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middle band, and on each side of this a rather small yellow spot, 

 which is usually continued backwards gradually tapering, without 

 fully reaching the yellow spots which are situated in the neighbour- 

 hood of the mamillse; these indeed are surrounded by 6 (or 8) spots, 

 of which the four anterior are the largest and form a trapezium , ' 

 which is nearly double as broad behind as before: the two foremost 

 of these spots are situated quite near the hinder extremity of the 

 middle band. In E. ceropegia and E. Victoria the marking of the 

 belly is the same as in E. Armida, but the two foremost yellow 

 spots are usually united by a yellowish line or band with the two 

 spots immediately behind the posterior extremity of the middle-band, 

 so as to form a (- or [-shaped band on each side; there is fre- 

 quently (at least in my specimens of E. Victoria) found, between 

 and behind the last-mentioned spots, behind the posterior extremity 

 of the middle band, a little yellow spot. The greater (anterior) part 

 of the middle band is sometimes altogether missing, and in some 

 cases the lateral bands are broken. — The vulva does not appear to 

 me to indicate any considerable difference between E. Armida and 

 E. Victoria; the scapus is however a little longer and narrower in 

 the former than in the latter (see above, p. 25). In E. Victoria it 

 is about four times as long as it is broad at the base (from the first 

 curvature to the apex about three times as long as it is broad). In 

 E. ceropegia the scapus vulvae has the form of a broad, thick, brown, 

 almost triangular or heart-shaped lamina slightly rounded in the 

 sides and in front and about as broad at the base (i. e. where it is 

 bent backwards) as it is long; its backward directed apex is drawn 

 out into a narrow compressed point very slightly bent downwards. 



The males of E. Armida and E. Victoria are not known to me. 

 In E. ceropegia cf the tibial joint of the palpus is somewhat shorter 

 than the patellar joint: on the outer side it is dilated into a broad, 

 thick and in the outer border slightly emarginated lamina, the an- 

 terior angle of which is drawn out somewhat forward into a stout, 

 short, at the extremity somewhat rounded lobe; the posterior angle 

 is somewhat projecting, almost rectangular. The tarsal joint or la- 

 mina bulbi has at the base on the outer side a stout, forward- 

 curved, in the middle somewhat attenuated, at the apex slightly 

 dilated and rounded appendage. The bulbus presents several strong, 

 horny, lamellar processes, of which three, situated towards the outer 

 side, and directed either outwards or (when the bulbus is so turned 

 that the lamina lies on its under side) more upwards, are especially 



