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rhinarium chiefl\- dark brown ; a black line along the 

 suture between nasus and frons ; a black crescent on 

 the top of the frons, joined b}- a stem to the black line 

 in front of the e\-es. Top of vertex \-ello\\'. Ej'cs blue, 

 in contact for a long distance ; behind the eyes a 

 triangular \-ello\v spot. Prothorax dark, \-ello\vish behind. 

 Thorax dark brown ; two narrow curved }'ellow stripes 

 in front ; two oblit|ue ones on each side, rather narrow, 

 \'ellow", edged with black lines ; spots at the attachment 

 of wings \-ellow ; projections between them chief!}- blue. 

 Ll\o-s black, a little }'cllow at the base of the fore-legs 

 below. JI'/z/^-s hx'aline, in old specimens sometimes 

 tinted with sepia ; costa golden ; other ner\'ures black ; 

 anal angle of hind-wings strongh- pointed. Ptcrostigiiia 

 narrow, o\-er 4mm. long, dark brown. Acccssoiy incinbraiic 

 short, but broad ; basal half white, hinder part ash\'. 

 xibdoincu swollen at segments i and 2 ; auricles on the 

 latter ; much constricted at segment 3, thence to the 

 end of almost uniform width ; ground-colour dark brow n, 

 in neighbourhood of spots darker, sutures black ; arrange- 

 ment of spots much as in AL. cyaiica, but on segment 2 

 the mid-dorsal triangle is much reduced, and if it reaches 

 be\'ond the middle of segment does so onh- as a line. 

 The thin \'ellowish line of ^E. cyaiica immediatel}- behind 

 the sutures generally appears in ^-E. jitncea as a small 

 yellow dot ; the large posterior spots are blue ; the spots 

 on the ventral surface are }-ellowish ; on segments 9 and 

 10 are in each case tico distinct blue posterior spots. 

 Upper aiial appendages dark brown, somewhat short and 

 slender, with an internal line of hairs ; lower appen- 

 dage about two-thirds the length of upper ones, tri- 

 angular, light brown with black border, rounded at tip. 



