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Rh The specimen we have here the pleasure of figuring is unique. It was recently brought from the Assam territories, and is one of the numerous rarities in the Rev. F. W. Hope's collection.

ETERUSIA TRICOLOR. PLATE III. Fig. 1.

Hope, Linnæan Trans., vol. xviii. pl. 31, fig. 4. and the two following insects we place together, because they present several points in common, although there remains, notwithstanding, considerable diversity among them. For accurate descriptions of the two first, we are indebted to Mr. Hope, in the work above cited, who refers them, with doubt, to the family Zygenidæ. Nothing, indeed, can be more uncertain, in the present state of our knowledge, than their true relations; and these we are not likely to be in a condition to determine, till we become acquainted with the metamorphoses and general history of the group. As far as we are acquainted with their geographical distribution, they seem confined to Eastern India, most of them being from Assam. Eterusia is characterised as a genus