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WARO NAKAIIARA: 



identified with tuberculatus, since Japanese and Formosan specimens 

 just mentioned agree well with his description of modestus. 



The tubercle on wing, which has often been considered to be 

 peculiar to the male, is in fact present in both sexes, and shows no 

 difference in the different sex. 



Spilosmylus nikko'ènsis (Navâs). 



Lysmus nikkocnsìs Navâs, Rev. Russ. d'Entom., vi, p. 113, fig. 3 

 (1911). 



Head fuscous black, with two large yellow spots in hind marginal 

 area ; ocelli yellow, margined with the same color ; clypeus entirely 

 yellow ; antennae yellow with long hairs, a few basal joints darkish, 

 the 3rd joint longer than the 2nd. 



Prothorax yellowish with a longitudinal fuscous line, which is 

 occasionally nearly interrupted in the middle, and with two spots on 

 both sides of the line, but these markings vary to a certain extent in 

 different specimens ; both sides of prothorax beset with long, pale 

 testaceous hairs. 



Meso- and metathorax also yellowish ; praescutum of the former 

 with a median blackish line and two black spots on anterior margin ; 

 scutum also with two spots on both sides anteriorly ; irregular median 

 line present on scutellum. 



Abdomen brown above, with a few pale hairs ; ventral side 

 yellowish ; boat-shaped genital appendage of females dark yellow. 



Legs pale yellow, with end of hind-femora fuscous ; claws com- 

 monly with teeth, but often without them, testaceous, strongly curved. 



Forewing not very broad, subacute at apex, inner marginal and 

 apical areas slightly clouded with grey ; pterostigma yellowish with 

 brown veinlets on both sides ; neuration mostly fuscous ; subcosta and 

 radius yellowish, interrupted several times with fuscous spaces ; most 

 cross-veins margined with dark brown, forming some small spots at 

 base and at middle as well as beyond middle of the wing. 



