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liind border : disk of the fore-chest with a shorl, conical, red stripe, 

 which rests on a red hand : hind-cliest red : abdomen tinged with 

 lead-colour : legs black ; thighs towards the base and hips red ; hind 

 metatarsi tawny beneath : fore-wings black, with two very broad red 

 hands, which are coiinecled along the fore border ; the lirst con. 

 necled with the base by a stripe along the fore border: hiiid-wings 

 blackish brown, paler towards the base, which is red. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



o. King George's Sound, New Holland. Presented by Captain 

 Gray. 



6. EURYMELA BASALIS. 



Lutea cyaneo varia, capite antico nigra vittalo, abdominis apice 

 nigra, pedibns nigris, femoribvs bast Inteis, alis aniicis cya- 

 neis basi fulvis ct/aneaque maculalis, alls paslicis purpurea- 

 fuscis basi limpidis. 



Luleous: head with a shorl, black stripe in front: proboscis 

 tawny, with a brown tip ; front of the fore-chest with a broad, dark 

 blue band, which is dilated on each side of the hind border : scutel- 

 lum dark blue: tip of the abdomen black: legs black; thighs 

 towards the base and hips luteous: fore-wings blue, tawny for more 

 than one-third from the base, which has a blue spot on each side : 

 hind-wings purplish brown, colourless towards the base. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



a. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



7. EUBTMELA SCFFUSA. 



Ferruginea, capite nigra bimaculato, thorace nigra trimaculata, 

 ubdomine rufa apice nigra, pedibus nigris, femaribus fulvis 

 apice nigris, tibiis paslicis basi ferrugineis, alis anticin nigri- 

 canlibus ferrugineo cinctis el ad discum maculatis, alis pasli- 

 cis fuscis. 



Ferruginous : head wi(h a pair of black spots on each side be- 

 tween the eyes, yellow, with a ferruginous stripe in front: mouth 

 tHwny, with a black tip ; scutellum with three triangular black spots 

 along the fore border : abdomen red, with a black tip, and with a 

 black spot at the base of the oviduct: legs black ; hips and thighs 

 tawny; lips of the latter black; hind shanks ferruginous towards 

 the base: fore-wings blackish, with a lawny margin, which is 

 widened on the fore border near the base, and on the hind border in 



