33. HYLOTOMA. 73 



specimen the second submarginal nervule is absent on one side, thus 

 throwing the second and third submarginal cells into one. 



Hab. North India. 



a. 2 • (Type of species.) Nepaul. Gen. Hardwicke. 



b. 2 . North India. Capt. Reid. 



82. Hylotoma victorina. 

 " (Plate Y. figs. 5 & 8.) 



Exp. al. 7 lin., long. corp. 3 lin. 



Head, thorax, pectus, and legs smooth, shining steel-blue ; an- 

 tennas black, rather long and thick, clothed with very short pubes- 

 cence. Abdomen more or less violet-brown above ; sides, extremity 

 and undersurface yellow. Wings fusco-hyaline with a violet irides- 

 cence. In the female, the abdomen is yellow, with only the first 

 two, three, or four segments violaceous on the back. 



The most strongly-marked male, in which the abdomen is wholly 

 violet-brown above, except at the sides and extremity, is from Hong 

 Kong. This insect is smaller and darker than E. xanthogaster, but 

 may not be truly distinct. 



Hab. China. 



a-d. d$.l/ Tmfl , . \ Foo-Chow-Foo. G. T. Lay, Esq. 

 ',/■ 6 2- 1 (JVQS ° PeCleS ° Hong Kong. J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



83. Hylotoma lutea. 



(Plate V. figs. 4 & 6.) 



Hylotoma lutea, Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 459. 



Exp. al. 7-8 lin., long. corp. 3|-4 lin. 



Dark luteous ; abdomen paler, and marked with a row of purplish- 

 black spots divided in the middle (absent in the male). Head, 

 antennas, and legs blue -black, four hind femora more or less luteous 

 at the base; a blackish-purple spot on each side of the meso- 

 thorax, between the wings ; metathorax blackish purple above. 

 Wings dusky hyaline, with piceous nervures; costa and stigma 

 black. 



Hob. North India. 



a, b. J 2 • (Types of species.) North India. Capt. Reid. 



84. Hylotoma bipunctata. 



(Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Hylotoma bipunctata, Cameron, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 90. 



Exp. al. 4 lin., long. corp. 9 lin. 



Closely allied to H. lutea, from which it chiefly differs by the four 

 hind femora being much more distinctly luteous, and the dark 



