3 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Tawny. Head blackish above, and with a black mark in front. 

 Prothorax with a black middle stripe, which is dilated behind, and with two 

 black spots on each side ; the lateral angles like those of P. ocellata, which 

 this much resembles. Mesothorax with four forked black stripes. Abdo- 

 men with interrupted black bands ; tip wholly black. Fore wings tawny, 

 clouded with brown, with two pale marks on the costa, and with a row of 

 brown spots on the marginal veins. Hind wings brown, with three luteous 

 stripes, and with some lanceolate exterior streaks, which almost connect the 

 first and second stripes ; a luteous streak on the hind border. Length of 

 the body 9 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



Ceram or Amboina. 



Genus OXYPLEURA, Amyot. 



OXT PLEURA SANGUIFLUA. 



The female of this species is very different from the male, and appears 

 like a distinct species. Body black, with slight dark red bands. Meso- 

 thorax with dark red stripes. Fore wings lurid, almost black on the parts 

 which in the male are brown ; submarginal spots move numerous and dis- 

 tinct; tips and exterior border tinged with crimson. Hind wings with the 

 basal streaks crimson. 



OxYPLEURA LIMBATA. 



The male is distinguished from the female by the sides of the pro- 

 thorax, which are less dilated, form a more obtuse angle, and have not 

 black borders. 



Genus ZAMMARA, Amyot. 

 North America. 



Zammaba funesta. 



Fcem. Nigra; prothorax viltis ferrugineis vix conspicuis, laterihus sub- 

 dilatalis subangulatis ; mesothoracis latera subferruginea ; abdomen 

 subtus ferrugineum ; pedes fulvi, nigra varii ; ala vilrece, venis viri- 

 dibus apice nigris ; anticce longce angusta, guttis submarginalibus 

 nigricantibus, venis \a et 2a transversis perobliquis nigra late margi- 

 natis, 3a nigra marginala, 4a nigra guttata. 



