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62. Phytomia aurigera, sp. n. 
3. Length of body 16 mm. 
A Hanulenrne species, very like the preceding, but easily distin- 
guishable owing to the presence of four broad spots of golden 
tomentum near the end of the abdomen, which also bears a golden 
fringe on the sides. 
1 “originally believed that this species was the undescribed male 
of Ph. bullata, but after correspondence with Dr. Speiser and 
Prof. Sjéstedt, I have come to the conclusion that this cannot be 
so. With reference to the males of Ph. bullata in the Stockholm 
Museum, Prof. Sjéstedt wrote: “there are no large spots of golden 
tomentum on the posterior segments; isolated yellow hairs are 
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Big. 18.—Phytomia aurigera, sp.n. od. X 3. 
certainly present here as elsewhere, but there are no definite spots.” 
1 therefore describe the species as new, but it seems singular that 
in the collection there are only 2 Q of bullata and only ¢ ¢ of 
aurigera, while the localities of both are not far apart. 
In the nearly allied Oriental Ph. chrysopyga, Wied., both sexes 
have a gilded abdomen, therefore it is perhaps probable that the 
female of aur igera also possesses golden patches on the abdomen. 
Head and its appendages exactly as in bullata; the antennie 
are even smaller, the third joint being almost Smrauilihe « the eves 
are in contact for a very long distance, which is more than double 
the length of the vertical triangle ; the facets of the upper half 
of the eyes are of a reddish colour, and much larger than the 
inferior ones, which are also dark-coloured and shrota three hori- 
zontal dark bands (in the female of bud/ata at least four such 
