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and in fact are glabrous. The tarsi are very long, 

 and become gradually more slender to the tips, 

 which are furnished each with one very long and 

 slender unguis, the other being short and bifid. The 

 four terminal joints of the tarsi are almost denuded, 

 except that there exists a row of very delicate short 

 setae, and another of slender, short, incurved spi- 

 nulse. 



E. lectrix measures about three inches between 

 the tips of the wings; the ground colour of the 

 upper pair is deep black, with numerous bluish- 

 white and yellow spots, one of the latter forming a 

 broad abbreviated band near the middle, and the 

 former a curved series not far from the tip ; under 

 wings likewise deep black, the base red, and an 

 irregular macular band of the same colour towards 

 the middle, succeeded by a series of remote bluish- 

 white oval spots, nearly on a line with those of the 

 superior wings. The thorax is black, with an ob- 

 long yellow spot on each side; abdomen black, 

 annulated with red. The under side corresponds 

 in its markings to the upper. 



It has been hitherto found only in China, but 

 it is not unlikely that it likewise occurs in Eastern 

 India. 



