon House School, Norwich,
1865 Whurire, The Rev. W. Farren, M.A., Stonehouse Vicarage, Gloucestershire.
1884 White, William, The Ruskin Museum, Meersbrook Park, Sheffield.
1896 Witeman, A. E., British Consular Service, Yokohama, Japan.
1894. Witson, Edwin, Cherry Hinton-road, Cambridge.
1894. Wou.u.ry-Dop, F. H., Box 225, Calgary, Alberta, N.W.T. Canada.
1881 Woop, The Rev. Theodore, 23, Broderick-road, Upper Tooting, S.W.
1894 Woo.r, Michael Yeatman, 1, Marlborough-place, St. John’s Wood, NEW.
1891 Wrouacuton, R. C., Conservator of Forests, Indian Forest Service, Bombay, India.
1888 Yersury, Colonel John W., late R.A., Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, 8.W.
1892 YoupaLe, William Henry, F.R.MLS., 52, Main-street, Cockermouth, Cumberland.
1886 Youne, Morris, Free Museum, Paisley, N.B.
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LONDON For THE YEAR 1896.
T. On the Heteromerous Coleoptera of St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines. By Grorce CaaARLES Cuamprion, F.Z.S.
[Read Dec. 4th, 1895. ] Pirate I.
Tue present paper contains an account of the Hetero- merous Coleoptera collected by Mr. H. H. Smith in St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines, under the auspices of the West India Exploration Committee of the Royal Society and British Association. Mr. Gahan (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1895, pp. 79-140) has already dealt with the Longicornia collected by Mr. H. H. Smith, he at the same time giving a complete list of the whole of the species of that family known to inhabit the West India Islands. It is not proposed to deal with the Heteromerous Coleoptera in the same complete manner, but merely to give an analysis of Mr. Smith’s captures. The collections submitted to me for examination contain representatives of seventy-five species—Tenebrionidz (42), Cistelide (4), Lagriidz (2), Pythide (1), Cide- meridz (8), Xylophilide: (4), Anthicidze (5), Mordellidze (4), Rhipidophoride (2), and Cantharide (3). Of this TRANS, ENT. SOC. LOND, 1896.—PART I. (MARCH.) 1
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number forty-nine are described as new, with three new genera. No species of the families Pythide and Xylophilidee has hitherto been recorded from the West Indies. The whole of the genera, which number forty- six, with the exception of Lorelus and the three new ones, are common to Central America, four (Iccius, Mentes, Sosthenes, and Conalia) not being known from South America; sixteen of them, however, have not been previously recorded from the West Indies: Uloma, Platydema, Talanus, Copidita, Xylophilus, and Anthicus are those best represented ; Lorelus is known only from New Zealand and Japan, and two of the new genera, Lorelopsis and Menimopsts, are closely allied to it. Of the total number of species, exclusive of the five cosmo- politan forms, ten only are common to Central America. Platydema scriptipenne, Fairm., a well-marked form, has only been previously recorded from Madagascar (? in error for Macassar), and Damma Island in the Hastern Archipelago. ‘Taken as a whole, the Heteromerous Coleoptera of these islands show a considerable affinity with the fauna of the north-eastern parts of South America. ‘The number of endemic genera being very few, and the endemic species closely allied to South American forms. It may be noted that several of Mr. Smith’s most interesting captures were attracted to “light” at night.
TENEBRIONID Ai.
Epirraavs. Epitraqus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. et Ins., x., p. 322 ]
(1804); Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., p: 23;
*)
Hpitraqus evxaratus, n. sp.
Oblong oval, convex, obscure reddish-brown or piceous ; thickly clothed with short, appressed fulvous or fulvo-cinereous hairs, the head and prothorax more or less variegated with denser patches of longer, yellowish-white hairs ; the under surface clothed with fulvo- cinereous hairs, and (in fresh specimens) with dense patches of yellowish-white hairs at the sides; the antenna, palpi, and legs reddish-brown. Head broadly and shallowly arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides of ihe front rounded and not prominent,
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sparsely, unequally punctate, the punctures finer at the sides than in the middle; the eyes large, coarsely granulated, and slightly oblique as seen from above ; the supra-orbital carina indistinct. Prothorax convex, strongly transverse, narrowing almost from the base, the sides slightly rounded, the anterior angles rather obtuse, the hind angles rectangular ; the surface thickly, unequally punctate —with spaces here and there more finely and more closely punctured than the other parts,—a narrow space down the middle behind impunctate. LElytra moderately long, wider than the prothorax, rapidly narrowing from about the middle, the apices somewhat pointed : with rows of moderately fine punctures placed in rather broad shallow grooves, which become obsolete towards the apex ; the interstices convex, sparsely, minutely, irregularly punctate. Beneath somewhat thickly punctate; prosternal process lanci- form, horizontal, and received by the short V-shaped mesosternum. Length 73-94, breadth 34-4 mm.(¢ ¢).
Hab. Grenadines—Becquia I., Union I., and Mustique I.
Numerous examples. Allied to H. awrulentus, Kirsch, from Central America and Colombia,* but smaller and
* The Jamaican insect referred by me to this species (Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 23), and of which I have recently received some additional specimens from Mr. Cockerell, proves to belong to another species. The following is a description of it :— Epitragus jamaicensis, u. sp.—Oval, convex, pitchy-black, very finely, sparsely pubescent, the pubescence partly hidden by a dense, mealy, greenish or glaucous efflorescence, the sides of the head between the eyes, and the prothorax and elytra, with dense patches of ochreous hairs, which are only visible in fresh speci- mens ; beneath pitchy-brown, clothed with fulvo-cinereous hairs, and with denser patches of yellowish-white hairs; the legs and antenne piceous. Head very sparsely, coarsely punctate in the middle, the sides and anterior half more closely and more finely punctured, the epistoma arcuate-emarginate in front, the sides of the front not prominent, the eyes coarsely granulated, the supra- orbital carina indistinct. Prothorax transverse, moderately convex, trapezoidal, the sides converging from the base and very feebly rounded, the angles acute ; the surface unequally punctured—with spaces here and there more finely and more closely punctured than the other parts, and transversely depressed in the middle before the base. Elytra rapidly narrowing from about the basal third, somewhat pointed at the apex, slightly gibbous, the disc broadly flattened and declivous from a little below the base; with in- terrupted rows of rather coais: shallow punctures, the interstices flat on the disc, feebly convex beyond the middle and very sparsely, minutely punctate ; towards the sides and apex with
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narrower, and with more slender legs; the elytra regularly convex and more finely seriate-punctate, the interstices more even. From EH. emarginatus and EH. sallei, Champ., it may be known by the sulcate elytra.
ScH@NICUS.
Scheenicus, Leconte, New Sp. Col., p. 109 (1866) ; Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 18.
Schenicus brunneus, n. sp.
Elongate oval, obscure reddish-brown, with a faint seneous lustre, shining, the legs and antenne rufo-ferruginous. Head thickly, rather coarsely punctate, the epistoma rounded anteriorly and prominent, the sides of the front obliquely converging before the eyes, the latter very coarsely granulated, the supra-orbital carina sharply defined. Prothorax convex, strongly transverse, narrowed in front, the sides rounded, the hind angles subrect- angular, the anterior angles sharp but not prominent, the surface thickly, rather coarsely, uniformly punctate, Elytra moderately long, wider than the prothorax, subparallel from a little below the base to about the middle and thence rapidly narrowed to the apex, the apices somewhat acuminate ; coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices flat on the disc, feebly convex towards the sides and apex, and sparsely, very distinctly punctured. Beneath, very sparsely punctured; prosternum abruptly declivous behind ; mesosternum gradually declivous in front. Length 94, breadth 34 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent.
One specimen. Closely allied to 8. panamensis, Champ., but differing from it in its more elongate shape, the less
scattered, irregular, depressed spaces. Beneath, the sterna excepted, thickly punctured; prosternum carinate down the middle, the process broad, rounded at the tip, and received by the very broad, strongly raised, horizontal, V-shaped mesosternum ; metasternum broadly concave in the middle. Length 10-103, breadth 4-4} mm.
Hab. Jamaica (coll. F. Bates ; Cockerell),
The description is taken from three specimens sent me by Mr. Cockerell. Differs from 2. aurulentus, Kirsch, in its more gibbous elytra, smaller size, and more sparsely punctured elytral interstices, the latter very uneven towards the sides and apex. The sculpture of the upper surface is almost hidden by a greenish mealy powder.
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prominent sides of the front (in S. panamensis the head is trilobate in front), the more coarsely granulated eyes, the coarser, sparser, and more uniform punctuation of the thorax, the sides of which are more rounded, the more coarsely seriate-punctate elytra, etc. S.oculatus, Champ., from the Isthmus of Panama, is also an allied form. The genus has not previously been recorded from the Antilles. Schenicus antillarwn, n. sp.
Oblong oval, obscure reddish- or pitchy-brown, with a faint seneous lustre, shining, the legs and antenne rufo-ferruginous. Head thickly, rather coarsely punctate, the epistoma rounded anteriorly and prominent, the sides of the front obliquely con- verging before the eyes, the latter very coarsely granulated, the supra-orbital carina sharply defined. Prothorax convex, strongly transverse, narrowing almost from the base, the sides very little rounded, almost straight in one specimen (¢ ?), the hind angles sharply rectangular, the anterior angles sharp and prominent, the surface sparsely, somewhat coarsely punctate, a narrow ill-defined space down the middle impunctate. Elytra moderately long, wider than the prothorax, narrowing from about the middle; coarsely seriate-punctate, the interstices flat on the disc, feebly convex towards the sides and apex, each with a single irregular row of very fine punctures. Beneath very sparsely punctured ; prosternum abruptly declivous behind ; mesosternum gradually declivous in front. Length 83-9}, breadth 33-33 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent—south end; Grenada—Windward side; Union I,
Four specimens, apparently including both sexes. Very closely allied to S. brunneus, from which it may be separated by the more acute angles to the thorax, the sides of which are straighter and the surface less coarsely punctured, the elytral interstices more finely and not so closely punctate. The general shape is more oval, the insect in this respect resembling S. panamensis.
Crypricus, Crypticus, Latreille, Régne Anim., Ist edit., iii., p- 298 (1817). Crypticus undatus, n.sp. (Plate I., fig. 3.)
Ovate, convex, rather shining; black or pitchy-black, with a brassy lustre ; the anterior margin of the head sometimes ferru-
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ginous, the two or three basal joints of the antenna, and the legs, testaceous ; the elytra with a strongly angulated oblique fascia extending from the shoulder to the middle of the disc, an angu- lated transverse post-median fascia, widening outwards, the two connected at the sides, an elongate-triangular patch on the disc at the apex, excised in front and extending to the suture behind, and one or two oblong spots on the disc, flavous or testaceous ; the under surface piceous. Head thickly, minutely punctate; antennz about reaching the hind angles of the prothorax. Prothorax strongly transverse, gradually narrowing from the base, the sides rounded in front, sparsely, minutely punctate. Elytra forming a continuous outline with the prothorax, obsoletely and very minutely seriate-punctate to about the middle, the interstices flat, sparsely, exceedingly minutely punctate. Beneath very finely pubescent, sparsely, minutely punctate. Legs very slender. Length 3-34, breadth 14-12 mm. (¢ @).
Hab. Grenada—Telescope and Lake Antoine Kstates, on the Windward side; Grenadines— Mustique I.
Sent in plenty by Mr. H. H. Smith. Allied to C. maculatus, Champ., from Central America, but differing from it in the more intricate elytral markings. These latter vary a little in extent; the two fasciz are sometimes connected near the suture by a narrow longi- tudinal line, which extends downwards to the triangular apical mark. In one specimen the suture is brown. The antennz usually have the two basal joints only testa- ceous. ‘The seriate punctures on the elytra are scarcely distinguishable. The genus has not previously been recorded from the Antilles. Under rubbish on sandy sea-coasts (Smith).
OPATRINUS. Opatrinus, Latreille, Regne Anim., ed. 2,v., p. 19 (1829).
Opatrinus gemellatus.
Blaps gemellatus, Oliv., Ent., iii, No. 60, p. 9, t. 1, fig. 8 (1795).
Opatrinus gemellatus, Muls., Mém. Acad. Lyon, ii., p- 299 (1852); Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 421.
Opatrum clathratum, Oliv., Encycl. Méth., viii., p. 499.
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Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side ; Grenada—Baltha- zar, on the Windward side; Grenadines—Mustique I., Becquia I., Union I.
Recorded by Mulsant from Guadeloupe I., Colombia, and Guiana. Not known from Central America. Found in plenty by Mr. H. H. Smith. It has been taken by MM. Delauney and Vitrac in the islands of Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, and Les Saintes, and by the Rev. T. A. Marshall in Antigua.
CrESICLES.
Head sunk into the prothorax up to the eyes, the latter trans- verse and completely divided at the sides; epistoma deeply emarginate in front, leaving the labrum exposed ; mentum flat, small, widened in front, rounded at the sides anteriorly ; apical joint of the maxillary palpi subtriangular ; antenne moderately long, the four outer joints distinctly widened ; prothorax trens- verse, strongly bisinuate at the base, and closely fitting to the base of the elytra ; scutellum small, strongly transverse; elytra convex, oval, obliquely truncate and slightly emarginate on either side at the base, the basal margin raised on either side of the scutellum, the humeri more or less obtuse; mesosternum feebly excavate in front, the sides very little raised ; metasternum very short ; inter- coxal process of the abdomen broad, rounded in front ; inflexed portion of the elytra formed eutirely of epipleure, the latter wide in front and extending to the apex; tibia rather narrow ; tarsi sparsely clothed with long fine hairs beneath, the anterior pair in the male with joints 1-3 spongy-pubescent beneath and more or less dilated ; body convex, apterous, sparsely pubescent.
Two species are referred to this genus. It is allied to Blapstinus, but differs from it in the form of the elytra, the broader epipleurz, shorter metasternum, apterous body, etc. From Opatrinus it may be known by the - non-trilobate mentum, divided eyes, etc. Also allied, but more distantly, to Diastolinus, Muls. Both species live under stones, drift-wood, etc., on sandy sea-shores.
Ctesicles insularis, nu. sp. (Plate I., fig. 2, ¢.)
Oblong oval, convex, opaque above, shining beneath, black, the antenne piceous, with the apical three or four joints ferruginous, the base of the tibie and the tarsi piceous or pitchy-red ; above
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and beneath very sparsely clothed with short, rather coarse, yellowish-cinereous hairs, these being semi-erect and bristly on the elytra and decumbent on the other parts of the body. Head coarsely, closely punctate. Prothorax strongly transverse, rather sharply margined, moderately rounded at the sides, widest a little before the middle, slightly wider at the base than at the apex, obliquely narrowed in front ; the anterior angles rather prominent, the hind angles obtusely rectangular ; the surface thickly impressed with coarse, round punctures, which are here and there separated by irregular smooth spaces. Elytra about two and one-fourth times the length of the prothorax, and a little wider than it, rounded at the sides, with rows of very coarse, deep, not very closely placed, foveolar impressions ; the interspaces sparsely punctate and sharply costate, the cost slightly shining at the top, the third and seventh and the second and ninth confluent behind, the second, fifth, and sixth scarcely reaching the base, the first (or sutural) turning obliquely outwards before the base, leaving a triangular depressed space behind the scutellum, and connected with the fourth by the basal ridge ; the humeri moderately pro- minent. Beneath thickly impressed with excessively coarse punctures.
¢. Anterior tarsi with joints 1-3 dilated; anterior tibiz sinuous within.
Length 53-6, breadth 21-23 mm. (¢ 2).
Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side. Seven examples.
Ctesicles maritimus, n. sp.
Very similar to C. insularis ; the elytra more opaque ; the pro- thorax a little more rounded at the sides anteriorly, the anterior angles less prominent ; the elytra more rounded at the sides and with the humeri more obtuse, the disc transversely flattened or depressed below the base, the seriate impressions not so coarse and more numerous, the interstices strongly convex at the sides, feebly so on the disc, the fourth more raised than the others towards the base.
¢. Anterior tarsi with joint 1 feebly and 2 and 3 more broadly dilated ; anterior tibie sinuous within.
Length 43-6, breadth 23-22 mm. (¢ 9).
Hab. Grenada—Telescope and Lake Antoine Hstates, on the Windward side; Grenadines—Mustique I.
Fifteen specimens, all but two from Grenada.
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ScAPTES.
Scaptes, Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 222 (1886).
Scaptes ciliatus, n. sp.
Ovate, convex, black, the upper surface completely covered with pale brown, whitish, and fuscous appressed scales, which form a variegated pattern on the elytra (patches of light scales alternating with patches of dark scales in irregular longitudinal series), and with scattered, short, semi-erect, hair-like scales,” which are serially arranged on the elytra; the margin of the prothorax and elytra fringed with long, white, hair-like scales, the base of the prothorax also ciliate; the antenne black, yellowish at the tip. Prothorax short, rounded at the sides, narrowed in front, and dis- tinctly narrowed behind. Elytra oval, three times the length of the prothorax, distinctly narrowed in front. Length 4, breadth 24 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent—south end.
One specimen. Smaller and more ovate than S. tro- picus, Kirsch (= squamulatus, Champ.), from Central and South America, and also differing from it, and from S. cayennensis also, in the longer marginal cilia of the thorax and elytra, the thorax distinctly narrowed behind, and the elytra more oval. It is probable that the S. squa- mulatus of Fleutiaux and Sailé, trom Guadeloupe, belongs to S. ciliatus ; their specimen was examined by me some years ago. Under rubbish in low-wooded land near the sea (Smith).
P#ALERIA,
Phaleria, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. et Ins., x., p. 300 (1804).
Phaleria chevrolati.
Phaleria chevrolati, Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 422.
Hab. Grenada—Granville and Telescope Estate, on the Windward side ; Grenadines—Mustique I.
Numerous examples, including the typical form and
* Some authors use the term “hairs,” and others “scales,” for this form of vestiture.
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the var. quadrinotata, Fleut. and Sallé, also a variety with the elytra immaculate. I have examined one of the types of P. chevrolati, kmdly communicated by M. Fleutiaux, whose specimens were obtained at Pont Pierre, in the Les Saintes Is. ‘The insect is narrower and more shining than P. dytiscoides, Champ., from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Central America. Under seaweed (Smith).
Phaleria fulva.
Phaleria fulva, Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 4238.
Var. The elytra with a common discoidal patch fuscous or pitchy-black.
Hab. Grenada—Windward side; Grenadines—Mus- tique I.
Five specimens of the typical form from Grenada, and three of the variety from Mustique Island. The type, from Grande Anse, in the Les Saintes Islands, has been communicated by M. Fleutiaux for comparison; it appears to be somewhat immature. In our specimens the last dorsal, and also the last ventral, segment of the abdomen is infuscate or black. Under seaweed (Smith).
Ozo.Lals.
Ozolais, Pascoe, Journ. Ent., ii., p. 457 (1866); Ann. and Mag, Nat. Hist., 4th ser., viii., p. 351 (1871).
Ozolais tuberculifera, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 1, ¢.)
Broad, very convex, black ; the upper surface tuberculate and sparsely clothed with very short, appressed, hair-like scales, which are in great part hidden by an adherent, greyish or brown, scaly coating ; the antennz black or reddish-brown, the two basal joints usually paler, the club flavo-ferruginous ; the palpi and tarsi, and sometimes the femora also, ferruginous or obscure foeeeae Head with the sides of the front subangularly dilated, the space between the eyes with scattered smooth granular elevations ; antennz moderately long, joint 9 broader than long and nearly twice as wide as 8,10 and 1i subconnate, strongly transverse, 10 much wider than 9. Prothorax very broad, transverse, with the disc gibbous and the sides explanate, rapidly narrowing from the middle for-
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wards, and strongly bisinuate at the base, the latter wider than the elytra ; the sides coarsely and irregularly crenate, the anterior angles greatly produced in front, the hind angles sharp and directed inwards ; the surface studded with smooth, strongly raised, granular elevations, the disc broadly and shallowly grooved down the middle. Elytra about twice as long as the prothorax, rounded at the sides, gradually narrowing from the middle forwards and rapidly and obliquely narrowing behind, very convex, abruptly declivous behind, the humeri acute and directed outwards; the surface studded with strongly raised, subserially arranged, smooth, granular eleva- tions, which become coarser and more scattered towards the suture, and also with irregular rows of coarse, deep punctures, which also become more scattered towards the suture and are usually completely hidden by the scaly coating.
¢. Head broadly excavate in front, the sides of the front strongly and angularly dilated ; the epistoma armed with a long, suberect, flattened process, which is dilated at the tip, the tip itself slightly emarginate.
Length 53-8, breadth 34-4 mm. (d ¢ ).
Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side ; Grenada—Wind- sor and Balthazar.
Numerous examples of both sexes. ‘This species is not very closely allied to any of those from South America described by Pascoe, or to the Central- American forms described by myself. 0. elongata, Champ., from Nicaragua, has a somewhat similar cephalic horn in the male; but the horn in that species is placed on the vertex, whereas in O. tuberculifera it arises from the front of the epistoma.. The smooth granular elevations of the surface arise from tubercular elevations, the inter- spaces being covered with a scaly incrustation, which hides the sculpture and the very short, fine, hair-lke scales. In rotten wood and under logs (Smith).
ARRHENOPLITA.
Oplocephala, Laporte et Brullé, Ann. Sciences Nat.,
xxil., p. 338 (1831) (nomen przocc.). Arrhenoplita, Kirby, Fauna Am.-Bor.,iv.,p. 235 (1837). Evoplus, Leconte, New Sp. Col., p. 128.
Arrhenoplita suilla, n. sp.
Oblong oval, moderately convex, opaque, testaceous, clothed with a very fine, short, pruinose pubescence ; the entire upper
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surface closely, very finely punctate. Antenne short, thickening outwardly, joints 5-10 strongly transverse, 5 wider than 4. Eyes rather small, emarginate infront. Prothorax more than twice as broad as long, rounded and sharply margined at the sides, widest a little before the base, moderately narrowed in front. Elytra about two and one-half times the length of the prothorax, nar- rowing from the middle, subparallel towards the base, without trace of striz. Leg slender, short.
g. Head deeply execayate in the middle between the eyes, and armed on either side with a long, compressed, broad, subtriangular horn, the apex of which is furnished with a few fulvous hairs, the epistoma also with a conical prominence in the middle in front.
Length 2-2) mm.
Hab. St. Vincent—Kingstown.
Two males and one female. Three others (all males), from Guadeloupe I., are contained in the collection of M. Fleutiaux of Paris. This insect resembles the European Pentaphyllus testaceus, Hellw.; but differs from it in having the antenne gradually widened from the fifth joint, the eyes emarginate, etc., as well as in its more parallel shape. It has the facies of a Cis. A. cioides and A. pentaphylloides, Champ., from Central America, and A, bituberculata (Oliv.), are allied forms ; the latter has been introduced into France in an exotic boletus. From <A. cioides, its nearest ally, it may be known by the single tubercle on the epistoma in the male, the closer punctuation, etc. Found “in boleti” in the old Botanical garden (Smith).
PLATYDEMA.
Platydema, Laporte et Brullé, Ann. Sciences Nat., Xxili., p. 350 (1831).
Platydema piliferum, n. sp.
Broad oval, moderately convex, opaque ; black or brownish-black, the suture sometimes paler; the antenne brown or pitchy-brown, with the basal joints, and also the apical one, ferruginous ; the anterior margin of the head, the labrum, palpi, and legs ferruginous ; the under surface ferruginous or piceo-ferruginous; the elytra clothed
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with short, fine, yellowish-cinereous pubescence. Head and pro- thorax thickly, obsoletely punctate, the latter very short and rapidly, arcuately narrowing from the base, the eyes widely separated ; the antenne moderately elongate, joints 7-10 slightly broader than long. Elytra a little flattened on the disc, finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat on the disc, feebly convex at the sides, and obsoletely punctate. Length 63-71, breadth 3-32 mm,
Hab. St. Vincent—Richmond Estate, on the Lee- ward side, and Bow-wood Valley near Kingstown.
Four specimens. Allied to P. sobrinum, Chevr., from Central America, but differing from it and the numerous allied Tropical-American forms in the very distinctly pubescent elytra, the pubescence being visible even in rubbed specimens. This character is quite unusual in the genus, though many of the species when in fresh condition are clothed with a sort of pruinosity which soon becomes abraded. ‘The punctuation, that of the striae excepted, is scarcely visible, except under a strong lens, and the surface is very dull. In a rotten log (Smith).
Platydema apicenotatum, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 5.)
Short ovate, rather broad, convex, opaque ; black ; the anterior part of the head, the oral organs, the antenne, the lateral margins of the prothorax, the scutellum, and epipleurz ferruginous ; the elytra each with four sharply-defined flavo-testaceous spots near the apex—one, very small, on the 5th interstice at about one-third from the apex, one, slightly larger, on the 3rd interstice, nearer the apex, one, rather larger and oblique, at the sutural angle, and one near the lateral margin above this, transverse and equalling it in size; the legs ferruginous, the tibie slightly infuscate ; the under surface pitchy-black. Head thickly, very finely punctate ; antenn extending to a little beyond the hind angles of the pro- thorax, joints 7-10 strongly transverse. Prothorax acutely margined at the sides, rapidly and arcuately narrowing from the base, more than twice as broad as long, almost smooth. LElytra forming a continuous outline with the prothorax, acutely margined, finely punctate-striate, the interstices flat and almost smooth. Length 4,
breadth 24 mm.
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Hab. Grenada—FBalthazar, on the Windward side.
Of this peculiar little species one specimen only was obtained ; it was attracted to “light.” In general shape the insect somewhat resembles P. rotundatwm, Chevr. In the markings of the elytra it differs from all the American species of the genus known to me.
Platydema scriptipenne.
Platydema scriptipennis, Fairm., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 187539: Xxx.
Platydema scriptipenne, C.O. Waterh., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., xiv., p. 66.
Hab. Grenada—Soubise, on the Windward side.
One specimen, agreeing perfectly with the type, which is supposed to have been found in Madagascar (or? Macassar), and with an example found by Mr. J. J. Walker in Damma I.in 1891. Also recorded from India, Siam, Java, and Macassar by Mr. Waterhouse, who incorrectly ascribes the species to Chevrolat. The insect must have been introduced into the island of Grenada. Under piles of decaying wood on the coast (Smith).
LorELuvs.
Lorelus, Sharp, Ent. Monthly Mag., xiii., p. 76 (1876).
The four described species of this genus are all from New Zealand. The following insect merely differs from I. priscus, Sharp, in having the penultimate tarsal joint more feebly excavate above, and the limbs less elongate.
Lorelus brevicornis, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 6.)
Elongate, rather depressed, shining, glabrous, castaneous, the prothorax and elytra (the suture, humeri, and apex excepted) suffused with piceous in one example, the legs ferrugineo-testaceous. Head thickly and rather coarsely punctate, the eyes not prominent ; antenne short, not reaching the base of the prothorax, moderately stout, the joints closely articulated, 3 a little longer than 2, 4-8 short, gradually decreasing in length, 5-8 transverse, 9-11 broader than those preceding, 9 and 10 transverse, 11 short-oval,
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Prothorax wider than the head, truncate at the base and apex, rather convex, strongly transverse, widest in front, the sides some- what obliquely converging from the apex to the base, the margins feebly crenulate behind, the anterior angles distinct but rather obtuse, the hind angles minutely prominent ; the surface punctured like that of the head, the punctuation a little sparser on the disc than at the sides. Elytra considerably wider than, and fully three times the length of, the prothorax, truncate at the base, subparallel toa little beyond the middle and rapidly narrowing thence to the apex ; coarsely, thickly, confusedly punctate, the punctures coarser than those on the head and prothorax. Beneath sparsely, finely punctate. Legs short, the penultimate joint of the tarsi feebly excavate above for the reception of the base of the apical joint. Length 23-33 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side; Becquia I.
One example from each locality; I have also seen specimens of it from Guadeloupe, in the collection of M. Fleutiaux of Paris. One of these latter is labelled as having been found in the stems of a Cissus, a shrub allied to Vitis. In rotten cacao-husks (Smith).
LORELOPSIS, n. gen.
Penultimate tarsal joint strongly lamellate, extending beneath the apical joint to about its middle. Epistoma separated from the front by a distinct groove. Eyes small, rather prominent, entire, projecting far beyond the antennary orbits. Prothorax as long as broad, trapezcidal. Body pubescent. The other characters as in Lorelus, Sharp.
The single species referred to this genus possesses all the structural characters of Lorelus, except as regards the strongly lamellate penultimate tarsal joint and the distinctly separated epistoma. It has somewhat the facies of various Goniaderides and Heterotarsides, but differs from them in the closed mesocoxal cavities, absence of the trochantin, etc. The body in fresh specimens is clothed with very fine, long, erect hairs, which are easily abraded. ‘The elytra are very much wider than the thorax, gradually widened for two-thirds of their length, and confusedly punctate. The thorax is widest in front. The antennez have the apical three joints widened. Like Lorelus, Menimus, and Menimopsis, the
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genus does not agree satisfactorily with any of Lacordaire’s groups.
Lorelopsis pilosus, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 7.)
Elongate, flattened above, shining, when fresh somewhat thickly clothed with very fine, long, erect hairs, which are easily abraded ; piceous or brown, the antenne and legs ferruginous. Head thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate; antennse about reaching the humeri, moderately stout, the joints closely articulated, 3 much longer than 2, 4-8 short, subequal, 9-11 broader than those pre- ceding, 9 as long as broad, 10 slightly broader than long, 11 oval. Prothorax rather convex, slightly wider than the head, as long as broad, truncate at the base and apex, widest in front, the sides a little rounded and gradually converging from before the middle to the base, the angles somewhat obtuse; the surface thickly, moderately coarsely punctate. Elytra elongate, gradually widen- ing from the base to one-third from the apex and there more than one-half wider than the prothorax, abruptly narrowing behind; the surface coarsely, closely, confusedly punctate, the punctures much coarser than those on the head and prothorax. Beneath thickly punctate, the punctures very coarse at the sides, the metasternum sparsely and much more finely punctate. Length 33-4, breadth 13-14 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side.
Two specimens, one of which is completely abraded.
Menimopsis, n. gen.
Head broad, exserted, slightly raised at the sides above the point of insertion of the antenne, the epistoma well defined; the eyes excessively minute, consisting of about eight facets only, lateral ; the labrum prominent ; the mandibles visible from above, emargi- nate at the tip; the apical joint of the maxillary palpi stout, securiform. Antenne very short, about equalling in length the width of the head, stout; the joints closely articulated, 1 stout, 2 smaller, short, 3-7 gradually increasing in width, 4-7 strongly transverse, 8-11 forming a well-defined club, 8-10 trans- verse, each very much broader and stouter than 7, 11 short, oval, narrower and longer than 10. Prothorax short, truncate and finely margined at the base, closely fitting to the elytra, with a sharply- defined, projecting, subcrenulate lateral carina. Scutellum short,
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strongly transverse. Elytra the width of the prothorax at the base, and twice its length, with laterally projecting, prominent humeri, and a narrow, finely serrate, marginal carina. Legs very short, moderately stout ; the tibie rather narrow, the anterior and intermediate pairs slightly rounded on their outer edge, the spurs short but distinct ; the tarsi 5-, 5-, 4-jointed, short, clothed with a few long hairs beneath, the basal joint of the hind pair very short. Cox# narrowly separated. Prosternum declivous and narrowly produced behind, the apex slightly raised. Metasternum short. Intermediate coxal cavities closed externally. Epipleurs broad, extending to the fourth ventral suture. Body elongate- oval, probably apterous.
The single peculiar species from which the above cha- racters are taken is closely allied to the genus Menimus, Sharp; but differs from it in having the antenuw 11-jointed, with a 4-jointed club, and also in the laterally projecting humeri and shorter legs. ‘The eyes are excessively minute, smaller even than in Menimus cecus, Sharp. The genus Menimus contains numerous representatives in New Zealand, and one in
Japan.
Menimopsis excecus, n. sp. (Plate L, fige. 17, 17a, 2.)
Rather narrow and somewhat depressed, rufo-testaceous, shining, almost glabrous (probably clothed when fresh with scattered, long, fine, erect hairs, a few of which are visible upon the head and pro- thorax); the legs and antennex testaceous. Head with widely scattered coarse punctures ; antenne with a few fine bristly hairs. Prothorax strongly transverse, about one-half wider than the head, moderately rounded at the sides, a little narrowed in front, the anterior angles obtuse, the hind angles subrectangular, the surface sparsely, coarsely punctate. Elytra parallel to near the middle and arcuately narrowing thence to the apex, the apices conjointly rounded ; with rows of coarse punctures, which become finer at the apex, the interstices smooth and flat. Beneath very sparsely, coarsely punctate, the propleurze smooth. Length 2%, breadth Imm. (¢9;)
Hab. St. Vincent~—Morne-a-Garon, 1,2C0 feet.
One female example. Under rubbish on a damp rock in the forest (Smith).
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EcHOCcERUS.
Echocerus, Horn, Rev. Ten. of Am. north of Mex., p. 366 (1870).
Echocerus mazxillosus.
Trogosita maxillosa, Fabr., Syst. Hleuth., i., p. 155.
Trogosita mazillaris, Beauv., Ins. Afr. et Amér., p. 125, t. 32, fig. 4.
Gnathocerus mavillosus, Lacord., Gen. Col., v., p. 322, nota; Woll., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., vi., p. 49; Col. Atlant. App., p. 61.
Echocerus mavillosus, Horn, Rev. Ten. of Am. north of Mex., p. 366; Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 146.
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Two examples of this cosmopolitan species, which is, no doubt, of American origin, were found by Mr. H. H. Smith in Grenada. It has already been recorded from the Antilles. Introduced into Europe, Madeira, and the Canary Is.
Iccius.
Iccius, Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 147 (1886).
Iecius rufotestaceus, n. sp.
Elongate, narrow, flattened-cylindrical, shining, clear rufo- testaceous, the elytra paler than the prothorax, the eyes black. Head sparsely, finely punctate; the sides of the front narrowly dilated, obliquely converging forwards, and impinging on the eyes behind, the latter large ; the epistoma in one specimen with a small tubercle in the middle ; antennz short, widening outwards, joints 5-10 very strongly transverse, 11 short oval. Prothorax longi- tudinally convex, subquadrate, a little broader than long, slightly rounded at the sides in front, the angles obtuse ; sparsely, finely punctate. Elytra of the same width as, and about two and one- fourth times the length of, the prothorax, parallel to beyond the middle, finely seriate-punctate, the interstices each with a row
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of exceedingly minute punctures. Anterior tibize widening out- wards, sharply denticulate on their outer edge. Length 3-3}, breadth 2-3 mm.
,
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side.
Two specimens. This and the following species have quite the facies of a Corticeus (Hypophleus), from which genus they may be known by the form of the anterior tibize and by the elytra completely covering the abdomen. In the typical species from Central America the man- dibles are furnished with long erect horns in the male, as in Gnathocerus, Hchocerus, etc. The insects here described are without these appendages, and they are probably all females.
Iecius grenadensis, n. sp.
Closely allied to J. rufotestaceus, and differing as follows :—The head shorter, the sides of the front narrower ; the epistoma limited behind by a deep transverse groove, terminating laterally in a rather deep fovea; the antennze with joints 6-10 very strongly transverse, 5 transverse but much narrower than 6. Prothorax shorter, much broader than long, and more finely punctured. Anterior tibiz narrower, obsoletely denticulate on their outer edge. Length 24, breadth ¢ mm.
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
One specimen, captured on the wing at sunset.
TRIBOLIUM.
Tribolium, Macleay, Ann. Javan., 1825, p. 47.
Tribolium ferrugineuwm. Tenebrio ferrugineus, Fabr., Spec. Ins., j., p. 324 C78) Hab. St. Vincent; Grenada.
The cosmopolitan insect generally known as 7. ferrw- gineum, Fabr., has been recorded by MM. Fleutiaux and Sallé from Guadeloupe; it is probable, however, that the Fabrician name has been wrongly applied.
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ARRHABEUS.
Arrhabeus, Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 144 (1886).
Arrhabeus debilis, n. sp.
Moderately convex, shining, piceous or castaneous, the antennx ferruginous. Head coarsely punctured, deeply, transversely depressed in front, the sides of the front swollen and moderately prominent. Prothorax strongly transverse, about equal in width at the base and apex, the sides slightly rounded and sharply margined; coarsely, somewhat closely punctate. Elytra twice the length of the prothorax, arcuately narrowing from about the middle; coarsely and deeply punctate-sulcate, the interstices convex at the sides, flatter on the disc, and with a few very minute widely scattered punctures. Anterior and intermediate tibix rather coarsely denticulate on their outer edge, the anterior pair widening outwards.
&. Head broader, with the sides of the front more dilated, oblique, and extending outwards nearly as far as the eyes.
Length 23-3}, breadth 1-11 mm. (¢ 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent; Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Numerous examples. This species is almost inter- mediate between Arrhabeus, Champ., and Diwdus, Lec. The type of the first-mentioned, A. convewus, Champ., from Costa Rica and Panama, has much stouter and more coarsely denticulate anterior tibiew, and a very differently formed head. ‘These characters, however, become much less marked in A. guadelowpensis, Fleut. and Sallé, and the present insect. In Dicedus the anterior tibize are rather narrow, and the sides of the front are not swollen. A. debilis is smaller and less convex than A. guadeloupensis, and it has the punctuation of the thorax and elytra much coarser. From Diewdus punctatus, Lec., an insect found under pine-bark in North America, it may be known by the prominent sides of the front and the wider anterior tibie. A. guadelowpensis and A. debilis would, perhaps, be almost equally well-placed in Diedus. In rotten wood (Smith).
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ALEGORIA.
Alegoria, Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Col., ii, p. 221 (1840).
Alegoria dilatata.
Alegoria dilatata, Cast., loc. cit., p. 221; F. Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag., ix., p. 182, nota; Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 149.
Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side; Grenada— Balthazar and Windsor.
Numerous specimens. A widely-distributed species in Tropical America, ranging from Mexico to Peru, but not previously recorded from the Antilles. A. castelnawi, Fleut. and Sallé, from the Island of Guadeloupe, chiefly differs from it in having the punctures of the elytral striae coarse and distant from each other. Found under the sheathing bases of decaying banana leaves, etc. (Smith).
ULoMA.
Uloma, Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Col., ii., p. 220 (1840).
Uloma sulcata,n. sp. (Plate L., fig. 4, ¢.)
Elongate, subparallel, convex, robust, castaneous or rufo-ferru- ginous, shining. Head very short, closely, finely punctate, trans- versely grooved in front; the antenne short. Prothorax much broader than long, transversely convex, a little narrower in front than at the base, the sides rounded anteriorly and slightly converg- ing behind, the angles obtuse ; very finely and rather sparsely punctate, the punctuation a little closer towards the sides and apex, and with a shallow transverse groove (sometimes obsolete) before the base, Elytra two and one-half times the length of the prothorax, narrowing from about the middle ; deeply crenate- striate, the punctures rather coarse, shallow, and somewhat distantly placed ; the interstices strongly convex throughout and sparsely, minutely punctate; the humeri swollen and projecting in front; the epipleure extending to the apex. Fifth ventral segment deeply foveate in the middle before the apex.
dg. Anterior tibiz broadly and abruptly widened on the inner side from about the basal third, concave beneath in their outer
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half, and with a dense fringe of short fulvous hairs extending from a little beyond the middle to the apex ; intermediate tibize elongated, fully twice the length of the tarsi, and bowed inwards from near the base.
Length 74-11, breadth 34-45 mm. (¢ 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Kingstown, Windward side and Leeward side.
Ten specimens, varying greatly in size. In the large well-developed males the thorax is very convex and more rounded at the sides, and the anterior tibiz are strongly dilated. Allied to U. levicollis, Champ., from Central America; but differing from it (and from the European forms also) in the non-excavate disc of the thorax in the males, and also in the form of the tibize in this sex. ‘The fifth ventral segment is foveate in the middle in both sexes. ‘The variation in size and develop- ment of the males is almost as great as in some species of Anisotomidxe. The specimens of this and of the follow- ing species of the genus were found under bark or in rotten wood.
Uloma antillarwm, n. sp.
Elongate, subparallel, convex, rufo-ferruginous, shining. Head short, closely, finely punctate, and with a very deep transverse groove in front; the antennz short. Prothorax nearly one-half broader than long, a little narrower in front than at the base, the sides rounded anteriorly and slightly converging behind, the angles obtuse ; sparsely, very finely, unequally punctate, with a narrow space down the middle impunctate, and with a shallow transverse groove before the base. Elytra narrowing from about the middle, deeply crenate-striate, the punctures rather coarse, shallow, and somewhat distantly placed, the interstices moderately convex, and with a few exceedingly minute scattered punctures, the humeri a little swollen in front. Fifth ventral segment deeply foveate in the middle before the apex.
¢. Anterior tibie# broadly and abruptly widened on the inner side from about the basal third, concave beneath, and with a dense fringe of short fulvous hairs extending from a little beyond the middle to the apex; intermediate tibiae bowed inwards from about the basal third.
Length 73-81, breadth 31-33 mm. (¢ @?.)
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
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One male and two females. Closely allied to U. sulcata ; but less robust, and also differing from it in the more transverse thorax, flatter elytral interstices, and more deeply grooved head. ‘The male characters are similar. The fifth ventral segment is also foveate in both sexes.
Uloma grenadensis, n. sp.
Elongate, parallel, very convex, rufo-ferruginous, shining. Head very short, closely, finely punctate, transversely grooved in front ; the antenne short. Prothorax nearly one-half broader than long, a little narrower in front than at the base, the sides rounded anteriorly and slightly converging behind, the angles obtuse ; sparsely, finely, unequally punctate, with a narrow space down the middle impunctate, and with indications of a shallow trans- verse groove before the base. Elytra narrowing from about the middle, finely crenate-striate, the ptnctures closely placed, the interstices flat on the disc, feebly convex towards the sides, and sparsely, minutely punctate, the humeria little swollen in front. Fifth ventral segment deeply foveate in the middle before the apex.
g@. Anterior tibiae widened on the inner side from about the basal third, concave beneath, and with a dense fringe of short fulvous hairs extending from a little beyond the middle to the apex; intermediate tibise bowed inwards from about the basal third ; hind tibie feebly triangularly dilated on the inner side a little before the middle.
Length 7-83, breadth 3-35 mm. (2.)
Hab. Grenada—Black Forest Estate and Balthazar, en the Windward side.
Two males, one of which is considerably larger and broader than the other. Differs from U. sulcata and U. antillarum in the much more finely crenate-striate elytra, the punctures of the striz closely placed, the interstices flat on the disc; the punctuation of the thorax is dis- tinctly coarser, and the hind tibic in the male are feebly triangularly dilated on the inner side near the middle. The thorax is more transverse than in U. sulcata.
Uloma parvula, n. sp. Moderately elongate, subparallel, convex, shining ; rufous or ferruginous, the scutellum and elytra often fuscous or piceous, the elytra sometimes piceous with the suture and shoulders
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ferruginous. Head finely, rather sparsely punctate, transversely grooved in front; the antenne moderately long. Prothorax about one-half broader than long, much narrower in front than at the base, the sides rounded anteriorly and slightly converging behind, the angles obtuse ; sparsely, finely punctate, with a narrow space down the middle impunctate. Elytra two and one-half times the length of the prothorax, narrowing from the middle; rather coarsely crenate-striate, the strive shallow, the punctures becoming coarser towards the sides and finer at the apex, and not very closely placed ; the interstices feebly convex and sparsely, distinctly pure- tate ; the epipleure extending to theapex. Fifth ventral segment unimpressed, Anterior tibie widening from the base, becoming very broad at the apex, finely denticulate on their outer edge, similar in both sexes.
4. Head swollen on either side between the eyes, concave in the middle ; prothorax with a broad and very deep transversely- cordate excavation on the anterior part of the disc, the excavation limited posteriorly by a transverse fold, which is slightly depressed in the centre.
Length 41-51, breadth 13-2 mm. (6 9.) Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side and Leeward side.
Apparently a common insect in the island of St. Vin- cent. Allied to U. retusa, Fabr., recorded by Fleutiaux and Sallé from Pointe-d-Pitre, Grande-Terre, but scarcely half the size of that insect, the thoracic excavation in the male deeper and differently shaped, the anterior tibia similar in both sexes. The colour of the elytra is as variable as in that species.
ALPHITOBIUS. Alphitobius, Stephens, Il]. Brit., Mand., v., p. 11 (1832). Alphitobius piceus.
Helops piceus, Oliv., Hnt., ii, No. 58, p. 17, t. 2, figg. 13a, b (1795).
Alphitobius piceus, Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 156; Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 427.*
Hab. St. Vincent.
* It is not necessary to give the rest of the synonymy here.
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Two specimens. A cosmopolitan species carried everywhere by commerce. Recorded from the islands of Guadeloupe and Grande-Terre. I have also seen an example of it from Antigua in the collection of the Rev. ‘’. A. Marshall.
DoLieMA.
Doliema, Pascoe, Journ. Ent., i., p. 50 (1860) ; Cham- pion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 157.* Schedarosus, Reitter, Col. Hefte, xv., p. 42.
Doliema plana.
Cucujus planus, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 94.
Doliema plana, Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, pp. 157, 535*; Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 428.+
Sitophagus lecontei, Horn, Rev. Ten. of Am. north of Mex., p. 346, t. 14, fig. 20 (6).
Schedarosus scidarius, Reitt., Col. Hefte, xv., p. 44.
? Adelina depressa, Er., in Wiegm. Archiv, 1847, 1,
pL: Hab. Grenadines—Mustique I.
One female specimen. A widely distributed insect on the mainland of America, ranging from the Southern United States to Guiana. Also recorded from Cuba and Grande-Terre.
ZOPHOBAS.
Zophobas, Blanchard, Hist. des Ins., ii, p. 15 (1848) ; Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 103.
Zophobas morio.
Helops morio, Fabr., Gen. Ins. Mant., p. 241, No. 45 (1777); Spec. Ins., i, p. 325; Mant. Ins., i., p- 214; Ent. Syst., i, p. 120; Syst. Hleuth., i., p- 160.
* For the rest of the synonymy, see Champ., op. cit. t D. (Pytho) pallida, Say, is incorrectly given asa synonym by these authors.
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Zophobas morio, Kraatz, Deutsche ent. Zeit., 1880, p. 128; Champ., Biol.- Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1, pp. 104, 522; Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1839, p. 427.
Ilelops elongatus, Beauy., Ins. Afr. et Amér., p. 164, t. 31, fig. 9; Chevr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1852, p- 638.
Helops nigritus, Oliv., Ent., 111., No. 57, p. 5, t. 2; fice. 26a, b.
Zophobas concolor, Woll., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,
»7Q
1870, v., p. 33; Col. Sanctee Helene, p. 234 Hab. St. Vincent.
Three specimens, all females, with the elytral inter- stices a little more convex than usual. Recorded by Fleutiaux and Sallé, from the islands of Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, and Les Saintes. I have also seen speci- mens of it from Dominica and Trinidad in the collection of the Rev. T. A. Marshall. Introduced into St. Helena. lt seems to be almost cosmopolitan.
Zophobas laticollis.
Zophobas laticollis, Motsch., Bull. Mosce., xlv., 2, pp. 39, 36 (1872); Kraatz, Deutsche ent. Zeit., 1880, p. 131; Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 1; pp. 1057 522,4t. 5, fig 14g)
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
One female example.
ANEDUS.
Anzdus, Blanchard, Hist. des Ins., ii. p. 35 (1845). Anzxdus, Lacordaire, Gen. Col., v., p. 396.
Anzxdus quadrinotatus, n. sp.
Oblong oval, shining, piceous or reddish-brown, with a slight brassy lustre ; the elytra each with a large spot at the shoulder and another at about one-third from the apex, the latter sometimes obsolete, rufous or testaceous ; the antennz pitchy-brown, with the basal two joints, and also the apical one, ferruginous ; the palpi and legs rufo-testaceous, the femora sometimes infuscate ;
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the upper surface clothed with fine, semi-erect hairs. Head with a few scattered coarse, deep punctures, deeply, transversely grooved in front; antenne moderately long, stout, poker ee a little milena joint 2 very short, 3 nearly twice as long as 2, 4 longer and stouter than 3, 4-10 subequal in length, about as Greed as long, 11 much longer and stouter than 10, Prothorax short, trans- versely convex, constricted behind, the sides angularly dilated at the middle and also subangulate near the apex, the anterior angles rounded, the hind angles acutely rectangular ; the surface exceed- ingly coarsely and somewhat closely punctate. LElytra about three times the length of, and much wider than, the prothorax, sub- parallel or slightly widening to the middle and narrowing thence to the apex, a little flattened on the disc, very coarsely and thickly punctured, the punctures subserially arranged towards the suture. Length 23-34, breadth 13-14 mm. (¢ 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side; Grenada—Grand Ktang and Balthazar, on the Windward side, and Mount Gay Kstate, on the Leeward side.
Nine specimens. This small species is allied to A, maculatus, Champ., from Chiriqui. ‘he elytrai spots are not always distinct, the posterior one sometimes obsolete. The genus has apparently not been previously recorded from the Antilles.* ‘The tibiz are unarmed in the male. Under leaves, etc.; also attracted to ‘ light ” (Smith).
PARATENETUS.
Paratenetus, Spinola, Essai Monogr. Clérites, ii., p. 116 (1844); Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Uol., iv., 1, pp. 238, 544.
Storthephora, Maklin, Act. Soc. Fenn., x, pp. 635, 658 (1878).
Paratenetus punctulatus.
Paratenetus punctulatus, Champ., op. cit., p. 545.
Hab. Grenada—Woburn, south end.
One specimen, probably belonging to this species. The genus has not previously been recorded from the Antilles. In dry scrubby growth, on foliage (Smith).
* A. delauneyi, Fleut. & Sallé, from Guadeloupe, the type of which I have examined, is a Cistelid, and belongs to the genus Iystronychus, Latr.
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CyRTOSOMA.
Cyrlosoma, Perty, Del. Anim. artic. Bras., p. 59 (1830).
Curtosoma herminiert.
Cnodalon Vherminierii, Chevr. in Guérin’s Icon. Régne Anim., Ins., p. 123, t. 31, figg. 10, 10a; -b (C. atrum).
Cyrtosoma Vherminieri, Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr: 1889; p. 428.
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side ; Grenada—Balthazar and La Force Estate, on the Windward side.
Several examples from each locality. Original recorded by Chevrolat from Pointe-a-Pitre, Grande-Terre I., and subsequently by Fleutiaux and Sallé from Guadeloupe I. In dry second-growth woods, beaten from vines and bushes, also under bark of a rotten log (Smith).
BLAPIDA. Blapida, Perty, Del. Anim. artic. Bras., p. 58 (1830).
Blapida castaneipennis, n. sp.
Obscure reddish-brown, the head, palpi, antenna, and legs, and the lateral, basal, and apical margins of the prothorax, black ; the head and prothorax dull or feebly shining, the elytra shining ; beneath darker than above, the prosternum black, the ventral surface piceous. Head sparsely, very irregularly, minutely punctate. Prothorax transverse, gradually narrowing from about the basal third to the apex, parallel behind, the anterior angles rounded ; very sparsely, minutely punctate. Elytra elongate, broad, gibbous towards the base, and with the dise flattened and gradually declivous thence to the apex, the apex of each elytron very sharply mucronate ; very deeply striate throughout, the striz finely punctured, the 3rd and 6th near the apex, and the 4th and 5th, and also the 7th and 8th, at some distance before this, coales- cent ; the interstices smooth and convex. Beneath almost smooth. Intermediate tibize widened on the inner side at the apex. Length 22-23, breadth 73-8 mm. ( ¢).
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Two examples. A female of the same species is con- tained in the British Museum; this was found in the
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island of Trinidad by Mr. Broadway. Allied to B. neo- tropicalis, Champ., from Central America, but larger and differently coloured, the thorax more narrowed in front, the elytral strize more finely punctured and the interstices more convex. JB. pertyi, Cast., from Brazil, is also an allied form. On fire-wood, and also attracted to “ light ” (Smith).
ACROPTERON.
Acropteron, Perty, Del. Anim. artic. Bras., p. 64 (1830).
Acropteron quadraticolle, n. sp.
Very elongate, narrow, convex, shining, brownish-bronze. Head thickly, unequally punctate, the epistoma smoother, transversely grooved in front. Prothorax convex, nearly one-half broader than long, completely margined at the base, the sides feebly sinuate— almost straight when viewed from above; the anterior angles very prominent but rather obtuse, the hind angles acute; the surface somewhat thickly, moderately finely punctate, a narrow space down the centre excepted, and feebly transversely grooved in the middle before the base. Elytra about five and one-third times the length of the prothorax, gradually narrowing for about three-fourths of their length, and thence rapidly converging to the apex, the apices sharply mucronate and divaricate; rather coarsely seriate-punctate ; the interstices smooth, almost flat on the disc, convex at the sides and apex. Posterior tibie similar in both sexes. Length 15-163, breadth 23-22 mm. (¢ 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side; Grenada—Grand Etang, alt. 1,900 feet, and Balthazar, both on the Wind- ward side.
Four specimens. Allied to A. puncticolle, Champ., from Chiriqui, but differing from it in the broader and sharply transversely-quadrate thorax, the sides of which are almost straight, and the angles very prominent; the head and thorax are also much more sparsely punctured. From 4A. chabrieri, Fieut. and Sallé, from Guadeloupe I., it may be known by the divaricate and sharply mucronate apices of the elytra, and the prominent anterior angles of the thorax. ‘Ihe posterior tibiz are simple in the male. On foliage (Smith),
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MeENTES.
Mentes, Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., p. 559 (1893).
Mentes xneopiceus, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 8, 3.)
Elongate oval, very narrow, feebly convex, subopaque ; pitchy- black, with a greenish-zneous lustre, the antennze brown, the legs ferruginous, with the apical halves of the femora infuscate. Head very sparsely, finely punctate; the eyes very large, narrowly separated in front ; antennze about half the length of the body, rather slender, joints 1-3 very short, 3 slightly longer than 2, 4-11 moderately elongate, obconic, subequal in length, 4 stouter than, and more than twice as long as, 2. Prothorax strongly transverse, much wider than the head, slightly narrowed in front, rounded at the sides, transversely grooved before the base, the groove ending on either side in a deep fovea, which does not reach the basal margin, the disc also feebly transversely depressed in the middle; the surface sparsely, finely punctate, with a narrow smooth space down the middle. Elytra elongate, depressed, a little wider than the prothorax, narrowing from the middle; finely and rather irre- gularly punctate-striate, the punctures closely packed ; the inter- stices almost flat, each with an irregular row of punctures, which are closely placed and very little finer than those of the striz. Legs elongate, slender ; the hind pair with the tarsi nearly as long as the tibiz, and the basal joint of the tarsi as long as the follow- ing joints united; the anterior tarsi slender and quite simple. Length 54, breadth 1? mm. ( 2.)
Hab. Grenadines—Mustique I.
One male example. Allied to M. fusiformis, Champ., from Guatemala.
TALANUS.
Talanus, Jacquelin Duval, in Sagra’s Hist. Cuba, vii., Ins., p. 66 (1856); Maklin, Ofv. Finsk. Vet. “Soc. Forh., xx., p. 95 (1878); Champion, Biol. Centr.- Am., Col., iv., 1, p. 321.
Dignamptus, Ldeonte; Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., xvii., p. 421 (1877).
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Talanus cribrarius.
Talanus cribrarius, Jacq. Duv., in Sagra’s Hist. Cuba, vii., Ins., p. 66; Makl., Ofv. Finsk. Vet.-Soc. Bork, <Xx.,"ps 0d
Hab. Grenada—Woodford Estate, on the Leeward side.
A single male specimen, agreeing with one from Cuba in Mr. F. Bates’s collection. It has a short sharp tooth on the inner side of each of the tibie a little beyond the middle. Scrubby hill-sides, on herbage (Smith).
Talanus insularis.
Talanus insularis, Makl., Ofv. Finsk. Vet.-Soc. Férh., <x, pve.
Hab. Grenada—Mount Gay Estate, on the Leeward side, and Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Three specimens (2), probably belonging to this species. ‘They are less elongate and much smaller than T’. cribrarius; the legs and antennz are shorter, the latter with joints 9 and 10 strongly transverse (nearly as long as broad in 1’. cribrarius); and the elytra are more distinctly striate, with the punctures coarser. The male-characters are similar. Miaklin’s types were from Puerto Rico. Beaten from vines and bushes (Smith).
Talanus ferrugineus, n. sp.
Elongate oval, convex, ferruginous, shining. Head closely, finely punctate, the epistoma smoother, deeply, transversely grooved in front; antenne short, thickening outwardly, joints 7-10 strongly transverse, 11 oval, stouter than, and more than twice ’ as long as, 10. Prothorax about as long as broad, the sides rounded in front and sinuate behind, sharply margined ; thickly, moderately finely punctate, a space along the middle more sparsely punctured ; transversely grooved before the base. Elytra moderately long, about twice as wide as the prothorax, gradually widening to a little beyond the middle and rapidly narrowing thence to the apex ; deeply striate, the striw with oval, coarse punctures, the sutural stria very deeply impressed ; the interstices smooth and convex.
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¢#. Anterior tibiz armed with a sharp triangular tooth on the inner side a little beyond the middle. Length 6-63, breadth 2}-23 mm. (¢ ¢.)
Hab. St. Vincent; Grenada—Balthazar, and Chantilly Estate, on the Windward side.
Six specimens. Allied to 7. guadeloupensis, Fleut. and Sallé (the types, 2, of which are before me), but entirely ferruginous in colour, the thorax with a rather deep trans- verse groove before the base, the antennz with joints 8-10 more strongly transverse. From 1’. subexaratus, Mikl., from Central and South America, it may be known by its more robust build, more oval elytra, and ferrugi- nous colour, and also in having the tooth on the anterior tibize placed nearer the middle in the males, the tooth on the intermediate pair being obsolete. Beaten from vines and brush ; also attracted to “ light ” (Smith).
Talanus levicollis, n. sp.
Elongate, subparallel, convex, subopaque ; black, piceous, or fuscous, the legs reddish-brown in light-coloured examples, the antenne and palpi ferruginous. Head sparsely, very minutely punctate, deeply transversely grooved in front; antennz short, thickening outwardly, joints 8-10 transverse, wider than 7, 11 oval, stout. Prothorax a little longer than broad, the sides rounded in front and sinuate behind, sharply margined; sparsely, minutely punctate, almost smooth at the sides, and with a short oblique groove on either side of the middle before the base. Elytra moderately elongate, one-half wider than the prothorax, subparallel to about the middle and rapidly narrowing thence to the apex ; sharply punctate-striate, the strize with oval rather coarse punctures which become finer towards the apex, the sutural stria very deeply impressed ; the interstices smooth and feebly convex.
$. The tibiw each armed with a short triangular tooth on the inner side near the apex.
Length 51-73, breadth 13-2} mm. (4 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent; Grenada—Balthazar, and Chantilly Estate on the Windward side, Windsor.
Numerous examples of both sexes. This species differs from all the allied forms in its dull, and sparsely, minutely punctured thorax. Beaten from vines, bushes, and dry banana leaves (Smith).
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CISTELIDA. Losovopa. Lobopoda, Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1835, p. 233.
Lobopoda insularis,n. sp. (Plate I., figg. 10, 3; 10a,
genitalia.)
&. Elongate, rather broad, black, shining, clothed with scattered hairs; the tibie pitchy-brown, the tarsi ferruginous ; the antenne ferruginous, with the five basal joints partly piceous. Head sparsely, finely punctate ; the eyes very large, approximate in front ; antennz about half the length of the body. Prothorax strongly transverse, a little narrowed in front, the sides rounded anteriorly and almost parallel behind ; the surface sparsely, finely punctate, obsoletely canaliculate down the middle, transversely depressed in the centre before the base, and with deep basal fovee. Elytra elongate, a little wider than the prothorax, gradually nar- rowing from about the middle to the apex, the apices rounded ; deeply crenate-striate, the punctures moderately coarse; the interstices feebly convex, very sparsely, finely punctate. Legs elongate; tibiz roughly punctured, the anterior pair gradually widened on the inner side to a little beyond the middle, and then abruptly narrowed and concave to the apex (appearing broadly subangularly dilated), the hind pair slightly curved ; anterior tarsi with joints 1-4, and the intermediate tarsi with joint 4, broadly lobed beneath. Genitalia: the lateral lobes slender and moderately long, curved inwards, slightly tapering at the tip, and fringed with long hairs beneath ; the central sheath very long and stout, abruptly narrowed at some distance before the apex, the apex truncate. Length 93, breadth 34 mm.
Hab. Grenadines—Mustique I.
One specimen. More elongate and more parallel than L. tarsalis, Fleut. and Sallé, from Guadeloupe Island, the thorax more sparsely punctured, more shining, and dis- tinctly narrower than the elytra. The anterior tarsi have the four basal joints lobed beneath. Amongst the Central-American species it perhaps approaches nearest to L. oblonga from Yucatan.
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Lobopoda ebenina, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 11, ¢, genitalia.)
$. Elongate, somewhat fusiform, convex, deep black, very shining, clothed with a few scattered hairs; the palpi and tarsi, the apical joint of the antenne, and the apices of the preceding joints, ferruginous. Head sparsely, finely punctate ; the eyes very large, approximate in front ; antennz about half the length of the body. Prothorax strongly transverse, a little narrowed in front, the sides rounded anteriorly and almost parallel behind ; the sur- face very sparsely and somewhat coarsely punctate, transversely depressed in the middle before the base, and with the basal fovez sharply defined. Elytra not wider than the prothorax, moderately elongate, rapidly narrowing from about the middle, and rounded at the apex; coarsely and deeply crenate-striate, the punctures closely placed ; the interstices convex, sparsely, finely punctate. Legs rather short ; anterior and intermediate tarsi stout, with joints 1-4 broad!y lobed beneath ; anterior tibiz sub-triangularly widened on the inner side before the middle. Genitalia: the lateral lobes moderately long, rather narrow, and abruptly curved inwards at the apex, the apices obtuse; the central sheath gradually narrowing outwards. Length 84, breadth 3 mm.
Hab. Grenada—Soubise, on the Windward side.
One abraded specimen. Amongst the numerous Central-American species of Lobopoda described by myself, L. ebenina is perhaps nearest allied to L. tristis ; but itis much smaller and more shining, with less elongate limbs, the thorax almost parallel behind,
and the genitalia in the male very differently formed. In the shore-woods (Smith).
LYSTRONYCHUS.
Lystronichus, Latreille, Régne Anim., 2nd edit, v., p. 41 (1829). Lystronychus, Lacordaire, Gen. Col., v., p. 514.
Lystronychus tuberculifer, n. sp.
Oval, convex, slightly shining, dark bronze ; the elytra obscure reddish-brown with an sxneous lustre, with a transverse rufous patch on the outer part of the disc—in one specimen reduced to a marginal spot—a little below the base; the antennz cyaneous ; the upper surface with widely scattered, long, erect, bristly, black
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hairs, which are serially arranged on the elytra. Head densely, rugosely punctured ; the eyes coarsely granulated, rather large, separated by a space not equalling the width of one of the eyes as seen from above ; antenne scarcely half the length of the body, the joints from the fourth compressed, becoming much broader outwards, 3 shorter than 4, 7-10 about as broad as long. Prothorax transversely convex, nearly one-half broader than long, bisinuate at the base, rounded at the sides, the latter armed with two blunt teeth before the middle and two acute teeth behind the middle, and strongly constricted behind, the hind angles acute; the surface closely, rather coarsely punctate. Elytra much wider than, and about three and one-half times the length of, the prothorax, rapidly narrowing from a little beyond the middle ; rather finely seriate-punctate, the punctures closely placed ; the interstices flat, the alternate ones each with a row of scattered tubercular eleva- tions, the others also with two or three similar elevations towards the apex, and a few widely scattered serially arranged punctures, the elevations each followed by a setiferous puncture. Length 74-8, breadth 33 mm.
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Two specimens, both attracted to “light.” In the form of the head and thorax this insect approaches L. (Anzxdus) delauneyi, Fleut. and Sallé, from Guadeloupe Island ; but the antennz (instead of being subfiliform) have the joints from the fourth compressed and widened. LL. scapularis, Champ., from Central America, is also an allied species. The form of the antennz resembles that of Xystropus, except that the third joint is shorter (not longer) than the fourth.
Lystronychus rufonotatus, n. sp.
Oblong oval, broad, subopaque, piceous, with a faint seneous lustre, the elytra with an interrupted transverse rufous patch on the outer part of the disc a little below the base, the legs reddish- brown, the antenne with joints 5-11 cyaneous ; the upper surface with widely scattered, long, erect, black, bristly hairs, which are serially arranged on the elytra. Head densely, rugosely punctured ; the eyes coarsely granulated, rather large, separated by a space equalling the width of one of the eyes as seen from above ; antennee scarcely half the length of the body, the joints from the fourth compressed, becoming broader outwards, 3 shorter than 4, 5-10 a little longer than broad. Prothorax transversely convex,
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much broader than long, bisinuate at the base, rounded at the sides, the latter strongly constricted behind, and armed with four short blunt teeth, the hind angles acute; the surface densely, rather coarsely punctate. Elytra one-half wider than, arid nearly four times the length of, the prothorax, subparallel to the middle, and rapidly narrowing thence to the apex ; rather finely seriate- punctate, the punctures closely placed ; the interstices flat, each with a series of slightly finer, more scattered punctures, the alter- nate ones also with a series of widely separated tubercular elevations. Length 9, breadth 34 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent—Chateaubelais.
One specimen. Larger, duller, and more elongate than L. tuberculifer ; the antenne less dilated, and with joints 5-10 longer than broad ; the thorax more densely punc- tured, with the marginal teeth more obtuse ; the elytral interstices each side with a row of punctures extending trom the base to the apex, the tubercular elevations fewer in number and less raised.
LAGRIIDA.
STATIRA.
Statiura, Lepel. de St. Fargeau et Serville, Encycl. Méth., x., p. 479 (1825).
Statira antillarum, n. sp.
Moderately elongate, shining, piceous, the head and prothorax sometimes pitchy-red, the basal half of the femora rufo-testaceous, the tarsi brownish. Head almost smooth ; the eyes large, coarsely granulated, separated by a space nearly equalling the width of one of the eyes as seen from above ; antennx scarcely half the length of the body, the apical joint nearly as long as joints 6-10 united, very little shorter in the female. Prothcrax as long as broad, rounded at the sides, almost smooth. Elytra moderately elongate, a little more than twice the width of the prothorax, gradually widening to the middle and rapidly narrowing thence to the apex, the apices sharp and divaricate ; finely punctate-striate, the punctures closely placed ; the interstices rather convex, the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth each with about ten or twelve deep setiferous punctures, the setze very long and erect. Tibi sulcate on théir outer edge.
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Var. Rufo-ferruginous or rufo-testaceous; the legs brown or obscure testaceous, with the basal half of the femora testaceous. Length 63-73, breadth 21-23 mm. (¢ 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward and Windward sides ; Grenada—Mount Gay and Vendome Estates, on the Leeward side, Balthazar, on the Windward side; Grena- dines—Mustique I.
Numerous specimens of the dark form from Grenada and Mustique; two of the pale variety from St. Vincent. Allied to S. asperata, Champ., from the Isthmus of Panama ; but with a shorter apical joint to the antennx in the male, the femora with their basal half pale, and the elytra more deeply punctate-striate, the setiferous impressions not preceded by a tubercle. The setiferous punctures vary in number and position. SS. fulva, Fleut. and Sallé, from Guadeloupe I., has ungrooved tibia, and also differs in other respects from the present insect. Beaten from vines, herbage, etc.; also attracted to “ light”? (Smith).
Statira vittata, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 9, 6.)
Moderately elongate, faintly shining ; testaceous, the eyes and the elytra black, the latter each with a very broad, slightly oblique, flavo-testaceous stripe on the disc— extending from the base to near the apex, and nearly or quite reaching the suture behind. Head almost smooth; the eyes large, coarsely granulated, separated by a space nearly equalling the width of one of the eyes as seen from above ; antennze moderately long in the male, a little shorter in the female, the apical joint in both sexes slightly longer than 9 and 10 united. Prothorax a little wider than the head, as broad as long, rounded at the sides, sharply margined at the base, and with acute hind angles ; the surface with a few scattered very minute punctures. Elytra moderately elongate, rapidly narrowing from a little beyond the middle ; finely punctate-striate, the punctures closely placed ; the interstices rather convex, the third with about eight, the fifth with three or four, the seventh with one (at the shoulder), and the ninth with three or four (towards the apex), setiferous punctures. Length 63-81, breadth 2-2 mm. (¢ @.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side; Grenadines— Mustique I. ia
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Numerous examples. Allied to S. conspicillata and S. pulchella, Mikl., from Central America, but very differently coloured. ‘The thorax is without marginal carina, and the tibiz are ungrooved on their outer edge. There is very little difference in the form of the antennz in the sexes, those of the female being merely a little shorter.
PYTHIDA.
SosTHENES.
Sosthenes, Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv, 2, p. 106 (1889).
Sosthenes parvulus, n. sp.
Moderately elongate, rather depressed, very shining, glabrous ; greenish-zeneous, the humeri indeterminately brownish, the labrum, oral organs, legs, and antenne testaceous, the latter with the apical three joints piceous. Head very broad and short, sparsely, finely punctate ; the eyes prominent, coarsely granulated ; antenne short, scarcely reaching the base of the prothorax, slender, the apical three joints widened and forming a loose club, 9 and 10 transverse. Prothorax as wide as the head including the eyes, transversely cordate, much narrower at the base than at the apex ; somewhat coarsely and moderately closely punctate, the punctures becoming coarser and more crowded at the sides. Elytra a little more than twice the length of the prothorax, and slightly wider than it, truncate in front, subparallel to the middle and arcuately narrowing thence to the apex, deeply transversely depressed below the base, the basal portion, except along the suture, appearing transversely swollen ; finely punctate to a little beyond the middle, the punctuation close and confusedly arranged near the suture, becoming denser at the base, scattered and subseriately arranged towards the sides, and completely obsolete on the declivous apical portion. Beneath with scattered punctures on the abdomen and metasternum, those on the latter coarse, the prosternum and pro- pleur very coarsely punctured. Length 13} mm.
Hab. Grenada—Grand Etang, on the Windward side, 1,900 feet.
A single specimen. In its structural characters this minute species agrees with the type of the genus, S. dychirioides, Champ., from Guatemala, from which it
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differs in its depressed form, more prominent eyes, more slender antenne, etc. ‘J‘he elytra have a deep transverse depression below the base, as in various species of Salpingus, Anthicus, ete. An allied undescribed form from Guadeloupe is contained in the collection of M. Fleutiaux of Paris. Beaten from bushes in the forest (Smith).
Gi DEMERI DAK.
OXACIS.
Oxacis, Leconte, New Sp. Col., p. 165 (April, 1866). Hypasclera, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr., xxx., p. 210 (July, 1866).
Owacis simplex. Copidita simplex, C. O. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 308. Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side; Grenadines— Mustique I.
Six examples. The punctuation of the upper surface is exceedingly fine and close, and the pubescence is fine and silky. The claws are angularly dilated within. The Jeft mandible is pointed at the tip, and the right mandible is toothed on the upper side before the apex. ‘The antenne vary in colour from testaceous to piceous, the two basal joints being always pale. Specimens of this species have also been collected in the island of Antigua, by the Rev. ‘T. A. Marshall. The type was from St. Bartholomew.
Oxacis antillarum, n. sp.
Moderately elongate, rather broad, shining ; testaceous, the head with a broad stripe down the middle, the prothorax with a median line, not reaching the base or apex, and the tips of the mandibles, piceous, the eyes black; the antennez fusco-testaceous, the two basal joints flavous ; the elytra fusco-piceous with a bluish lustre, with a broad sutural stripe, abruptly narrowed at the base, and the lateral margin very narrowly, flavous ; the abdomen in great part piceous, testaceous at the base ; above and beneath rather sparsely clothed with fine yellowish-cinereous pubescence. Head thickly
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punctured, the eyes very large; (antennz with joints 6-11 broken off). Prothorax wider than the head, subcordate, closely and rather coarsely punctate, with a longitudinal median carina towards the apex, this being replaced behind by a smooth narrow space, the disc depressed on either side before the middle. Elytra moderately long, one-half wider than the prothorax, closely and finely punctate, and with two faint coste on the disc. Legs stout ; claws angularly dilated within. Length 9}, breadth 2} mm, (9.-)
Hab. St. Vincent—Chateaubelais.
'This insect resembles O. simplex in colour, except that the head is infuscate along the middle, and the thorax has a dark median line; itis, however, more shining and much more distinctly punctured, the punctures on the thorax being rather coarse, and the pubescence is coarser. The mandibles are long, slender, and simple, pointed at the tip.
CopipIira.
Copidita, Leconte, New Sp. Col., p. 164 (1866) ; Leconte & Horn, Class. Col. N. Am., p. 405.
Copidita costata, n. sp.
Elongate, rather broad, subopaque ; testaceous, the eyes and the tips of the mandibles black, the elytra with a broad submarginal pale brownish stripe extending from the base to the apex ; above and beneath finely pubescent. Head thickly, finely punctate ; (antenne broken off). Prothorax slightly wider than the head, subcordate, about as broad as long, closely, finely, very distinctly punctate, the disc flattened in the centre before the base, and also depressed on either side before the middle. Elytra moderately elongate, nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, closely, shallowly, very finely punctate, and with four well-defined coste—the third abbreviated in front and behind, and the second and fourth almost confluent behind—the suture also raised and costiform. Legs stout. Length 103, breadth 2} mm. (@.)
Hab. ? St. Vincent.
A single mutilated example of this species is contained in Mr. Smith’s Antillean collections. It is, unfortunately, not labelled with the exact locality, but is probably from his first collection made at St. Vincent. ‘The elytral coste are unusually well-defined. The left mandible is truncate and scarcely emarginate ; the right mandible is bifid at the tip.
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Copidita lateralis.
Copidita lateralis, C. O. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 307.
Hab. Grenada—Mount Gay Estate, on the Leeward side; Grenadines—Mustique I.
One specimen from each locality. ‘The insect was described originally from San Domingo and Jamaica. Attracted to “light” (Smith).
Copidita tenella.
Copidita tenella, C. O. Waterh., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 307.
Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side.
One specimen. Described from the island of St. Thomas. ‘lhe mandibles are feebly bifid at the tip.
Copidita quadrilineata, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 12.)
Moderately elongate, rather narrow, subopaque; pale flavous, the eyes black ; the elytra slate-coloured, with the sutural and lateral margins, the first costa from a little below the base to near the middle, and the second costa from the base to near the apex, flavous ; the antennez black, with the basal joint obscure testaceous, the palpi and the tips of the mandibles fuscous, the legs pale flavous, with the tarsi and the apices of the tibiz infuscate; above and beneath rather sparsely clothed with fine yellowish-cinereous pubescence. Head thickly punctured ; antennz more than half the length of the body. Prothorax longer than broad, subcordate, parallel behind, the anterior part as wide as the head, closely, very finely punctate, the disc depressed in the middle at the base and also on either side anteriorly. Elytra moderately elongate, more than one-half wider than the prothorax, densely, subrugosely punctured, and with three distinct costee—two on the disc and one close to the lateral margin, the latter rather prominent. Legs rather stout. Length 7, breadth 12 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent.
One specimen only, probably a male, of this well- marked species has been received. ‘The two outer cost of the elytra are more distinct than in the allied forms, C. frontalis, etc. The thorax is somewhat abruptly narrowed about the middle and parallel thence to the base, the anterior half being rounded at the sides.
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Copidita frontalis,n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 13.)
Moderately elongate, narrow, the head and prothorax shining, the elytra opaque ; brownish-black, the anterior half of the head, the prothorax, and the sutural and lateral margins of the elytra to near the apex, the former rather broadly, flavous or flavo-testaceous ; the legs flavo-testaceous, the tarsi, the base of the first joint excepted, and the apices of the tibia, infuscate ; the antenne black, with the base of the first joint testaceous ; finely pubescent, the pubescence partaking of the ground colour. Head closely, very finely punctate ; antennz more than half the length of the body. Prothorax sub- cordate, longer than broad, a little narrower than the head, closely, very finely punctate ; the disc depressed on either side before the middle, and flattened in the centre before the base. Elytra moderately elongate, nearly twice the width of the prothorax, densely, subrugosely punctured, and with indications of three faint coste on the disc. Legs moderately slender. Length 6, breadth 1} mm.
Hab. St. Vincenu—Leeward and Windward sides.
‘wo examples, probably males. ‘The sutural and lateral margins of the elytra are of a paler yellow thar the prothorax.
Copidita grenadensis, n. sp.
Moderately clongate, narrow, the head and prothorax shining, the elytra opaque ; black, the anterior half of the head, the front coxe, the prothorax, and the sutural and lateral margins of the elytra to near the apex, very narrowly, flavous ; finely pubescent, the pubescence partaking of the ground colour. Head com- paratively short, closely, finely punctate ; antenne rather slender, a little more than half the length of the body. Prothorax scarcely narrower than the head, about as long as broad, sub- cordate, slightly depressed on either side of the disc before the middle, closely, finely punctate, smoother in the centre. Elytra moderately elongate, one-half wider than the prothorax, densely, subrugosely punctured, with indications of three faint coste on the dise, the inner one short. Legs slender. Length 53, breadth 14mm.
Hab. Grenada—Mount Gay Kstate, on the Leeward side. ise
_ One specimen, probably a male. This small species is allied to C. frontalis, but. differs from it in having the
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legs black and more slender, the thorax shorter, wider, and less densely punctured. Found on the wing at sun- set (Smith).
XY LOPHILIDA,
XYLOPHILUS.
Xylophilus, Latreille, Fam. Nat. du Regne Anim., p- 383 (1825). This genus has not hitherto been recorded from the Antilles or South America.
Xylophilus trifasciatus.
Xylophilus trifasciatus, Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col.,:1¥.,°2;-p. Lvl tS, tig: 4:
Hab. Grenada—St. George’s, on the Leeward side.
One female specimen, differing from those from Central America in having the two basal joints only of the antenne infuscate.
Xylophilus exquinoctialis. Xylophilus xquinoctialis, Champ., loc. cit., p. 180, t. 8, fio. 15. _ Hab. St. Vineent—Balthazar, on the Windward side, St. John’s River, on the Leeward side.
Numerous examples. Apparently a widely distributed Tropical-American insect, ranging from the Mexican State of Vera Cruz to Panama, and probably further south. Beaten from bushes, also flying (Smith).
Xylophilus nigricollis, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 14, ¢.*)
g. Oval, rather narrow, moderately convex, shining ; the head and prothorax black; the elytra testaceous, with a rather broad black median fascia, which is widened outwards and extends for- wards along the lateral margin, the fascia in one specimen inter- rupted at the suture, the suture itself narrowly infuscate; the antenne testaceous, with the basal joint piceous ; the legs testaceous,
* The minute penultimate tarsal joint cannot be shown in the figures of this and the following species.
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the hind femora in great part piceous ; the upper surface sparsely clothed with rather long, decumbent, yellowish-cinereous hairs. Head broad, sparsely, finely punctate, very narrowly extended on either side behind the eyes; the latter large, coarsely granulated, and very narrowly separated in front; the antenne moderately long, rather stout, joint 1 elongate, 2 short, transverse, 3-10 gradu- ally decreasing in length and increasing in width, 3 twice as long as 2, 9and 10 about as broad as long, 11 long and stout, obliquely truncate and acuminate at the apex. Prothorax subquadrate, a little narrowed in front, slightly broader than long, narrower than the head, thickly, moderately finely punctate. Elytra short, oval, nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, thickly, somewhat coarsely punctate. Legs rather stout, the hind femora strongly clavate, the anterior tibiae bowed inwards towards the apex. Length 2-23, breadth 3? mm.
Hab. Grenada—Mount Gay Hstate, on the Windward side.
Two males. Allied to the Central-American X. cineti- pennisand X. chiriquensis, Champ., but with shorter and less parallel elytra, differently formed antenns, etc. On bushes, also flying (Smith).
Xylophilus guttatus, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 15.)
Short and broad, convex, dull ; the head piceous or black ; the prothorax ferruginous, with a transverse dark brown fascia across the middle, sometimes divided into three spots; the elytra testa- ceous or ferrugineo-testaceous, with a common transverse patch at the base, sometimes divided at the suture, a spot on the outer part of the disc a little lower down, the sides in front, an angulated fascia about the middle, and a transverse mark on the outer part of the disc near the apex, dark brown; the antennz and legs flavo- testaceous, the hind femora infuscate ; the under surface fusco- ferruginous ; the upper surface closely, finely punctate, and thickly clothed with a fine, sericeous pubescence, which is whitish on the head and scutellum, and on the light-coloured portions of the pro- thorax and elytra, and brown onthe other parts ; the under surface also closely punctured and clothed with whitish pubescence. Head short and broad ; the eyes large, occupying the whole of the side of the head, rather coarsely granulated, narrowly separated in front in the..male, a little more distant in the female ; antenne—( 2.) moderately long, slender, filiform, joints 1 and 2 stout, subequal, 3-10 about equal in length, 3 slightly longer than 2, 11 stout, much
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longer than 10, obliquely truncate at the apex—( @) shorter and with joints 6-10 gradually increasing in width, ) and 10 about as broad as long. Prothorax transverse, nearly as wide as the head, with a shallow transverse groove on either side of the disc about the middle. Elytra nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, and about twice as long as broad, narrowing from the middle, and very obtuse behind, without distinct depressions. Legs rather short, the hind femora stout; similar in both sexes. Length 14-13, breadth 4-7 mm. (4 @.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward and Windward sides; Grenada—Chantilly Estate.
Twelve specimens, most of which are in a bad state of preservation. ‘The description is taken from the St. Vincent examples. The two from Grenada are in a mutilated condition, and one of them has the dark mark- ings much more extended and confluent, so as to leave some smal] whitish-pubescent spots only on the elytra. This peculiar little species is allied to X. laticollis, Champ., and other Mexican forms. Beaten from herbage in scrubby forest (Smith).
ANTHICIDAS.
Macratria. Macratria, Newman, Ent. Mag., v., p. 377 (1838).
Macratria femoralis, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 16, ¢.)
Elongate, subparallel, shining, brown or reddish-brown, the prothorax piceous in one exampie; the head ferruginous, testa- ceous in front, the eyes black, the antennz and legs testaceous, the posterior femora with a large black spot on the inner face near the apex ; beneath piceous or brown, the last two ventral segments ferruginous; the upper surface thickly clothed with rather long fine decumbent yellowish-cinereous hairs, with scattered inter- mixed long erect hairs, the under surface also thickly pubescent. Head thickly, very minutely punctate; the eyes large, converging in front; antennz slender, moderately long, joints 3-8 equal in length, 9-11 much longer and stouter. Prothorax longer than broad, narrowing behind and dilated at the base, densely, finely punctate. Elytra about two and one-half times the length of, and
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a little wider than, the prothorax, broader in the female, parallel to beyond the middle, and conjointly rounded at the apex ; closely, finely, confusedly punctate, and with a fine sutural stria. Beneath densely, very finely punctate. $. Fifth ventral segment broadly and deeply excavate in the middle, the excavation extending from the base to the apex. Length 33-44, breadth 1-1; mm. (4 9.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Windward side, alt. 1,000 feet.
One pair. This species is more parallel and has a relatively wider thorax than most of the American forms known to me; there is no trace of a linear arrangement of the punctures on the elytra; the hind femora have a conspicuous black spot near the apex. The genitalia of the male are exposed ; and from the apex of the abdomen there projects a very large, broad, spoon-shaped, mem- branous piece—apparently a modified terminal dorsal segment, wider than the apex of the abdomen—which is furnished with two long setz at the apex. Under rubbish on the banks of a stream in the forest (Smith).
ANTHICUS.
Anthicus, Paykull, Fauna Suecica, 1., p. 255 (1798).
Anthicus sulcipennis, n. sp.
Moderately elongate, convex, black or pitchy-black ; the antennz testaceous, with the apical four joints, and sometimes the base of the first also, black ; the elytra with two oblique testaceous fascize —one before, the other beyond the middle, the anterior one widening outwards, neither reaching the suture ; the legs pitchy- black, the tarsi and the base of the femora testaceous ; the head and prothorax dull, the elytra shining, the upper surface clothed with a few short fine scattered hairs. Head rather large, convex, suborbicular, finely scabrous; the eyes large and prominent antenne moderately long, thickening outwardly, the penultimate joint transverse. Prothorax longer than broad, much narrower than the head, strongly constricted and compressed behind the middle, parallel towards the base, the anterior portion globose ; the surface scabrous and very finely punctured, Elytra rather short, twice as wide as the prothorax, gradually widening to the middle, very deeply transversely grooved below the base, the space in front of this transversely swollen, except at the suture; the
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surface very finely, rather sparsely punctate. Legs slender, the femora moderately thickened. Length 24-24, breadth } mm.
Hab. Grenada—Mount Gay Hstate, on the Leeward side.
Four specimens. Allied to A. gibbicollis and A. albi- cinctus, La Ferté, and A. clavicornis, Champ., but differing from all these in its finely scabrous head and thorax, and in having an additional fascia on the elytra. The pubescence is sparse and easily abraded. ‘Tbe post- median fascia extends obliquely upwards and the ante- median one slightly downwards, but they do not nearly reach the suture. On bushes in open places (Smith).
Anthicus trifasciatus.
Anthicus trifasciatus, Fabr., Syst. Hleuth., i., p. 291; La Ferté, Monogr. Anrthic., p. 189; Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 432.
Hab. St. Vincent ; Grenada ; Grenadines—Mustique I.
Found in abundance by Mr. Smith in various parts of St. Vincent and Grenada, and also sparingly at Mustique Island. Recorded by La Ferté from St. Thomas, and by Vleutiaux and Sallé from Guadeloupe. I have also seen it from Trinidad. The markings are frequently indis- tinct or partly obliterated. In fresh examples the elytra are clothed with scattered, long, erect hairs, Shaken from heaps of decaying weeds in cacao-orchards, etc.
(Smith). Anthicus floralis. pale ahd (Payk.), La Ferté, Monogr. Anthic.,
ae een is, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. ue a: 279 ; Quedenf., Berl. ent. Zeitschr., 1886, p. 1
Hemantus floralis, Casey, Ann. N. York Nend: Viil., p- 683 (1895).
Hab. Grenada—Mount Gay Estate, on the Leeward side, Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Numerous examples of this cosmopolitan insect were
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La Ferté, and from Puerto Rico by Quedenfeldt. It is omitted from MM. Fleutiaux and Sallé’s list of the Coleo- ptera of Guadeloupe. This insect has recently been taken by Capt. Casey ‘(loc. cit.) as the type of a new genus, Hemantus. One of the characters given for it in his Table of genera (loc. cit., p. 641) is taken from the form of the mesosternum, which he describes as “ variable in extent, becoming subgeneric in weight”: I con- fess I am quite unable to grasp the meaning of such a definition.
Anthicus grenadensis, n. sp.
Elongate, depressed, shining, sparsely pubescent ; testaceous, the elytra piceous or pitchy-black, each with a broad transverse fascia a little below the base and a large ante-apical spot, neither reaching the suture, testaceous ; the antenne sometimes with the outer joints slightly infuscate, the eleventh pale. Head large, subtriangular, with a few scattered punctures at the sides, the occiput grooved in the middle; the eyes moderately large and coarsely granulated ; antenne moderately elongate, rather slender. Prothorax as long as broad, a little narrower than the head, the sides obliquely converging from about one-third from the apex, rounded in front, and slightly dilated at the base; the surface sparsely punctured, canaliculate down the middle, the channel: deeply excavate towards the base, the base grooved on either side. Elytra moderately elongate, about twice as wide as the prothorax, feebly rounded at the sides, depressed, finely and somewhat thickly punctate. Length 23-3, breadth 7-1 mm.
Hab. Grenada—Granville, Windward side.
Four specimens. Allied to A. curraz, Champ., from Eastern Mexico; but much more shining, the thorax deeply grooved down the middie behind and sparsely punctured, the eyes smaller, etc. Under rubbish on the sandy sea-shore (Smith).
MORDELLID. _Morve.ra. Mordella, Linneeus, Syst. Nat., 10th edit., 1., p. 420 (1758). Mordella sexguttata, n. sp.
Comparatively short ; testaceous, the eyes black, the prothorax with an oval piceous mark on the middle of the dise extending to
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near the base, the elytra brownish or piceous, becoming indetermin- ately paler on the disc towards the base ; the under surface with the sides of the metasternum and of the hind cox broadly, and the first four ventral segments in great part, piceous, or rufo-testa- ceous, with the second and third ventral segments only in part piceous; the pygidium in the middle, and the extreme apex of the hind tibiz and also that of the first three hind tarsal joints, infus- cate or black ; the elytra each with a small rounded spot near the suture a little below the base, a smaller one lower down at the side, a broad transverse sublunate mark at one-third from the apex, and an indistinct apical patch (visible only in certain lights), cinereo-pubescent, the rest of the pubescence of the upper surface fulvous, that of the under surface fulvous or yellowish-cinereous. Antenne slender, rather short, joint 3 very small, much shorter than 2 or 4. Elytra rather short, gradually narrowing from the base. Pygidium very elongate, slender. Length to end of the elytra, 24 mm. ( ¢.)
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side; Grenada—Bal- thazar, on the Windward side.
Two specimens, one of which is without head and thorax. This pretty little species is allied to the Central- American M. flavonotata, M. nigromaculata, Champ., ete. The spots are entirely due to the colour of the pubescence. The hind tibizs have a single short subapical ridge, as usual in Mordella.
CONALIA.
Conalia, Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Nat. Lyon, 1858, p. 313; Opusc. Ent., ix., p. 55; Emery, Essai Mon. Mord., p. 73; Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 2, p- 306.
Conalia ebenina. ‘Conalia ebenina, Champ., loc. cit., p. 306, t. 13, figg. 20, 20a-—c.
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Found in plenty in St. Vincent. The insect is widely distributed in Central America. It is easily distinguish- able by the peculiar sculpture of the hind tibize and tarsi (loc. cit., fig. 20c) and the extremely short pygidium.
Conalia fulvoplagiata, n. sp.
Short; black, the elytra with an oblique fulvous humeral patch, the basal joints of the antenne fusco-testaceous, the hind tibial spurs flavous; the pubescence brownish. Antenne short, joints 3 and 4 slender, short, equal, 5-11 considerably widened, 7-10 transverse. Elytra gradually narrowing from a little below the base. Pygidium very short, not much longer than the hypo- pygium, and not extending beyond the apex of the elytra. Length, 14-23 mm.
Hab. Grenada—Lake Antoine and Mount Gay Estates, and St. George’s, all on the Leeward side, and Grand Ance, at the south end.
Hight specimens. The insect is perhaps nothing more than a colour-variety of C. ebenina, but as it seems to be confined to the island of Grenada, it is advisable to name it.
MorbDELLISTENA.
Mordellistena, Costa, Faun. Reg. Napol., Mordellid., pp: 16, 31 (1854).
Mordellistena pallida, n. sp.
Moderately elongate, narrow, rather dull ; testaceous, the eyes black, the elytra usually indeterminately brownish at the sides below the base, this colour sometimes extending inwards ; the extreme apex of the hind tibiz, and also that of the first three hind tarsal joints, and the oblique ridges, black ; the pubescence fulvous. Antenne slender, moderately long, joints 3 and 4 short, equal. Elytra moderately elongate. Pygidium very elongate, slender. Hind tibia with three oblique ridges—two very short, near the apex, the other extending obliquely across their outer face from the middle to near the base ; first joint of the hind tarsi with three, the second joint with two, short oblique ridges. Length to end of the elytra, 2-23 mm. (¢ ¢).
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side, and Kingstown.
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Hight specimens. I have also seen it from Guadeloupe, in the collection of M. Fleutiaux of Paris, and from Antigua, in the collection of the Rev. T. A. Marshall. The anterior tibize are very slender in the males. The peculiar sculpture of the hind tibiz is common to several of the Central-American species of the genus. The insect is nearest allied to M. luteola and M. isabellina, Champ., from both of which it differs in its much smaller size, shorter antenne, and shorter apical ridges of the hind tibiee.
RHIPIDOPHORIDA.
MaAcrosIAGon.
Macrosiagon, Hentz, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., iii., p. 462, t. 15, fige. 3da—d (1830).
Emenadia, Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Col., ii., p. 261 (1840).
Macrosiagon octomaculatus.
Rhipiphorus octomaculatus, Gerst., Rhipiph. Col. Fam.
Disp. Syst., p. 22; Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc, Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 432.*
Hab. St. Vincent—Leeward side, and Windward side.
Five specimens. Recorded by MM. Fleutiaux and Sallé from Guadeloupe,
RHIPIDOPHORUS. Rhipiphorus, Bose d’Antic, Journ. d’Hist. Nat., ii., p. 298 (1792). Myodes, Latreille, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxii, p. 130 (1818).
Rhiptdophorus (Myodes) sancti-vicentis, n. sp. 9. Black, finely pubescent; the legs piceous, with the first joint of the tarsi testaceous at the base. Head densely, finely punctate, broadly concave and smoother in front, obliquely nar-
* The synonymy is given by me elsewhere, ef. Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv,, 2, p. 356.
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rowed behind the eyes; the vertex feebly longitudinally carinate in the middle ; antennz rather elongate, with seven long rami on the inner side, the rami decreasing in length outwards. Prothorax densely, finely punctate ; the posterior half of the disc transversely depressed, the depression limited on either side anteriorly by a smooth oblique ridge, in front of which is a smooth space. Elytra coriaceous, finely, shallowly punctate, the humeri smooth and shining. Abdomen, above and beneath, the first dorsal segment excepted, sparsely punctured. Metasternum densely punctured. Intermediate and hind tibiz bowed inwards ; the hind pair broadly compressed and roughly punctured, rounded externally. Hind tarsi with the basal joint slender and slightly curved, as long as the following joints united. Wings hyaline, smoky towards the apex, the costa piceous. Length 4 mm.
Hab. St. Vincent.
One specimen. This small species is allied to R. (Myodes) niger, C. O. Waterh., from Central America ; but differs from it in the flat, feebly carinate, vertex, the slender basal joint of the hind tarsi, and the finely and shallowly punctured elytra. ‘The antennz are furnished with rami on the inner side only, and the specimen is no doubt a female.
CANTHARIDA.
Horta. Horia, Fabricius, Mant. Ins., i., p. 164 (1787).
Horia maculata.
Cucujus maculatus, Swed. Vetensk. Ac. nya Handl., L787, p- 1095s. 8, fig. 3.
Horia maculata, Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 483; Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col., iv., 2; p. Vl
Hab. St. Vincent—southern end.
One mutilated female specimen, found under a rotten log. A widely distributed Tropical-American insect, and stated to be parasitic on a species of the Hymenopterous
* The full synonymy is given by me, loc. cit.
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genus Xylocopa. Recorded from the islands of San Domingo, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, and Barbados; the Barbados insect, however, is probably referable to H. auriculata, Champ.
TETRAONYX.
Tetraonyx, Latreille, in Humb. et Bonpl., Obs. Zool., 1., p. 160 (1811).
Tetraonyx quadrimaculatus.
Apalus quadrimaculatus, Fabr., Ent. Syst., 1., 2, p. 50.
Tetraonyx quadrimaculatus, Lec., Proc. Acad. Phil., vi., p. 344; Haag, Stett. ent. Zeit., 1879, p. 308; Fleut. et Sallé, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1889, p. 433.
Hab. St. Vincent—South end and Windward side ; Grenada—Mount Gay Estate, on the Leeward side.
Three specimens. Also inhabits the Southern United States, and the islands of St. Thomas and Guadeloupe, but not yet recorded from Central America.
ZONITIS. Zonitis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., p. 126 (1775).
Zonitis lineata, nu. sp.
Elongate, broad, parallel, dull, finely pubescent ; luteous or flavo-luteous ; the eyes, the tips of the mandibles, the palpi, and antenne black, the latter with the extreme base of each joint testaceous ; the elytra variable in colour—fuscous or fusco-testa- ceous, with the sutural and lateral margins, the apex, and a line or stripe down the middle of the disc flavo-luteous—fusco-testaceous, witha darker patch at the base—flavo-luteous, with two spots at the base and a streak on the dise towards the apex fuscous—or entirely flavo-luteous ; the tips of the femora, and the tibiw and tarsi, black or piceous. Head densely punctured, the punctures very ‘fine on the vertex, the interocular space with a few coarse scattered punctures only, a narrow space down the middle impunctate ; the eyes large, transverse, coarsely granulated, separated by a space about half the width of the eye as seen from above ; antennz very elongate, slender, filiform, joints 2 and 3 subequal in length. Prothorax a little broader than long, as wide as the head, rapidly
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and obliquely narrowing from the middle forwards ; densely, finely punctate, a space along the middle more sparsely and more coarsely punctured. Elytra elongate, parallel, nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, obtuse at the apex; densely, very finely punctate, sometimes with indications of one or two faintly raised lines on the disc. Beneath densely, very finely punctate.
4. Fifth ventral segment broadly and deeply emarginate at the apex, with a large and very deep triangular depression in the middle, the bottom of the depression smooth and shining.
Length 14-16, breadth 4-5 mm. ( ¢ ?.)
Hab. Grenada—Balthazar, on the Windward side.
Six specimens, all attracted to “light.” Alhed to Z. megalops, Champ., from Guatemala.
EXpLANATION oF Piate I.
Fic. 1 zolais tuberculifera, ¢.
2. Ctesicles insularis, g.
3. Crypticus undatus.
4. Uloma sulcata, ¢.
5. Platydema apicenotatum.
6. Lorelus brevicornis.
7. Lorelopsis pilosus.
8. Mentes eneopiceus, ¢.
9. Statira vittata, ¢.
10. Lobopoda insularis, g. 10a. 55 - genitalia. % ebenina, g, genitalia. 12. Copidita quadrilineata.
13. » frontalis, 14. Xylophilus nigricollis, g. 15s a) guttatus.
16. Macratria femoralis, ¢. 17. Menimopsis excecus, 2.
” 5) antenna.
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Il. New and little-known Palearctic Perlide. By Kennetu JouNn Morton, F.E.S.
[Read Dec. 4th, 1895.]
Prate II.
Azovurt a year ago I attempted a preliminary revision of the palearctic species of the genus Nemoura, as a beginning in the direction of increasing our knowledge of the Perlide. It was then my intention to take up the genus Leuctra next, but the difficulty of getting materials in that genus has led me to postpone treatment of it. Additional material has, however, come to hand in other genera, and I now submit descriptions of several new species belonging to Nemoura, Texniopteryx, and Capnia.
With regard to Txniopteryz, as the description of the new species will include comparative references to T. tri- fasciata, it will, with the addition of appropriate figures, serve to make the latter species better known, especially as regards the ¢ structure. Albarda’s paper (Annales de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique, tom. xxxii.), dealing at length with the nebulosa group, taken in conjunction with the following notes and figures relating to 7’. Rist and 7. trifasciata, will practically constitute a revision of the European species of the genus, the only species excepted being monilicornis, which I have not yet seen.
The addition of another species of Capnia to the British list, or rather its separation from the acknow- ledged C. nigra, is interesting, and a Capnia from Amurland is also described.
This opportunity is also taken to give a description and figures of a curious little form which may yet be found in this country. It was described by Rostock, in 1892, as Capnodes Schiller ; but as the generic name had already been used by Guenée in Lepidoptera in 1852, the new term Capnopsis is proposed.
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All those entomologists who assisted me with the Nemoure have contributed help with the present paper. Special thanks are due to Mr. McLachlan, not only for allowing me to examine material which may be called classical, but also for many valuable hints relating to bibliography.
Nemoura Sahlbergi, n. sp.
In the dry insect, head and pronotum are shining blackish ; antennz nearly black ; pronotal plate faintly brown on anterior margin, indistinctly rugose on middle of disc, about same breadth as the head without the eyes, borders ill defined, lateral margins receding slightly posteriorly. Meso- and meta-nota also shining blackish, abdomen dull black. Legs dingy testaceous, femora, and apices of tibize and tarsi fuscous. Wings greyish, sub-hyaline, iridescent, neuration pale fuscous, and faintly clouded with fuscous about pterostigma and x nervures ; in the hindwings the superior cubitus seems to leave the radius at a considerable distance from the basal cell.
A species of the avicularis group, not presenting strong cha- racters, excepting in the appendages of the ¢, which are very distinct. Broad at the base, these appendages become more slender in the shaft, and at the apex there is a broad membranous expausion internally, the chitinized portion forming an out-turned short hook obscurely two-pointed and inwards being produced into two long acute spears. Exp. of forewings, 14 to 17 mm.
I have seen a number of examples from Utsjoki, in the region of Lake Hnara, Finnish Lapland, taken by Dr. John Sahlberg, to whom I have pleasure in dedicating the species.
Temopteryx Risi, n. sp. T’. trifasciata, pars. auct.
Head dark reddish-brown or blackish, antennz blackish, long, slender, composed of elongate joints, pronotum blackish, the fore and hind margins sometimes reddish-brown, elongate, narrower in front than behind ; meso- and meta-nota shining blackish, abdom en
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dark reddish-brown ; legs reddish-brown, femora and tibiz tips and the tarsi marked with fuscous. Forewings pale grey, sub-hyaline with darker clouds, neuration fuscous ; hindwings clearer, slightly dark at the tips. In the forewings the number of free nervures running from the upper cubitus to the apical margin is usually two. The darker cloudings are these: a vague blotch nearer the base, fol- lowed by a broad median crescent and a narrow crescent, rarely any evidence of an apical blotch.
In the ¢ the ventral plate is large, elongate, lateral margins slightly inturned ; apex strongly recurved, its outline rounded and entire. The genitalia are complicated and the nature of the various parts uncertain ; two spiniform appendages are sometimes visible in addition to those shown in fig. 1. Expanse of forewings : 6, 18-22 mm.; ¢, 21-28 mm.
This insect has long been known to Dr. Ris from Switzerland, and held by him to be a good species, con- trary to the views of Albarda (expressed in 1889), who considered it to be a form of T’. trifasciata. It is, how- ever, abundantly distinct from trifasciata in which the ventral plate of the 3 is shorter, the apex excised and less recurved. In the present species also the antennz are more slender, composed of longer joints, and having no moniliform joints like those of trifasciata. The smaller number of free nervures arising from the apical portion of the upper branch of the cubitus (Albarda’s nomenclature = upper branch of inferior cubitus of Nemoura, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1894, p. 574) is also a useful character, although perhaps not absolutely constant. It is also noteworthy that in trifasciata there is usually a dark marking concave inwardly at the very apex of the wing, of which marking there is rarely, if ever, any trace in 7. Rist.
As indicated, T. Rist has been found in Switzerland (Ziirichberg) by Dr. Ris, and amongst Mr. McLachlan’s continental material there are ?’s which I refer in the meantime to this species from the following localities : Albania (S. S. Saunders) ; Pyrenees (Eaton, 10th June) ; France (Ardéche, May, Fallou; Vosges, 20th July, McLachlan).
In Britain it is probably generally distributed wher- ever there are fairly rapid streams. Mr. McLachlan has it from Haslemere, Surrey (July) ; Rannoch (between 2nd
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and 12th June, 1865, McLachlan) ; River Yealm at Corn- wood, Devon, 16th May ; and Yorkshire (Dunford Bridge, 18th June). It is the species recorded from Rannoch in Ent, Mon. Mag., vol. xxvii., p. 47, as 7. trifasciata (King and Morton), and I have found it in May and June in almost every hilly district in Scotland which I have visited.
Teniopteryx trifasciata, P.,is no doubt equally wide- spread, but in this country, and probably elsewhere, it occurs very early in the season, and is therefore perhaps less noticed. In Scotland it is very common in the Clyde district in March, and Mr. King and I found it rather plentiful at Rannoch in the first half of April last (1895). The only British ¢ in Mr. McLachlan’s collection is from the last-named locality (the late Dr. Buchanan White), but the species is well represented from the Continent : Meseritz, Posen, Prussia (Zeller, 29th April, 1849; one of the examples named by Brauer) ; Switzerland (Burg- dorf, April, Meyer-Diir); Silesia ? (presumably from Silesia, as the label is in Schneider’s handwriting) ; Turin (15th and 16th March, Ghiliani), In my own collection are examples from Bohemia and Switzerland (Klapaélek and Ris, respectively), all taken in March. All the British ¢ examples of 7’. trifasciata seen by me have the wings much abbreviated (expanse 13 to 15 mm.), whereas Continental ¢’s have usually well developed wings (23 mm.) although there are evidently exceptions, one from Turin being short-winged.
Capnia atra, 0. sp.
C. mgra, Pictet, Perlides, p. 321, pl. xxxix. (in part) ?
Head and thoracic segments in the dry insect shining blackish. Antenne blackish, legs and setze fuscous. Wings sub-hyaline with fuscous neuration. In the forewings the basal end of the lower intercubital cellule is usually acute, or at least much narrowed, and the anterior margin of the upper intercubital cellule is slightly curved. Joints of sete short. In the ¢ the large side pieces of the genital apparatus are broad at the base, upturned, and sub- acute at the apex, which when seen from above is barbed ; seen from the side there is usually visible beneath or within these pieces
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a slender curved process, with a slight projection or tooth on its under side. The ante-penultimate segment dorsally raised and covered with minute points. Exp. of forewings, 12 to 17 mm., the 2 the larger.
The ¢ first came under notice from Finnish Lapland, whence it was received from Dr. Sahlberg. It is pos- sible females were included in a collection previously received from the same valued correspondent, and were returned by me as C. nigra. The species was found by King and myself in plenty on the shores of Loch Ran- noch in April of this year. Three females from Braemar (Buchanan White) appear also to belong here; they have the wings rather abbreviated. The species probably also occurs in Switzerland, but the ¢ of the pair in Mr. McLachlan’s collection (Burgdorf, Meyer-Diir) is not in very good condition, and further Swiss material is desirable.
A smaller insect, as a rule, in the ? sex than CO. nigra, and blacker-looking when fresh. The ¢, as faras known, is full-winged. As usual, the important distinctive characters lie in the ¢ genitalia, but the points in the neuration above alluded to should be useful in separating the ¢ from that of C. nigra, if they are found as constant elsewhere as they appear to be in this country. A com- parison of fresh material will, I think, show the prothorax to be smaller, and with margins more rounded in C. atra than in C. nigra.
It should be noticed that Pictet’s figure of the neura- tion of C. nigra on pl. i., fig. 6 (Perlides, 1841), has the basal end of the lower intercubital cellule comparatively broad, while in his fig. 4, pl. xxxix., id. op., the condition is more like that usual in C. atra, the earlier figure being stated as aberrant in the relative explanation of plate xxxix. Further, Pictet says the ¢ of nigra is full- winged. On these grounds some might be inclined to hold the species above described (assuming Meyer-Diir’s examples as belonging thereto) as the true nigra. How- ever, according to information from Dr. Ris (in letters), male Capniz, practically apterous, are found in Switzer- land, and from this I conclude that the two species exist there, and I am inclined to think Pictet may have con- fused them. The differences in the figures Just alluded to become therefore of importance, and as the earlier one
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seems to refer to the species now generally known as Capnia nigra, I retain the old name for that species..
Capnia affinis, n. sp.
Very closely allied to C. atra, and of about the same size, but as far as can be judged from the examples, which are carded, more brownish in colour of the head and thorax, and with wings more greyish and paler neuration.
The genitalia are also on the same plan as in C. atra, but differ in the following details: the barbed part of the side pieces is placed dorsally, so that it is distinctly visible when viewed from the side, and the slender curved process beneath these pieces terminates simply without projection or tooth.
Three males and a number of females from Blagowik, Amurland (22nd April), received from Mr. McLachlan. This insect may only be a race or condition of C. atra, but it appears sufficiently well marked to deserve a special name.
Capnia nigra, Pictet.
C. nigra, Pictet, Perlides, p. 321, pl. xxxix (in part) and pl. i. (?). C. nigra, Brauer and Low, Neur. austr., p. 30 (1857).
Chloroperla bifrons, Newman, Ent. Mag., vol. v., p. 401 (1838), and Mag, Nat. Hist., n.s., vol. 1, p. 89.
For the sake of comparison with the species of the atra group, a few figures and notes relating to this species are given. ‘The number of nervules between the costa and sub-costa of forewings is irregular; one only is shown in figure 4, but there may be as many as three about the middle of the wing.
Only limited materials for this species have been examined. It is a common species in the Clyde district in early spring (March and April). Brauer’s Austrian types in McLachlan’s collection do not seem to differ from British examples, and I have seen similar examples from Bohemia (Klapélek). Examples from Turkestan differ so little in the structure of the d genitalia, that at
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most they can only be considered a geographical race of nigra, and females from Mingrelia are large, but other- wise not appreciably distinct.
All the Huropean males seen by me have the wings reduced to mere scales, but the ¢ from Turkestan has effective wings.
On the discovery of a second British Capnia, the Chloroperla bifrons of Newman required investigation. Mr. Waterhouse has very kindly compared the single @ type in Stephens’ collection with both species, and is of opinion that on the whole it agrees most closely with C. nigra, although the basal end of the lower intercubital cellule is hardly in the condition more typical of this species. .As already indicated this cellule is usually distinctly biangulate and rather broad at the basal end in OC. nigra.
CAPNOPSIS, n. nl.
Capnodes, Rostock, preoccupied.
Capnopsis Schilleri, Rostock. (Berliner Ent. Zeitschrift, XXxXvil., p. 38, 1892.)
Generic characters; Hindwings smaller than forewings and without any folded portion. Sub-costa terminating about the middle of the wing. No transverse veinlets between costa and radius, beyond the junction of the sub-costa. Maxillary palpi apparently with the two basal joints short, the others long ; 4th and 5th sub-equal, the 3rd slightly longer. Antennz sub-setaceous, joints elongate, only 3 or 4 at the base shorter, Tarsi with minute middle joint, 1st and 3rd joints long, sub-equal. Sets very short, with 9 or 10 joints only (probably only 7 in the ¢ if the difference be not due to mutilation).
Description : blackish, shining, clothed with short yellowish pubescence. Antenne blackish fuscous, nearly black, clothed with short yellowish hairs, with five or six stronger erect hairs at apex of each joint. Pronotum about same breadth as head, trans- verse, margins all slightly rounded, a distinct border all round, disc rugose. Wings greyish sub-hyaline, neuration fuscous. Legs fuscous with yellow pubescence. Set fuscous. In the only ¢ examined the last ventral segment is somewhat rounded at the apex, and from either side of it arises a flattened piece; these
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pieces converge, and when seen from the side are upturned and triangular in outline ; superior to these pieces and passing between the set is a large upturned tapering process (presumably the penis) which appears to have on either side of it a spiniform sheath. The ? does not appear to have any salient characters at apex of abdomen. Expanse of forewings: ¢, 9} mm.; @, 12 mm.
Originally described from near Dresden it has since been received from Finland, where it has been taken in several localities by Sahlberg and Palmén. As its con- tinental range is thus considerable, it may yet prove to be an inhabitant of Great Britain.
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EXpLANAtioN or Puate II.
Nemoura Sahlbergi, %.
. Apex of abdomen from beneath. . Apex of lateral appendage from side, internal aspect (more
enlarged). Apex of lateral appendage from side, external aspect (more enlarged),
Teniopteryx Risi, g.
. Apex of abdomen from side (from fresh example and much
enlarged).
. Ventral plate from side (dry). . Apex of ventral plate from above (dry).
Teniopteryx trifasciata, $.
. Apex of ventral plate from above (dry). . Apex of abdomen from side (dry).
Capnia nigra.
. Apex of abdomen of ¢ from side. . Apex of penis (?) from side in outline much enlarged
(Scotland).
. Apex of penis (?) from side in outline much enlarged
(Turkestan).
. Neuration of anterior wing of 9, a, 0, intercubital cellules. . Neuration of posterior wing of 9.
Capnia atra, &.
. Apex of abdomen from side. . Intercubital cellules of anterior wing. . Dorsal view of side piece of genitalia (much enlarged).
Capnia affinis, &.
. Apex of abdomen from side.
Capnopsis Schilleri.
. Neuration of anterior wing. . Neuration of posterior wing. . Apex of abdomen of ¢ from side, nearer seta removed.
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II. On the Relation of Mimetic Patterns to the Original Form.* By Frepertck A. Drxny, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
[Read Feb. 5th, 1896.] Pirates JIE, Ve, & -V.
I. Tae Grapuat Growrs or A Mimetic Parrern.
Iris now many years ago that Fritz Miller published an answer to those opponents of the theory of mimicry who made much of the difficulty of accounting for the first advances towards the formation of a mimetic pattern.t In the course of this communication he pointed out (as indeed Darwin had done before him) that mimicker and mimicked might, in many instances, be reasonably supposed to have started, not from a position of wide divergence from each other, but rather with the possession of some feature or features, common to them both, which should give material ready to hand ‘or the assimilative process to work upon. The chief instance relied on by Fritz Miiller in support of his contention was the well-known mimetic genus of Pierine butterflies known as Leptalis or Dismorphia.t The black and yellow Leptalis (Dismorphia) ‘melia, according to him, was to be regarded as representing the primitive type of coloration of the genus; and although it did not itself mimic any other form, it never- theless showed independently so much of the character- istic Heliconine colours and arrangement of pattern, that the complete Heliconine aspect presented by many of its near relatives could be derived from it with com- paratively slight modification.
* A preliminary abstract of the present paper has appeared in the British Association Reports for 1894.
+ ‘‘Einige Worte tber Leptalis,’ Jenaisch. Zeitschr., vol. x., 1876, p. 1.
¢ The old genus Dismorphia has been divided by Messrs. Godman & Salvin into Dismorphia, Pseudopieris, Enantia, and Acmepteron, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Rhopal. IL, p. 174. Dr, Butler further distinguishes Moschoneura, Cist. Entom., Pt. iii.
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The instance chosen by Fritz Miiller was unfortunate. A wider view of Pierine affinities than he had the oppor- tunity of taking would no doubt have led him to the conclusion that, after all, the original Leptalis probably was a white or white and black butterfly, and not a black and yellow or black and orange insect like Leptalis (Dismorphia) melia. Moreover, the position that D. melia is not a mimic can hardly be sustained. It bears a very considerable resemblance to D. ewmara, which is itself an almost exact copy of Actinote pellenea ; Actinote being the neotropical representative of the well-known inedible genus Acrxa. There is little room to doubt that D. melia, so far from preserving the primitive Leptalis type, has diverged to some distance therefrom under the influence of mimicry.
But although Fritz Miiller’s principal instance does not appear to me to be strong enough to bear the weight of argument that he rests upon it, there cannot be much question that his contention in the main is perfectly sound; and that, as a general principle, the process of mimetic assimilation depends rather on the development of old, than on the starting of new features, either of pattern or of colour.
In order to illustrate this principle, I have prepared the series of figures shown in Plates III. and IV., Figs. 1-12. These represent an array of facts that I venture to think are in many respects of great interest.
Fig. 1 shows the underside of the male of one of the ordinary neotropical non-mimetic Pierines*, a true Pieris as that genus is restricted by Dr. Butler—P. locusta of Felder. The chief points to be observed are in the hindwing. ‘They are (1), the spots or patches of bright red which are found at the base of the precostal, median and internal spaces respectively (Fig. 1, a, c,d); (2) a well-defined yellow streak (e) occupying the costal space ; (3) a pale central area (f), in many specimens yellowish, occupying the region of the cell and the adjacent portion of the wing, especially. towards the internal border ; (4) a dark shade (h, 7) on the anal and costal sides respectively of the pale central area. The present species happens to be a rather heavily coloured member of its group, but in other species of the same genus
* See below, p. 72, note.
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Pieris we get a great lightening of the general tone of colour, without however losing the essential features now referred to. In P. phaloe for instance, also a non- mimetic Pieris from the same neotropical region, we have as it were an attenuated and washed-out version. of the scheme of marking seen on the hindwing of P. locusta. Here (Fig. 2) are visible the same basal red patches, though now confined to the precostal and internal spaces ; the same pale costal streak and central area, now in most specimens white rather than yellow; and on either side of the latter the same two dark shades, now reduced to a pair of brownish streaks. From either of these types to the well-known Heliconine form here represented by Heliconius numata (Fig. 11), seems a sufficiently long step; nor is it at first sight apparent that there is any- thing in common between the former and the latter schemes of coloration. Nevertheless, while it will be allowed on the one hand that the female of Mylothris pyrrha (Figs. 9, 10) presents a very good imitation of HT. numata, it can be shown on the other hand that this last-named Pierine owes its mimetic features to a simple development of characters already possessed by the other Pierine forms just spoken of, to which it is closely allied.
In order to make this apparent, it will be necessary to refer to some of the other neotropical species of the same genus Mylothris. This interesting httle group, comprising besides M. pyrrha the closely related M. malenka, M. lypera, and M. lorena, has been more than once spoken of by Mr. Wallace* as affording an instance of mimetic females associated with males of the ordinary white type of Pierine coloration. It is quite true that all the males throughout the group exhibit on their upper surfaces nothing but the ordmary white character; Mr. Wallace, however, does not mention the curious fact that the same males universally show on the under surface, though in varying degrees, an approach towards the Heliconine pattern that is so completely imitated by their mates. These partially developed features on the under surface of the males enable us to trace the history of the growth of the mimetic pattern.
Let us take the underside of the male of Mylothris
* “Tropical Nature,” 1878, p. 204 ; “ Darwinism,” 1889, p. 271.
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lypera (Fig. 3), and compare it with that of Pieris locusta. ‘here is no difficulty in identifying the principal markings as before enumerated. The yellow costal streak and central area (e, f) and the anterior and posterior dark shades (h, 7) are present in MV. lypera as in P. locusta, all occupying the same relative positions; the precostal red however has disappeared, and the internal and median touches of the same colour have united and prolonged them - selves into a triangular streak reaching about a third of the way across the wing (cd). A small dark area (9), which in P. locusta lies immediately posterior to the internal red patch, hasin MM. lypera extended itself in the same direction with the extension of the patch, and has, beyond the outer extremity of the latter, united with the anterior dark area (i) in such a way as to completely surround the red patch with a distinct region of black. All the areas somewhat vaguely indicated in P. locusta have in M, lypera acquired a distinct and definite character with sharply-marked, clear-cut borders. There is no doubt of the homology of the markings in the two cases, nor does the change from one to the other deserve to be called either violent or abrupt.
The underside of the male of MW. lorena (Vig. 4) takes us a step onward. Here are exactly the same features, but with a further development along the same lines. The red patch has now become a definite streak reaching half-way across the wing, but still bears the same rela- tion to the anterior dark area. ‘The costal streak and central area have undergone a similar elongation, and in this instance are much paler in colour. The whole aspect perhaps recalls that of P. phaloe rather than that of P. locusta, and the correspondence with the former insect is still further borne out by the presence of a diagonal dark streak (/) in the forewing, part of which is indicated in P. phaloe, uniting the costal with the posterior or outer margin.
The general streakiness of the male of MW. lorena is preserved or enhanced in the male of M. pyrrha (Fig. 5). ‘There is in this case no diagonal dark band crossing the forewing, but the red streak of the hindwing acquires additional distinctness and importance, while the banded appearance is further increased by a slight change in the disposition of the enveloping black.
As far as the hindwing is concerned, we have now
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all but reached the complete mimetic condition of M. pyrrha 2 (Figs. 9,10). The only thing still wanting is an infusion of more or less brownish red into the pale yellow or orange of the costal and central streaks. It is observable that even in the female J. pyrrha the assi- milation between the old red of the basal patch and the new red of the costal and central areas is not quite per- fect, the former always retaining on the under surface a more vigorous and decided tint than the latter (see Hise Oye, cd,f ). :;
With regard to the forewing, there is no doubt a con- siderable interval between the male and female of M. pyrrha. An inspection, however, of the female of M. lorena and M. malenka (Figs. 6, 7, 8), enables us to see how it may be bridged over. Comparing the sexes of M. lorena (Figs. 4, 6, 7), we find that their patterns are identical in the main features, though the female has an additional dark streak in the forewing (/) running parallel with the inner border. The central pale area of the hindwing has also in the female almost or entirely disappeared from the lower surface, while the other spaces on both wings which in the male are white or very pale yellow, assume in the female a deeper yellow, warming towards the base of the wing to an orange or brownish red. These changes, comparatively slight as they are, are sufficient to give the female M. lorena, a decidedly Heliconine aspect. ‘They point out, moreover, the manner in which the still more completely Heliconine facies of M. malenka ? (Fig. 8) and M. pyrrha ¢ (Figs. 9, 10) may grow naturally out of the Pierine materials already noticed. A very close comparison of M. pyrrha with H. numata (Figs. 10, 11) will indeed show that the correspondence of markings is not abso- lutely perfect in every particular; nevertheless, the general effect is marvellously alike, and if assisted by similarity in habits and mode of flight, must be amply sufficient for all practical purposes of protection to the Mylothris.
Looking at this series as a whole, and bearing in mind that it would be possible to include other forms * which would render the gradation still easier than is shown
® For example, P, marana and M. lypera ¢.
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here, we cannot, I think, feel any doubt that it is sufh- cient to demonstrate the possibility of the formation of a practically perfect mimetic pattern from the crdinary form of a quite distinct type, without any violent or abrupt changes of design. It does not, indeed, lend any support to the view that mimicry can only originate between forms that already possess considerable and obvious resemblance to one another, nor does it coun- tenance the opinion that mimetic changes are effected per saltum. What the series of forms here figured does show is that, granted a beginning however small, such as the basal red touches in the normal Pierines, an elaborate and practically perfect mimetic pattern may be evolved therefrom by simple and easy stages.
II. Sexuat Dimorrnism in Mimetic Forms.
There remains, in regard to the foregoing series, a question of great interest ; namely, what is the meaning of the diversity between the sexes in these more or less completely mimetic forms? Why should the oue sex have advanced so much further along the mimetic path than the other? It is no doubt the case that the females stand in greater need of protection than the males, but to say this still leaves several questions unanswered. Are we right in regarding the male patterns as perpetu- ating stages through which the other sex has also passed in order to reach its present state of mimetic completeness, or are we to suppose that the selection by enemies has affected only the female sex, and that the patterns seen on the malesare merely an incidental result of heredity, beimg, in fact, a secondary version of the female pattern transmitted in a weaker form? In either case, what has checked the further development of mimicry in the male? Is this imperfect development simply a passive result of the absence of necessity for change, or is there some active force at work preventing a further modification ? It is well known that an explana- tion of a somewhat similar case has been sought in the p?inciple of sexual selection ; the females, it was suggested, as the more conservative sex, preferring in their mates the ancestral type of coloration of the group.* Mr. Wallace,
* Belt, “ Naturalist in Nicaragua,” Ed. 1888, p. 385.
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on the other hand, points out that in the Pierine group before us the habits of the two sexes are different; that whereas the females haunt the forest glades in company with the Heliconii, the males congregate and fly in the open with other species of white butterflies, among whom a reddish or brownish insect would be especially con- spicuous, and would be very hable to experimental tasting.* This fact would seem to supply an active check on the development of the pattern in the male, but it still leaves undetermined the meaning of so much of the Heliconine colouring as does exist, and of this Mr. Wallace has offered no explanation.
I am myself inclined to think that however much it may be to the advantage of these male forms to be taken under some circumstances for white butterflies of the ordinary kind, yet there must be times and occasions— probably while the insect is at rest and settled—when the partial mimicry of the underside comes into play, and tends to afford protection. An instance in support of this view exists in Hesperocharis hirlanda (Fig. 12). This insect, like the males of those that have just been considered, is on the upper surface an ordinary white butterfly of the usuel kind; the lower surface, however, presents an incipient mimetic pattern of a like degree of development with those of Mylothris. lorena $ and M. pyrrha 5. ‘This can be no feeble reflection of a mimetic pattern complete in the female, for the sexes of H. hirlanda hardly differ; moreover H. hirlanda, with one or two other forms probably not specifically distinct from it, is the only species of its genus which shows any approach towards a mimetic coloration. ‘I'he mimicry, slight as it is, must therefore, it would seem, be of some service, as otherwise it would in this case be meaning- less; and if this be so with H. hirlanda, it is reasonable to suppose that whatever amount of protection such an approach to the Heliconine pattern confers, is also shared by the males of Mylothris.
A further point of interest that arises in connection with H. hirlanda is this—that a mimetic effect which generally resembles that of M. nyrrha 4, is here reached by different means. Hesperocharis, like Mylothris, starts no doubt from a regular Pierine form, such as that
* “ Tropical Nature,” 1878, p. 205.
72 Dr. F, A. Dixey on the Relation of exhibited by P. phaloe; but whereas in Mylothris the
main red streak of the hindwing arises from the internal and median basal red, and js ceutral (Fig. 5, cd), in Hesperocharis it results from a development of the pre- costal and costal red patches, and occupies the correspond- ing regions of the wing (Fig. 12, a, b). The precostal red is undeveloped in Mylothris, and the median red is undeveloped in Hesperocharis. One result of this is that in the latter form the relative position of the main yellow and red streaks is reversed; notwithstanding which the general resemblance to Mylothris is consider- able, and the difference would very probably remain undetected by many insectivorous animals. ‘I'he present point has already been noticed by me elsewhere.* I draw attention to it here simply because it affords another illustration of the gradual growth of mimetic patterns from an original non-mimetic form.+
III. Recrrrocat. Miwicry BETWEEN INEDIBLE Forms.
In the previous communication to the Entomological Society{ of which I have already made mention, I drew attention to certain facts which I] am now able to illustrate by Pl. V., Figs. 15 and 14, representing the undersides of a Pierine (Pereute leucodrosime) and a Heliconius (H. mel- pomene) respectively. Both Heliconius and Pereute are, it will be seen, furnished with basal red spots, and this is the ease with very many of the Heliconii and their
* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 286.
+ Throughout the foregoing remarks, P. phaloc and P. locusta g, have been spoken of as non-mimetic forms. This is undoubtedly the case with P. phaloe, but it is perhaps possible that even in P. locusta g, the underside of the hindwing may have (especially in darkly-coloured individuals) a certain mimetic value. The underside of the hindwing in P. locusta, P. cinerea and some others resembles that of Heliconius melpomene and other protected species in giving the general idea of a dark wing-area with yellow costal or precostal streak and basal red spots. The forewing of P. locusta contains a large surface of white, but this would be partly or wholly concealed in the resting position. It is true also that the yellow streak and red patches do not occupy exactly corresponding positions in the Pieris and the Heliconius ; but there is abundant evidence to show that while affinity displays great respect for the exact position on the wing of any given feature of the pattern, mimicry to a large extent disregards this, and aims rather at a general similarity of effect. See the instance of Hesperocharis hirlanda above, and see also below, p. 74, note.
t{ Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894, pp. 296, etc
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Pierine imitators. What is the meaning of this coinci- dence? ‘The first answer that suggests itself is that it is simply an ordinary case of mimicry ; the red spots belong originally to the Heliconius, and the Pierine has acquired similar spots in order to complete the mimetic picture. ‘wo facts, however, militate against this supposition. ‘he first is that these red patches, so far from being confined to the mimicking Pierines, are found to have a very wide distribution throughout the whole Pierine subfamily, existing not only, as we have seen, in non- mimetic neotropical forms such as Pieris locusta and P. phaloe, but in numerous old-world genera as well, reaching a great development in the Indian and Austra- lian Delias, and having even left a relic in the common white butterflies of our own country. It would be extra- vagant to suppose that these widespread characters owe their origin simply to the necessity for mimicking certain South American Heliconti. Moreover, as I have else- where shown, such an origin for the old-world forms as this hypothesis would involve is at variance with what is known of Pierine phylogeny. The second fact is that although several Heliconti which are not the subjects of mimicry show marks of the kind, yet they are most con- stant, most distinct and most Pierine-like in species of Heliconius that serve as models. There must, it would seem, be a relation between the two forms which is not entirely due to mimicry by the Pierine. Are we then to say that the Heliconius is the mimic and the Pierine the model? This would appear to be going against all received ideas on the subject, and to be negatived by all that is known of the inedible qualities of Heliconius and of the ancestral coloration of the Pierines ; nevertheless, with respect to the particular marks in question I believe that it comes near to the true expression of the fact, and I would suggest that the key to the difficulty is to be found in the following considerations.
It has been well shown by Fritz Miiller,* whose con- clusions have been followed and amplified by Meldola and Poulton, that there exist two kinds of mimetic associa- tions—in one of which an edible form shelters itself by resemblance to another form well known to be inedible, this being the aspect of mimicry first detected and explained by Bates; while in the other a group is constituted all of whose members are inedible, and join
* “ Kosmos,” 1879, p. 100.
74 Dr. F. A. Dixey on the Relation of
forces, so to speak, in order to share the dangers of experimental tasting. In the first kind it is obvious that the only imitation must be by the unprotected of the protected form ; there is no force tending in the converse direction. But in the second kind it does not seem to have been sufficiently noticed that, especially if the numbers of the associated species are approximately equal, there may fairly be expected to arise a kind of cive-and-take arrangement, in consequence of which two or more inedible forms may hasten the assimilative process by imitating each other. ‘his is my reading of the case beforeus. ‘There are some independent grounds* for thinking that the mimicking Pierines in this par- ticular group of instances are not, as has been generally assumed, edible. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that being distasteful, like the associated Heliconii, and forming with them a company for mutual protection, they have both taken from and bestowed on them characteristic features of pattern—both sides, in fact, having undergone what I some time since ventured to call “ reciprocal mimicry.” I have elsewhere given more detailed reasons in support of this view ; I reintroduce it here for the sake of illustrating it from those Pierine marks that have been specially under consideration.t
* E.g., (1) the abundance of some of the mimetic’species of the same or of a closely allied genus, as Pereute charops and Euterpe tereas (testified to by Messrs. Godman and Salvin and by Fritz Miiller respectively) ; and (2) the fact that the nearest old-world representatives of the same group, i.e., the members of the genus Delias, have all the characteristics of insects protected by a disagreeable taste or odour.
+ It may perhaps be objected that the resemblance between such forms as are represented in Figs. 13, 14 is not sufficiently close to warrant the supposition of mutual protection between them. To this it may be replied, that (1) the colour of the diagonal band of the forewing is probably in the living Heliconius much nearer to that of the Perewte than appears in the figure, which was taken from a specimen that had been for some years in the Hope collec- tion. It is well known that the reds in Heliconius and Acrea are especially apt to fade on keeping. (2) ‘he resemblance may be enhanced by attitude, the figures having been drawn without any particular attention to this. (5) The brightly coloured basal marks, though occupying different relative positions in the two insects, convey the same general idea of a gently-curving, slender, white or vellow streak (belonging to the forewing in the Pereute and the jindwing in the Heltconius), beset near its base with isolated spots of vivid red, and traversing a black or dark-brown area of wing close to the body.
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The same argument will apply to features similar to the above which may be seen in certain Papilionine, Nymphaline, Erycinide, and even in some moths. And I may say in passing that Fritz Miiller’s principle here referred to appears to me to be of much wider applecation than has been hitherto supposed. There exist several large groups more or less uniform in their scheme of coloration, though heterogeneous in their affinities, which it seems almost certain will in the main turn out to be cases of ‘inedible associations,’ each one possibly including a few instances of true mimicry witbin its borders. In deciding on the actual nature of such resemblances, it may be