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Rh and in fact are glabrous. The tarsi are very long, and become gradually more slender to the tips, which are furnished each with one very long and slender unguis, the other being short and bifid. The four terminal joints of the tarsi are almost denuded, except that there exists a row of very delicate short setæ, and another of slender, short, incurved spinulæ. E. lectrix measures about three inches between the tips of the wings; the ground colour of the upper pair is deep black, with numerous bluish-white and yellow spots, one of the latter forming a broad abbreviated band near the middle, and the former a curved series not far from the tip; under wings likewise deep black, the base red, and an irregular macular band of the same colour towards the middle, succeeded by a series of remote bluish-white oval spots, nearly on a line with those of the superior wings. The thorax is black, with an oblong yellow spot on each side; abdomen black, annulated with red. The under side corresponds in its markings to the upper. It has been hitherto found only in China, but it is not unlikely that it likewise occurs in Eastern India.