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margin near the base of the wing is more conspicuous, and closes, or nearly closes, the 

 apical portion of the cellule above it. 

 Male unknown. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



The entirely different colour of this insect and the preceding cannot be taken into 

 account in separating the two, as they belong to a group in which different individuals 

 of the same species often show differences in coloration precisely similar to that exhibited 

 by these two insects, but I believe they are really distinct. 



Hab. Kilauea, Hawaii; i ? taken in August, 1896. 



(16) Anomalochrysa maclachlani Blackb. 



Anomalochrysa maclachlani Blackburn, Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) xiv. (1884), p. 418. 

 Hab. Mauna Loa, Hawaii (6000 ft.) in May, 1882. (Blackburn.) 



(17) Anomalochrysa deceptor, sp. nov. 



This is a very variable species, and the extreme forms are totally unlike one 

 another in general appearance. 



The following three forms of coloration no doubt constantly occur. 



(i) Head, thorax and abdomen entirely flavous, or partly greenish (in life 

 probably sometimes entirely green). (2) Abdomen and sides of the thorax yellowish 

 or green, face yellow or pink, and a crimson stripe extending from the front of the 

 vertex of the head to the mesothorax, antennae at the base in these examples often 

 pink. (3) Whole body dark brown, or with the meso- and metathorax, or one of these 

 parts more or less pale, green or yellow. 



Intermediate forms occur, e.g. a large part of the thorax may be yellow or greenish, 

 the abdomen dark, and the face pink, &c. 



The wings also vary, and may be hyaline and colourless, or themselves slightly 

 greenish, or they may be whitish and opaque ; nor is this condition of the wings 

 confined to examples with a particular coloration of the body. These white-winged 

 examples generally have dark spots on the anterior pair, but this is not invariably 

 the case, and the spots are generally few, and confined to the base of the wing along 

 the dorsal margin, but sometimes are more extensive. 



The nervuration is always pale, green or yellow, except that the gradate nervules 

 are usually, if not always, more or less dark, and the dorsal margin of the anterior wings 

 is sometimes pink. 



