ON THE HEME ROBI I X A E OF JAPAN. 



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Gifu, one female specimen and two male specimens, Mr. S. Yamamura 



coll. 



Remark : This species is closely allied to M. variegatus Fab. of 

 Europe, but can be distinguished from that species by markings on body 

 and wings, size, etc. 



Micr omits novitius Navâs. 



(Pl. I, fig- 4). 



Murmur; novitius Navâs, Rev. Russ. d'Entom., ix, p, 397 (1910). 



Head yellowish with fuscous spots behind eyes and an arcuate fuscous 

 mark before antenna ; face yellow with two blackish spots on each side, 

 more or less suffused with darkish on clypeus ; palpi testaceous yellow, 

 apical joint of maxillary palpus strongly suffused with fuscous ; antennae 

 fuscous, yellowish in basal half. 



Prothorax yellowish, with four indistinct fuscous spots above ; lateral 

 sides somewhat fuscous. Meso- and metathorax yellowish with a broad 

 fuscous fascia on each side. 



Legs yellowish ; tibiae fusiform ; anterior tibia with a slight darkish 

 mark near end ; apical joint of tarsi darkish ; spurs on tibia very short ; 

 claws testaceous, short, strongly curved. 



Forewing elongate and very narrow ; hind marginal area slightly 

 tinged with fuscous ; neuration mostly pale yellow, spotted and striped with 

 fuscous ; costa and subcosta nearly entirely pale yellow ; costal crossveins 

 pale yellow and mostly forked, but a few of those in basal part of costal area 

 simple ; four radial sectors, most of which are forked before outer gradate 

 series ; median and cubitus fused together for a considerable distance. 



Hindwing hyaline and colorless, with neuration nearly entirely pale 

 yellow ; gradate series of crossveins blackish ; lower branch of media runs 

 into cubitus. 



Abdomen testaceous, occasionally strongly suffused with yellowish ; 

 dorsal plate of the male short, subquadrate ; ventral appendage, from which 

 two small ovate apparatus arise, rounded and covered with yellowish hairs. 



