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Female very similar, the abdomen being stouter and more flattened laterally 

 and the yellow rings rather broader. 



At the base of the hindwing, between the costa and the submedian nervure, a 

 brownish ray, extending as far out as the 1st antenodal nervure. The outer 

 fifth of the wings is usually clouded with a dirty yellow or pale brown. 



The 3 last abdominal segments black, the 8th with a small transverse, basal 

 spot of yellow on each side of the dorsal carina. 



" Burmeister's type is from Madras and is of rather larger dimensions than 

 those given above. The thorax is described as having 6 yellow bands but he 

 may have supposed that 2 had faded from postmortem decomposition, as Hagen 

 describes it as having only 4 bands — Selys." 



In my specimens from Poona, there are certainly only the 2 antehumeral and 

 the 2 lateral bands and as these are fresh specimens, Selys was certainly correct 

 in his conjecture. In the male, the upper part of the front of thorax and the 

 brown part of the sides less so, are a fine, metallic green. The costa is finely 

 yellow on the superior surface only, and as far out as the stigma, which is deep 

 brown, almost black. The upper part of frons and the vesicle are metallic green, 

 with a bright yellow spot just in front of the vesicle. The neuration of the wing& 

 is similar to E. vittigera, Ramb., from Java and Borneo and doubtfully, Assam. 

 The yellow annules on the abdomen diiffer somewhat as follows : — that on the- 

 3rd occupies its middle third, on the 4th, 5th and 6th nearly as much as the basal 

 half but the apical border of the rings is much clearer cut than the basal, which 

 is diffuse, the annule on the 7th occupies the basal third and on the 8th and 9th,. 

 obscurelj^ the greater part of dorsum. 



Female similar but the facial markings more obscure and the rings on the- 

 abdomen much broader of which the ground colour is pale ochreous brown. In 

 old specimens the greater part of the wings is sufEused with a dirty yellow, 

 rather patchy in its distribution. 



" Selys : E. vittata, vittigera, frontalis, cyanocephala and australis are all 

 closely alhed and may perhaps all be local races of a common species." 



4. Epophthalmia vittigera, Ramb., Neuropt., 1842. 

 Selys. loc. cit. 

 Martin, loc. cit. 

 Macromia vittigera, Ramb., 1842. 



Abd., male 50-53 mm., female 57-60. Hindwing, male 48-51 mm., female- 

 51-54 mm. 



Wings hyaline (in the male, a pale yellow tinting at the anal angle of forewing,. 

 but occupjdng in the hindwing, the entire space between the costa a-nd medium 

 as far out as the 1st antenodal nervure. In the female, the brown marking more 

 distinct in the forewing and extending outwards as far as the 5th antenodal ner- 

 vure in the hindwing. The apical fifth of the wings suffused ^dth a dirty yellow 

 or ochreous). 



Membrane grey, darker against the anal border ; stigma brownish black,, 

 covering 1^-2 cells, length 3 mm. ; in the forewing, 15-20 antenodal nervures, 

 7-8 postnodals, hypertrigone traversed 3 or 4 times, 5-7 cubital nervures, dis- 

 coidal field commencing with a single row of 3 cells and then continued as 2 rows 

 of cells. Reticulation black ; costa yellow as far out as node. 



Body colouring brownish black varied with yellow markings as follows : — 

 Labium, labrum and face a russet brown with a transverse, sinuous, yellow basal 

 fine intexTupted in the middle on the epistome and a lateral spot on the nose.. 

 Upper part of frons steely metallic blue (in the teneral female, a median, basal 

 yellow spot in front of vesicle as in vittata from Poona, and on each side, against 

 the eyes, a pale yellow spot). 



Thorax brownish black with a bluish, metallic reflection. The antealar sinus 

 in front, a narrow, antehumeral stripe on each side and a narrow, median stripe 

 on the sides which goes over the tergum, as in vittata, yellow. 



