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stigmata and base of the fore wing brownish yellow coloured, each 

 wing with fifteen or sixteen elongated, discoidal, oblique ordinary 

 cells, the veinlets separating them being but slightly curved. 



42. M. Javanica. Westw. Nigra, flavo-varia, faciei maculis 

 tribus, labro, fasciaque transversa occipitali flavis ; protho- 

 race flavo, lineis duabus latis dorsalibus nigris ; pedibus an- 

 ticis flavis, femoribus extus et intus striga abbreviata basali 

 nigra, alis hyalinis, stigmate sanguineo. 



Long. corp. lin. 8 ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 16. 



Habitat in insula Java. In Mus. East India House. 



Head black, with a transverse yellow fascia between the eyes on 

 the crown ; antennae black, slender, two basal joints slightly 

 marked with red beneath ; face with three spots of yellow beneath 

 the base of the antennae ; labium and palpi yellow, mandibles 

 black. Prothorax long, slender, slightly transversely rugose, 

 yellow, with two black lines down the back, leaving only a slender 

 yellow dorsal longitudinal line. Meso-thorax pale brown, the 

 anterior-lateral angles prominent and black ; both scutella yellow. 

 Abdomen pale greyish brown, with darker marks on the sides. 

 Fore legs yellow, coxae externally marked with a broadish blark 

 bar ; femora yellow outside, with a slender black mark extending 

 from near the base to the middle, interrupted in the middle ; inside 

 having a wider dark mark extending from the base to the middle, 

 where it is forked ; tibiae with the terminal half black, tarsi paler ; 

 femoral spines darker, brownish red. Four hind legs yellow, tibiae 

 dark at the base above, extremity of the ungues and pul villi black. 

 Wings colourless, veins black, except the subcostal and radial, 

 which are fulvous ; stigma dark blood red ; disc with ten longi- 

 tudinal oblique cells dependent on the ordinary radial sectors. 



43. M. lineolata. Westw. Flava, nigro-variegata, facie flava, 

 macula angulata subtus alteraque majori ad antennarum basin, 

 labro nigro, maculaque parva triangulari verticali ; prothorace 

 fere laevi elongato, strigis tribus longitudinalibus nigris ; an- 

 tennis gracilibus, nigris, alarum stigmate nigro. Tab. 1 8, fig. 4. 



Long. corp. lin. 6 ; expans alar, antic, lin. 13. 



Habitat in Nepalia (D. Hardwicke.) In Mus. Britann. 



Head yellow, with a small black diamond-shaped patch on the 

 face beneath the antennae ; labrum with a smaller black patch, a 

 larger one between and behind the base of the antennae, and a 

 smaller triangular one on the back of the crown of the head ; palpi 

 yellow ; antennae with 27 joints, slender, black, the basal joint 

 moderate sized, the 2nd small, the remainder still smaller, the two 



