e; the legs simple; the posterior
tibiae villose within; the wings very dark brown, with a splendid violet
and blue iridescence.

_Male._ Very closely resembling the female, but rather smaller; the
anterior and intermediate femora more incrassate, and all the femora
with a simple row of teeth or serrations on their inferior margins.

_Hab._ Aru.

Although this species of _Macromeris_ is very similar in colour to the
_M. violacea_ of St.-Fargeau, the femora are not so thick as in that
species, not in fact much more so than in the female; and the row of
teeth beneath is a strong specific character.

Gen. SALIUS, _Fabr._

1. SALIUS MALIGNUS. _S._ niger, pube cinerea sericea vestitus; alis
fuscis, albo fasciatis.

_Female._ Length 9 lines. Black, and covered with a fine thin ashy pile;
the scape in front, and the anterior margin of the clypeus narrowly,
obscure yellow; the mandibles ferruginous at their apex, which has a
single notch; the palpi pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax: the prothorax with
a slightly interrupted narrow fascia a little before its posterior
margin, and the scutellum, yellow; the anterior femora broadly dilated,
and, as well as the anterior tibiae, ferruginous within; the intermediate
tibiae ferruginous at their apex in front, and the posterior pair with a
yellowish-white spot at their base outside; the calcaria pale
testaceous, the claws ferruginous, the anterior tarsi entirely so, but
more or less obscure; the posterior tibiae slightly spinose; the anterior
wings brown, with a white fascia crossing at the first discoidal cell,
and a second at the apex of the third submarginal, the extreme base and
the anterior margin of the externo-medial cell hyaline. Abdomen: the
apical margins of the segments with a little bright silvery pile.

_Hab._ Aru.

Gen. MYGNIMIA, _Smith_.

1. MYGNIMIA ASPASIA. _M._ caeruleo-nigra; capite thoraceque pube
holosericea vestitis; alis fulvo-hyalinis; abdomine pilis iridescentibus
vestito.

_Female._ Length 14 lines. Black, with shades of blue in certain lights;
the abdomen with bright tints of blue and violet, caused by fine
iridescent changeable pile; the legs have a similar pile, very bright on
the femora within; the head and thorax with a short black velvety
pubescence; the wings flavo-hyaline; the nervures pale ferruginous; the
extreme base of the wings blackish, their apical margins with a narrow
fuscous border. The legs spinose; the posterior tibiae with a double