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nearly purple, and has an orange tuft ; venter with ligfot yellow scale* 

 laterally, and an irregular median dark blue stripe extending the whole 

 length of the abdomen. 



Legs : Coxse and trochanters dark, with brilliant light yeJIow scales ; 

 femora of fore legs light-scaled at base, with dark iridescent scales on the 

 dorsal aspect for the distal two-thirds of its length ; femora of mid-legs 

 dark ; femora of hind legs light for the proximal two-thirds, all a yellowish 

 white ventrally ; tibiae of fore legs dark dorsally and light venHrally 

 except the very base and apex, which are a brilliant golden yellow ; tibiae 

 of mid-legs mostly golden yellow, darker near the base, and a band of 

 dark scales at the apex ; tibise of hind legs dark blue, with green 

 iridescence; metatarsi of fore legs nearly white, except a small basal spot 

 ''of 'dark blue on the ventral aspect ; of mid-leg nearly white, except a 

 xrather large dark spot on the dorsal surface ; of hind legs dark blme^ 

 "except a light basal band ; ist tarsal of fore leg is white, except an apical 

 dark band, all the remaining joints dark; ist tarsal on mid-leg and all the 

 following are light yellow to white, except the last, which has a brown tip ; 

 ist tarsal of hind legs is light, with a tiny dark apex, all the rest of the 

 joints dark. Ungues simple and equal. In some lights there is a very 

 narrow apical band of violet on all the femora, and on the mid and hind 

 tibicC reddish. 



Wing clear reddish brown, sparsely scaled with brown, broadly 

 truncate scales; ist submarginal cell very short, very little more than half 

 the length of 2nd posterior, and much narrower ; mid and posterior cross- 

 veins meet, and are about the same length ; supernumerary cross-vein 

 about half the length of mid, and three times its own length exterior to 

 mid. Halteres orange brown. 



There is a strong fold near fifth long vein, so that it makes a curva- 

 ture in the margin of the wing. 



Length, 12 -f mm. 



Habitat, Margosatubig, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Taken June and July. 



Described from five specimens sent by Dr. H Newton Kierulf, Cont. 

 Surg. U. S. Army, and evidently lies near speciosiis, Skuse, and Marshalii, 

 Theob., and may easily be the female of a species in which only the male 

 has been known, but at all events it is sufficiently unlike such descriptions 

 as I have been able to find to warrant my assuming it to be new. 



(To be continued.) 



