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INSECTS ABliOAD. 



where I took a few of a very small long- tailed species at flowers. 

 At Ega, a few miles up the Teffi, I took one of another very 

 handsome species at flowers, very distinct from all the others." 



The colours of this large genus are very similar throughout, 

 and are generally black, scarlet, and white, the scarlet in some 

 species giving way to yellow. 



Our first example, Zconia Faunus, has the greater part of 

 both wings nearly transparent. The upper wings are entirely 



Fio. 3(J3. — Zeouia Faunus 

 (Black, scarlet, and white.) 



surrounded with a band of black, powdered with tiny gr<iy 

 specks, and a rather jagged bar of the same hue runs through 

 the middle. The upper part of the lower wings is edged witli 

 jetty black, and the lower part with black, powdered like the 

 upper wings. In the midst of the black are two spots of 

 scarlet, with a slight tint of orange — something like that lovely 

 but too fugitive " pure scarlet " of the colour-makers — one of 

 the spots being large and oval, and the other small and circular. 

 The colours are nearly identical on the upper and under surface 

 of the wing. 



There is only one specimen in tlie British Museum. 



On the accompanying illustration are given the two sexes of 

 Zeonia Batcsii, in order to show the curious difference of sliape 

 as well as colour between the males and females. The colours 

 are arranged in much the same manner as those of the preceding 



