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Male. Blackish blue. Antennae black. Thorax with a silvery 

 patch on each side in front ; scutellum silvery white. Abdomen 

 with a black apical tuft ; lateral tufts ochraceous ; tip beneath pale 

 gilded. Legs cupreous. Fore wings black, with numerous chaly- 

 beous dots ; under side metallic-blue, partly green. Hind wings 

 vitreous, broadly bordered with black. Length of the body 10 lines ; 

 of the wings 16 lines. 



Aru. In Mr. Saunders* collection. 



Fam. HEPIALID^, C. L. H. vii. 1548. 

 Genus HEPIALUS, C. L. H. vii. 1550. 

 Hepialus amasinus. 

 amasiuus, H.-Sch. Eur. Schm. vi. 39, f. 4. 



Hepialus nubifer. 

 nubifer, Ld. Z. B. V. 1858, 12, pi. 2, f. 1. 

 Siberia. 



Hepialus macilentus. 

 macilentus, Ev. Bull Mosc. 1851, 626. 



Hepialus hyperboreus. 

 Epialus hyperboreus, Mschlr. Wien. Eat. Mon. vi. 129, pi. 1, f. 1 

 Labrador. 



Hepialus variabilis. 

 variabilis, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Sci. Si. Pet. iii. 563. 

 Amoor Eegion. 



Hepialus pretiosus. 

 pretiosus, H.-Sch. Lep. Exot. pi. 88, f. 505. 

 Brazil. 



Hepialus antarcticus. 

 antarcticus, Wien. EnU Mon. iv. 43. 

 Caffraria. 



