This is a unique species in the genus as far as I have yet had the opportunity of ascertaining.

W.E.S.

NEUROPTERA.

Bittacus australis, Klug.  Monogr.  Panorp.  Berlin Transactions sp. no. 11.

Habitat King George’s Sound.

HEMIPTERA.

CHOEROCYDNUS, n.g.

Head broad, in front somewhat truncated; ocelli wanting; antennae five-jointed, second joint longest, third, fourth and fifth, somewhat thickened and nearly equal; beak reaching to base of last pair of legs, if not beyond; third joint the longest; thorax in front notched for reception of head, not so wide as the body; scutellum long and pointed, the line separating it from hemelytra very indistinct; hemelytra without a membrane at the end; tibiae very spiny; abdomen broadest behind; tarsi of fore-legs very feeble, two-jointed, second joint shorter than the first, and ending in two claws.

Choerocydnus foveolatus, new species.  Illustration 23 Insects 6.

Dark pitchy brown; head, thorax, and body margined with hairs; head above minutely punctured, an elongated space in the middle, smooth; thorax above minutely punctured with some larger impressed dots, and irregularly shaped smooth spaces, the coriaceous part pitted; antennae and tarsi light ferruginous.

Inhabits King George’s Sound.

LEPIDOPTERA.

Papilio liris, Godart.  Encycl.  Meth. 9 Papilio page 72 no. 132.  Boisduval
Spec. gener. des Lepidopt. 1 page 269 number 92.  De Haan.  Bijdr. etc. 
Verh.  Nat. geschied. etc.  Zool.  Insecta tab. 4 f. 3 page 40.

It may perhaps be not altogether foreign to the purpose of this list to say that in the collection of the British Museum there are two specimens of this species from the North-west coast of New Holland, where they were collected by the late Mr. Allan Cunningham.  The whole of his collection was bought by Mr. Children, and many of the rare Lepidoptera in it were named by Mr. G.R.  Gray.  Godart’s description of the body agrees exactly with the male in the national collection, les cotes et le bout de l’abdomen d’un rouge-carmin tendre.  Boisduval, in the standard work above alluded to, says of this species, dessous et extremite de l’abdomen d’un rouge carmin.  FEMELLE SEMBLABLE AU MALE, sur quatre individus que nous possedons, AUCUN NE VARIE.  In one of the Museum specimens (a female) the abdomen is nearly entirely black, and the brown in both specimens is of the same rich deep shade that is found in the Papilio polydorus.  The abdomen may possibly be that of some other species, as the specimen is not in very good condition.  I regard the specimens from the north-west coast of New Holland as a slight local variety.  Godart’s specimens came from the East Indies and Boisduval’s from Timor.  I find that Monsieur W. de Haan, in the splendid work published at Leyden on the Natural History of the Dutch colonies in the East and West Indies, etc.