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on 3 and 4 small subdorsal spot and large angular lateral one, cut by the 

 £innulet incisures ; at each horn, a large lateral patch, triangular above, 

 cut obliquely into three stripes, of which the upper one runs forward onto 

 the next segment, to its anterior edge laterally, the one running onto joint 

 5 with a duplicating spot above it ; a row of subventral dashes on joints 

 3 to 13; a broken V-mark on the anal pilate. Thoracic feet black ; 

 abdominal ones with black spots outwardly, pubescent. 

 Food plant: Ficus. 



Protogonius cecrops Doubleday and Hewitson. 



Head large, disk-shaped, gently convex in front, flat behind to a nar- 

 row neck ; roughened with large tubercles dorsally ; black, streaked verti- 

 cally with yellow on the lower half ; at vertex of each lobe, a black 

 truncate horn, about twice as long as wide, roughened with tubercles ; a 

 smooth conical bright yellow tubercle below it ; a group of five yellow 

 tubercles on the side, with a black one in front, each with vertical hairs 

 and several side ones ; other smaller tubercles, the whole surface irregu- 

 larly rugose and pitted. Body cylindrical, neck small, joints 3 to 7 regu- 

 larly inflated ; skin with minute yellow tubercles and secondary pile ; a 

 rather conspicuous row of them around the anal plate ; skin light yellow- 

 ish (green^) with small red-brown blotches, especially subdorsally, most 

 distinct on joints 3, 4, 6, 9 to 1 3, the terminal segments washed with 

 black. 



Family SYNTOMID/E 



Episcepsis vinasia Schaus. 



Head moderate, rounded, quadrate below, clypeus small ; dull yellow- 

 ish, a slight dark shade on vertices of lobes. Body cylindrical, a little 

 flattened, uniform ; whitish, with a more opaque and slightly pinkish sub- 

 dorsad band ; a series of black marks in dorsal space ; cervical shield 

 blackish, divided ; a smoky quadrate patch on joint 3, becoming black 

 anteriorly ; a light red patch on joint 4 ; on 5 to II three dorsal spots 

 on each segment and wart i also black, the spots largest and confluent on 

 joint 5, somewhat enlarged also on joints 8 and 1 1 ; a single spot only 

 on joints 12 to 14; sides and feet entirely pale. Warts i somewhat 

 reduced, iv small ; on the thorax, one wart only above the stigmatjJ 

 wart. Hairs sparse, white, spinulose, longer laterally ; a few longer black- 



' Probably green when alive as in Sepp's figure, Surin. Vlind., plate 130. 



