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MR. F. P. LAIDLAW ON 



CCELICCIA NIGROHAMATA, Sp. n. (Text-figS. 7, 8.) 



6' cJ 6 . Mt. Merinjak, Borneo, 21-28. v. 14. 



Length of abdomen 38 mm., of hind wing 24 mm. 



M 3 rises from subnodus, Rs a little distal. Three cells between 

 quadrilateral and subnodus. Costal margin of quadrilateral 

 about two-thirds the length of anal margin in fore wing ; four- 

 fifths in hind wing. Postnodals 17-18. 



Pterostigma black, covering 1^-2 cells. (Text-fig. 7.) 



Head : Upper surfaces black, except for a pair of yellow marks 

 on the genaa, and a pair of minute yellow spots on the vertex on 

 either side of the hinder ocelli. 



Prothorax black, with lateral and ventral parts yellow. 



Text-figure 7. 



Wings of Coeliccia nigrohamata Laidlaw, $ . Type. 



Thorax : Dorsum bronze-black ; on either side of the mid- 

 dorsal carina are two silver-blue spots, the lower large and 

 elliptical, the upper small and linear. The black colour extends 

 to the level of the first lateral suture, beyond this as far as the 

 second lateral suture the side of the thorax is of a dull purple- 

 blue colour. Below this the thorax is yellowish white, delimited, 

 by a black line along the second lateral suture. 



Legs yellowish brown ; the articulations and spines black, as 

 are a line on the posterior surface of the femora and on the 

 anterior surface of the tibiae. 



Abdomen : Segments 1-7 black, 1 with yellow on the sides ; 

 segment 8 is black dorsally and blue below; segments 9 and 10 

 are blue. 



Anal appendages black ; the upper pair shorter than the lower 

 pair, obliquely truncate, with two internal ventral teeth on each. 

 Lower pair slender, incurved, pincer-like (see text-fig. 8). 



Type S in the British Museum. 



