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towards the face. Prothorax arched, with a slight impression on each 

 side of the middle keel. Mesothorax with three slight keels. Fore wings 

 with many rosy dots, some of which are very minute; costa slightly 

 convex ; tips rectangular, but rounded ; exterior border straight ; interior 

 angle acute ; interior border tuberculate along more than half the length 

 from the base, near which it is slightly dilated. Hind wings while. 

 Length of the body 3\ lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



Amboina. 



Genus FLATA, Fabr. 



Flata teiscripta, 



Viridis, albo Jloccosa ; caput marginibus elevatis ; antenna^ tarsi et tibice 

 antiece nigra ; prothorax valde arcuatus ; al<e albcB, iridescentes ; 

 anticce subviridescentes, apud margines subtestacece, fasciis duabus 

 arcuatis parallelis subcinereis, lineis tribus nigris discalibus nigris. 



Green, thickly covered with white flock. Vertex and front elongated ; 

 their borders elevated, parallel. AntennEe, tarsi and fore tibiae black. 

 Prothorax much arched. Wings white, iridescent. Fore wings with a 

 slight green tinge, slightly testaceous along the borders, and with two 

 grayish curved parallel bands, the one marginal, the other submarginal ; 

 three black discal lines ; the fore one fonning a very obtuse angle, much 

 longer than the other two, between which and the interior border the veins 

 are black ; costa and exterior border convex ; veins numerous ; veinlets 

 rather numerous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Penang. 



Flata flaccida. 



Pallide testacea ; vertex elongatus, marginibus elevatis ; antennce nigra ; 

 thorax tricarinatus ; pedes tibiis tarsisque anterioribus piceis ; pos- 

 tic(B albce. 



Pale testaceous. Vertex elongated, narrower towards the front, with 

 elevated borders. Antennae black. Thorax with three keels. Abdomen 

 somewhat paler than the thorax. Anterior tibiae and anterior tarsi mostly 

 piceous. Fore wings with a few minute pustules ; veins very numerous, 

 especially along the margin. Hind wings white. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Hindostan. 



