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yellow along each side, excepting the borders, which are black, rounded and 

 slightly reflexed; hind border straight. Legs stout; trochanters and 

 ungues testaceous ; spines of the tibiae dark red; arolia very small. Fore 

 wings with four yellow spots ; first spot basal ; sec<u)d very near the base of 

 the hind border; third and fourth subcostal; third at one-fourth of the 

 length; fourth at half the length; apical space whitish, hyaline, with pale 

 yellow veins; costal veins pale yellow, strongly marked. Right fore wing 

 more largely hyaline than the other one. Hind winjis pellucid ; veins 

 whitish. Length of the body 10| lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



The markings of the prolhorax sufficiently distinguish it from N. dis- 

 coidalis, to which it is most nearly allied. It has also much affiuity to 

 N. amwna, hut the colour of the anteuns is different. 



o. Cambodia. From M. Mouhot's collection. 



10. Nauphceta discoidalis. 

 Mas et fcem. Nigra, longi-fusiformis, puree punctata; caput luteo 

 fasciatum; palpi basi testacei ; anlenna corporis dimidio longiores ; 

 prolhorax Jlavus, macula discoidali maryineque nigris ; abdomen 

 piceum, maculis lateralibus trigonis apiceque subinciso testaceis ; 

 pedes fulvi,robusti ; al(B anticw Jlavo trimaculatte ; ala dextra pallide 

 cinerea, piceo uniplagiata ; ala sinistra picea, apice cinerea ; alee 

 poslica pallide cinerece, striga costali fuscescente. 



Male and female. Black, elongate-fusiform, flat, shining. Head and 

 thorax thinly punctured. Head with a pale yellow spot on each side near 

 the pale yellow socket of the antenna; a transverse impression in front of 

 the spots; a luteous band near the mouth. Eyes testaceous. First joint 

 of the palpi testaceous; third securiform, longer than the second. Anteunje 

 slender, very slightly setulose, more than half the length of the body. 

 Prolhorax yellow, rounded on each side; disk and border black; discoidal 

 spot slightly concave on the fore side, with two notches on the hind side, 

 which is very near the hind border. Hind borders of the mesothorax and 

 of the metaihorax yellow. Abdomen above piceous, with triangular tes- 

 taceous spots along each side; under side tawny at the base; subanal 

 lamina testaceous, slightly notched. Legs tawny, stout. Left fore wing 

 piceous, with three yellow spots; first spot large, along the base of the hind 

 border; second discoidal, large; third small, subcostal, near the base; tips 

 cinereous, hyaline, with piceous veins ; costa yellow and rounded towards 

 the base; costal veins yellow. Right lore wing pale cinereous and hyaline, 

 excepting the yellow marks and an intermediate piceous patch. Hind 

 wings pale cinereous, hyaline; veins and a costal streak brownish. Length 

 of the body 9 lines; of the wings 12 — 18 lines. 



This species is also closely allied to N. amiBna, hut differs from it iu 

 the markings of the prothorax and of the fore wings. 



o, b. New Guinea. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 

 c. Wagiou. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



11. Nauphgeta ruficeps. 



Fcem. Nigra, longi-ovata ; caput rufum, nigro fasciatum, pro ihoracem 

 sat svperans ; antenna corpore mullo breviores; prothorax pilusus, 



