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nervures are more or less clouded with brown. Wings hyaline, 

 mostly with brown nervures. Legs testaceous, end of tibiae, and 

 the tarsi mostly brown. 



Four specimens: East Coast, September, 1897, and Flying Fish 

 Cove, 1898.^ ^ 



Allied io^B. jy/c^«/a and B. j^nnotifrotis, Wlk., but with the 

 nervures running to the costa yellow and unspotted ; in the other 

 species they are brown, and terminate in brown spots on the costa. 



Stal notes'^B idis, Wlk., as ='^Ugijops, Guer. ; but as some of 

 the characters disagree, I retain Walker's name for the present. 



Family APHROPHORID^. 



^ 9. Clovia eximia, sp.n. (PI. XV, Fig. 14.) 



Exp. al. 14 mm. ; long. corp. 5 mm. 



Head and thorax black, dull above, shining beneath, upper part 

 of front with seven transverse testaceous bands, the uppermost 

 widely interrupted, and those below the second more or less 

 irregular and indented in the middle ; below them is a trace of 

 an eighth ; proboscis and a triangular spot just above its base 

 also testaceous. Vertex and thorax hardly separated, front 

 yellow, narrowly edged with black from eye to eye, and with 

 a short waved transverse black stripe in the middle. Behind this 

 is another, longer, curving from eye to eye in fi'ont, and there is 

 again a broader black band between the eyes, followed by two 

 yellow ones. The thorax may be described as black, with three 

 broad transverse yellow lines, and the scutellum is marked with 

 three yellow lines, converging behind, and joined by a yellow curve 

 in front. Sides of metathorax and extremity of the rufous-brown 

 abdomen varied with testaceous. Tegmina rufous brown, with 

 testaceous yellow markings, those towards the extremity tinged, 

 with golden. An oblique long oval spot at one- third of the 

 length of the costa, a short slightly curved spot on the costa at 

 two-thirds of its length, and three pale stripes on the lower part 

 of the hind margin. The outer portion of these is brown, but 

 does not touch the hind margin, and the two lower ones contain 

 A longitudinal brown dash on the outer part. There is a bifid 

 yellow stripe, traversing the clavus parallel with the inner margin, 

 from the base ; the outer branch is narrow ; the inner one is 

 broader, and curves up to meet a corresponding spot on the inner 

 margin of the corium. Legs testaceous, longitudinally striped 

 with brown, the hind legs darkest. 



Eleven specimens : from East Coast, September 28, and October, 

 1897 ; and I^orth Coast, January, 1898. 



liTot closely allied to any other species at present in the 

 British Museum (Natural History) ; but appears to approach 

 *^C. lemtiiscatiis, Stal, described from Java. 



