152 . Chridmas Island. • 



'^^ Female. — Reddisli brown, inclining to black on the npper part 

 of the head and thorax ; antennge black (including the two basal 

 joints), and pitchy towards the extremity ; face reddish. The 

 frontal concavity is black on the sides, but is filled up with 

 yellow, which forms the front of a broad yellow stripe which 

 runs to the extremity of the prothorax, of which the borders, 

 and especially the lower hinder angles, are more or less yellow; 

 the borders of this streak above, the facial carinse, and a stripe 

 under each eye are darker than the surrounding parts. Four 

 front legs dirty green, varied with yellow ; the arolia reddish ; 

 middle femora with a double row of yellow spots on the outside. 

 Hind femora brown above and reddish beneath, with two blackish 

 transverse bands above ; the space between the lateral carinje with 

 oblique or oval whitish or pale-yellow marks, and a continuous 

 yellow stripe on the under- surface. Hind tibise black above, with 

 a yellow spot at the base, and brownish yellow beneath ; spines 

 yellow, tipped with black. Hind tarsi reddish, with a black carina 

 above ; tegmina brown, the interspaces more hyaline towards the 

 tips. Wings as in the male. 



"Allied to C. melanocerus, Serv. (niffricorne, Burm.), from Java 

 and Malacca. 



"I should not have ventured to place these insects together but 

 for a memorandum which accompanied them, stating that they 

 were found in coitu by Lieutenant Eichardson near the shore of 

 Christmas Island on October 1, 1887. Another specimen of the 

 male was met with on October 2 at Flying Fish Cove." 



Besides the above specimens contained in Mr. Lister's collection, 

 I am now inclined to refer the insect which I formerly regarded as 

 possibly C. fimlinea, Wlk., to C. disparilis. 



Four specimens, one marked Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897, 

 and another, December, 1897, were in Mr. Andrews' collection, as 

 well as two dark female specimens, with the pale band on the 

 pronotum entirely absent. They may represent a variety of this 

 species, but do not appear to be specifically distinct. 



23. Epacromia rufostriata. (PI. XIIl, Fig. 2.) 



Epaeromia rufostriata, Kirb. : P.Z.S., 1888, p. 550. 



" Exp. al. $ 43 mm., 9 40 mm. ; long. corp. $ 20 mm., 9 22 mm. 



'^ Male. — Testaceous, speckled with reddish and black; a small 

 black spot beneath each eye ; a black stripe (bordered above by 

 a pale line, and sufPused below) runs behind each eye to the 

 extremity of the pronotum ; it is intersected at the third groove 

 of the pronotum by the pale line which runs below instead of 

 above the hinder part of the black stripe, which is conical and 

 more sharply defined than the rest ; hind femora on the inside 

 black for half their length, followed by a long black spot ; the 

 inside sutures of the knees are also black, hind tibite beneath black 



