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apical borderland with oblong deeper yellow spots in the large 

 areoles on and beyond the middle; the tawny clavus is inter- 

 rupted by a longitudinal series of three or four white spots, and 

 the base of the apical series of areoles has a group of four round 

 whitish spots ; postuodal areole oblong, with an oblique vein at 

 base and a curved one at tip ; the central apical areole largest, 

 triangular, with the inner narrow end truncated, the apical 

 areole next the postnodal one five-angled, placed transversely ; 

 the apical inner areole bounded inwardly by a brown vein with 

 a paler arrest on the middle, discoidal medial areole bounded at 

 base and tip by dark brown veinlets, as also the postnodal and 

 the apical cell next beyond it. Head pale testaceous, unspotted 

 beneath, marked with two large orange spots above, and more 

 or less interrupted with orange around the borders, the middle 

 with a sharply defined white line, anterior margin a little 

 recurved, bounded by a slender black line which is interrupted 

 in the middle, and with another, complete, black line just below 

 the margin, and crossing the eyes in the dead insect. Antennae 

 piceous, testaceous at base. Pronotum suiFused with orange, 

 having a transverse curved series of four or more white spots 

 before the impressed curved line, and with three pale longi- 

 tudinal lines behind this area, a whitish spot appears before 

 the humeral angle, and the lateral and posterior margins also 

 white. Scutellum tawny with the lateral margins interrupted 

 ivory white, and with a series of white spots each side of the 

 middle. Underside of the entire body whitish testaceous. 

 Legs pale testaceous, spines of the posterior tibiae placed on 

 black dots, apex of each tarsal joint and also the nails black. 

 Veins of wings dark piceous. 



Length to end of abdomen $ 5 ? 5| millims ; to tip of wing- 

 covers 5J-6| millims. Width of pronotum 1| millims. 



This little beauty is quite variable in depth and amount of 

 color, and also in pattern of markings. The female sometimes 

 has a double series of white spots on the clavus, and various 

 other rounded white spots scattered over the corium. A viv- 

 idly colored variety has the vertex bright orange with a wide 

 white band across the base, and also with the pronotum of the 

 same orange color, crossed by a pale band, 



