200 Dr. L. Melichar. 



Body luteous; head conical above, having on each side a ridge, which is most 

 elevated and partly black between the eyes; a black spot at the tip on the under side, 

 whose side borders are slightly contracted in the fore part, but much widened towards 

 the epistoma, the latter is very slightly keeled, and has a row of oblique furrows on 

 each side; month tawny, extending far beyond the hind-hips; feelers luteous, rather 

 long; second Joint much longer than the first; fore-chest almost quadrate, hardly convex 

 in front nor concave behind, with a small triangulär black spot on the fore border, and 

 a black spot on each side; middle-chest adorned in front with black marks, some of 

 wich form two oblique stripes united in front; abdom nearly elliptical, a little longer 

 and broader than the ehest; legs tawny, rather broad, slightly grooved; hind-shanks 

 armed with one black-tipped spine besides those at the tip, wings broad; fore wings 

 colourless, powdered with white beneath, marked with black and slightly tuberculate 

 here and there above; disks of the areolet so covered with luteous dots as to give the 

 whole wing that colour; veins luteous; cross-veins very numerous towards the tip and 

 along the fore border, where the wing is convex and much widened, and slightly 

 waved; bind wings white; veins dull tawny. 



Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings i6 lines. 



Patria ignota. 



^3. Atracis? fasciata Walk. 



Flatoides fasciatus Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., X, p. 141, 162 (1870). 



cf. Testaceus, fronte tricarinata, facie non carinata; prothorace et mesothorace 

 bicarinatis, aus anticis tuberculatis fascia antemedia lineisque duabus postmediis trans- 

 versis arcuatis punctularibus ferrugineis venis transversis plurimis venis marginalibus 

 non furcatis, alis posticis cinereis. 



Testaceous, paler beneath. Head with prominent borders; vertex short; front 

 rather longer than broad, narrower towards the face, with three abbreviated keels, the 

 keel on each side very slight; face not keeled. Prothorax much arched, hiding part of 

 the Vertex, with two slight approximate keels. Mesothorax with two keels, wich con- 

 verge hindward. Forewings tuberculate at the base and along the costa; two larger 

 tubercles, one in the disk near the base, the other on the interior border; an irregulär 

 antemedial ferrugineous band and two postmedial transverse curved lines of ferrugi- 

 neous points; transverse veins numerous, irregulär; costal transverse veins rather irre- 

 gulär, some of them forked; marginal veins not forked. Hind wings cinereous, with an 

 incomplete line of transverse veins. 



Length of the 4 lines, of the wings lo lines. 



Waigion. 



Subgen. Flatoides Stäl. 

 I. Flatoides Signoreti n. sp. 



Taf. VIII, Fig. 4. 



Kopf dreimal so lang wie zwischen den Augen breit, die spitzwinkeligen Schläfen- 

 ecken zahnförmig vorspringend. Der Scheitel flach vertieft, querrunzelig, im Nacken 

 eine nach hinten winkelig gebrochene Quei'leiste. An den Seiten des Kopfes ein brauner 

 Längsstreifen. Stirne länglich, schwach gewölbt und glatt. Pronotum an den Seiten 

 schwarz gefleckt, in der Mitte zwei braune Punkte. Schildchen mit schwielenartigen 

 Kielen, von welchen die seitlichen Kiele, welche die abgeplattete Scheibe begrenzen, 

 deutlicher hervortreten. Das Schildchen ist nach aussen von den Seitenkielen schwarz 



