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5. MyYGNIMIA ANTHRACINA. B.M. 
Male. Length 13 lines.—Intensely black : the head and thorax 
clothed with black pubescence, the metathorax transversely 
sulcate; the wings have the basal half, the apical margins, and 
the inferior margin of the posterior pair, dark brown, the inter- 
vening space fusco-hyaline and covered with a fine short white 
pubescence, which in different lights exhibits different degrees 
of whiteness, having in some positions a bright silvery lustre ; 
legs elongate ; the abdomen slightly glossy and thinly coyered 
with fine short black pubescence. 
Hab. Java; Sumatra. 
6. MyGNIMIA ALBIPLAGIATA. B.M. 
Female. Length 13 lines.—Black: the head covered with 
short black pubescence and having a number of long scattered 
black haus; the anterior margin of the clypeus, the middle of 
the mandibles, the inner orbits of the eyes, and a transverse line 
in front of the anterior stemma, touching the eyes, obscurely 
rufo-testaceous. Thorax clothed with a similar pubescence to 
that on the head, and having a large kite-shaped spot of short 
snow-white pubescence on the disk; the wings dark fuscous, 
iridescent, and irregularly maculated with darker shades; legs 
elongate, the tibia, tarsi, and tips of the femora ferruginous. 
Abdomen smooth and shinmg, with a few long black hairs at 
the apex. 
Hab. Java. 
7. MYGNIMIA ATROX. B.M., 
Male. Length 6-7 lines.—Black, opake; the flagellum be- 
neath, the palpi, labrum and mandibles, ferruginous ; the tips of 
the latter black; the flagellum fuscous above. Thorax: very 
sparingly pubescent on the pro- and meta-thorax, the latter 
convex above and transversely striate ; wings very dark fuscous, 
with a coppery iridescence ; the anterior femora, the apex of the 
intermediate and posterior pairs, and the tibize and tarsi, pale 
ferruginous. Abdomen: the second and third segments having, 
particularly towards their base, a changeable iridescent pile, 
which in certain lights has a somewhat golden lustre, but very 
obscure, the apex fusco-ferruginous. 
Hab. N. China. (Coll. R. Fortune.) 
