Colonel C. Swinlioe on new ILlerocera. 49 



roflocted, dcMise^ly punctate; anteriorly the pnnctiires arc 

 irregular, j)r()(lucin;4 a reticulate appeiir.incc ; a few irre;^ul.ir 

 smooth spares ou all the thoracic tcrgitcs ; thorax bc;ucath 

 black, shilling. Ahdomeii with large shallow punctures 

 above; lateral margins of fifth and sixth segments slightly 

 sinuate, four or five punctures in the sulci of third to sixtli 

 segments ; snpra-anid lamina (piadrate, slightly concave, 

 angles rounded ; abdomen beneath leneous, densely ])iinctate, 

 lateral smooth stigmata on each segment ; subgcnital lamina 

 ample, sinuate, striato-puuctate. Cerci rufous. Coxic, apiec3 

 of femora, tibiie, and tarsi rufo-tcstaccous ; femora castancous. 



Total length ;2.'3 mm. ; jironotum 78 mm. x 1 l- mm. 



Tuyen-Ciuan, Central Tonkin [A. IVeiss, 1901) ; a long 

 series of specimens in all stages of growth (Paris Museum). 



This is one of the most brilliantly-coloured cockroaciies 

 known to science ; its colour is reminiscent of the gorgeous 

 metallic-green Cetouiid beetles of the Eastern Tropics. 



III. — yew E'tstern, Australian, and African Ifeferocera. 

 By Colonel C. SwiNUOE, M.A.,' F.L.S., &c. 



Family BombycidsB. 



Andraca apodectaj no v. 



(J ? . Of a uniform ochreous-fawn colour, the male slightlv 

 suffused with brownish and darker than the females ; shafts 

 of the antenna) dark brown above, white at the sides, pectina- 

 tions of the male brown ; some whitish suffusion along the 

 outer portions of the costa in the male, not present in the 

 females: fore wings with three transverse indistinct grey- 

 lines or thin bands — antomedial, medial, and discal, the two 

 former sinuous, the latter deeply angled outwardly below the 

 costa : hind wings with two medial hues and with the ground- 

 colour of the wings paling towards the costa: the hairs on the 

 abdominal margin dark brown, this margin curved inwards 

 but without any excision. Underside paler, lines as abjve. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ^uv ? ^i"\, inches. 



Padang, W. Sumatra ; one male, two temales. 



The fore wings are not so produced as in tlie type species 

 of the genus, bipunctata, Walker, from India, and it is 

 without the excision of the abdominal margin of the hind 

 wing as iu that species, but it has every other character of 

 the genus. 



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