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form a nearly complete oval, which is interrupted only 

 at its lower end. Legs black, the base of the femora with 

 a cuneiform yellow line externally. AbJomen black ; 

 first segment with a very small lozenge-shaped yellow 

 spot above, and a lai'ge triangular spot on each side ; the 

 rest with three yellow lines interrupted at the sutures ; the 

 dorsal one fine, almost obliterated on the sixth and seventh 

 segments, afterwards reappearing on the eighth and ninth 

 as a yellow lanceolate spot; lateral lines broader, also 

 interrupted at the sutures, and on each segment, by a fine 

 black transverse space near the anterior end, this line 

 obliterated on the seventh, being there visible only as a 

 small spot at each end, eighth and ninth with a large spot 

 at the posterior end, tenth broadly margined with yellow; 

 appendices longer than the tenth segment, acute, slightly 

 curved, denticulate externally at the apex. 



Anterior vdngs hyaline, and tinged with brownish-yel- 

 low up to the nodus, but less distinctly on the inner 

 margin. Posterior wings hyaline, strongly tinged with 

 yellowish-brown nearly up to the pterostigma, leaving 

 only the apex purely hyaline. 24-26 ante-cubital nervures, 

 28-31 post-cubital, in the anterior wings. 



Length of body, c? ? ; ? 20 lines ( = 42 mill.) . Expanse 

 of wings, S, 2 , 33 lines ( = 69 mill.). 



Hah. — Amoy, in China. 



Appears to have some affinity with E. dccorata, but 

 much larger, and the dark band of the posterior ^vings 

 much broader. Both the <S and ? above described seem 

 to be perfectly adult. 



Micromerus hisignatus, n. sp. 



Head and thorax black. Head above with four yellow 

 spots in front of the antenna), placed close together, 

 and six reddish spots on the crown (one on each of the 

 ocelli, and four placed in a row posteriorly) . Frothorax 

 margined with reddish-yellow m front, and with spots of 

 the same colour on each side. Thorax proper: above 

 ■with two narrow reddish lines on each side, and beneath 

 them, on the sides, two broad yellowish bands, the u])per 

 of which is divided transversely into two portions : breast 

 witlr a longitudinal central row of four large transverse 

 yellow spots. Legs black, the interior of the femora 

 whitish-yellow. Abdomen red, the sixth segment paler, 

 slightly greenisli, the succeeding segments deeper red ; 



