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specimens inclining to chestnut. The bold markings with which 

 it is thickly covered axe deep black, and the general effect is 

 exactly that of lines traced mi a board with a red-hot iron. The 

 " poker-drawings " which were so much in vogue some twenty- 

 years ago, produced exactly the same rich tints as those of the 

 Encaustes. 



Fig. 132. — Encaustes verticalis. 

 (Yellow ami black.) 



As is often found in boldly-marked insects, the Encaustes is 

 exceedingly variable, the amount of the black markings being 

 seldom precisely alike in any two specimens, while some speci- 

 mens are very small indeed, and might be easily taken for dif- 

 ferent species. This species belongs to Java. 



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Pio. 138.— ErotyluB histrio. 

 (Yellow, black, and red. I 



the Erotylides, and is a good instance of the typical genus. 

 Both in shape and colour it differs so greatly from the preceding 



