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apical area is irrorated with brown ; the ciha of the wings are 

 bright ferruginous towards the wing, brown externally ; the coxae 

 and under side of the abdomen are bright red ; the femora and 

 tarsi ferruginous ; the tarsi brown. 



There is but a single specimen of this insect. There is no de- 

 scribed species with which I can possibly conipare it. 



Genus (Ecophora, Zeller. 



Sp. 1. (Ecophura Marionella, Newman. (PI. XVIII. fig. 7.) 



Alts anticts nigricantihus, utriusqiie maculis octo dijformibus albis, 

 posticis Jlavis, marginibus nigricantibiis ; capile, pronoto, meta- 

 notoqiie Jlavis, mesonoto n'/gricant'i ; abdomhic nigricanti cingulis 

 apiceque aurantiacis. (Alarum dilat. 'S — ] unc.) 



Head and pronotura yellow ; antennae brown ; labiil palpi 

 very long, the second joint yellow above, black beneath, the apical 

 joint entirely black ; mesonotum black ; tippets black at the base, 

 yellow at the apex ; metanotum yellow ; abdomen black, with 

 golden bands and apex ; fore wings black, with eight pure white 

 markings ; the first of these is elongate, situate on the costa at its 

 base, — the second is discoidal, somewhat deltoid, and equidistant 

 from the costa and inner margin, — the third is discoidal, situate 

 almost in the middle of the wing as regards its length, but much 

 nearer the costal than the inner margin, it is slightly the largest 

 of the eight, — the fourth is below this, longitudinally lengthened 

 and the smallest of the eight, — the fifth is discoidal, transversely 

 lengthened and placed nearer the inner margin than the costa, — 

 the sixth is also transversely lengthened and reaches from near 

 the sixth obliquely to the costa, — the seventh is transversely long 

 and narrow, it is below the sixth and touches the anal angle of the 

 wing, — the eighth is on the basal portion of the cilia, lengthened 

 transversely and situate at the apex of the wing; with the excep- 

 tion of this mark the cilia are brown ; hind wings with the disk 

 yellow, the margins broadly tinged with brown, the cilia paler : 

 beneath, fore wings brown, with two oblique testaceous obscure 

 costal markings, cilia pale ; hind wings dull yellow, with a central 

 marking, the extreme apex and the posterior margin brown, cilia 

 pale. 



Four specimens were taken. It is a beautiful and very con- 

 spicuous insect, and not nearly allied to any known species. 



