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11. Eterusia Elizabetha. 



Foem. Luteo-flava ; caput antice et antenna cyaneo -purpurea ; 

 thorax cyaneo bimaculatus ; pectus albidum, cyaneo macula- 

 turn ; abdomen cyaneum, fasciis albidis ; pedes nigri, coxis 

 femoribusque albido-tomentosis ; alee maculis quatuor cya- 

 neis. 



Female. Luteous yellow. Head bluish purple in front. Tips 

 of the palpi and proboscis black. Antennae bluish. purple. Thorax 

 with a blue spot on each shoulder. Pectus whitish, with blue spots. 

 Abdomen blue, with a whitish band on each segment. Legs black; 

 coxae and femora with whitish tomentum. Fore wings fringed with 

 black towards the tips, with a small blue mark at the tip of the costa, 

 and with four blue spots in the disk ; three spots form two clusters 

 which make an angle, the one with two large spots, the other with 

 two small spots. Hind wings also with four blue spots. Length of 

 the body 1\ lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



Genus 54. PSAPHIS. 



Eterusice affinis ; caput minus conicum ; antennae maris ramis 

 brevioribus ; abdomen brevius ; alae anticae plus angustatae et acu- 

 minatae ; posticae breviores et latiores. Mas. Corpus sublineare, sat 

 breve et validum. Caput antice convexum. Antennae mediocriter 

 pectinatae. Abdomen subdepressum. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus duobus apicalibus minimis. Alae angustae, sat acumi- 

 natae ; posticae rotundatae, anticis multo latiores et breviores, abdo- 

 men longe superantes, venis quatuor inferioribus valde arcuatis. 



Nearly allied to Eterusia, but the head is less conical in front, 

 the antennae of the male are less deeply pectinated, the abdomen is 

 shorter, the fore wings are narrower and more pointed, and the hind 

 wings are shorter and broader, Male. Body nearly linear, rather 

 short and stout. Head convex in front. Antennae moderately pec- 

 tinated. Abdomen rather depressed, not extending near so far as 

 the hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with two very minute 

 apical spurs. Fore wings narrow, somewhat pointed, obtusely angu- 

 lar behind ; second superior vein triramose, united with the first for 

 some space from the base ; first and second inferior veins united for 

 some space from the base. Hind wings rounded, very much broader 

 and shorter than the fore wings ; discal areolet very broad ; the four 

 inferior veins much curved. 



