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browu spots, between the iiiuer margiu and the uerve, or entirely 

 brown, with the exception of a space next tlie inner margin, ba.se 

 narrowly, nerve as far an the scutelhir angle, and 2 or 3 spots on the 

 nerve ; Goriuui ; anterior margin with several small brown spots 

 throughont its entire length ; disk with a broadish brown band, 

 broadest next the claval suture, more or less spotted with gray, the 

 upper edge ahnost in a line with the seutellar angle ; inner margin 

 between the band and the posterior angle with a brown streak, 

 more or less interrupted with gray spots ; within the anterior margiu, 

 at the apex, a short brown streak, and within the inner posterior 

 angle a largish brown spot, the two converging and enclosing a 

 large, pale, rhomboidal patch within the bifurcation of the 1st nerve ; 

 apex of the latter with a short brown streak ; inner angle at the 

 cuneus with a small black spot; Cuneus pale yellowish-gray or 

 grayish-yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge ; base narrowly 

 white ; apex broadly blackish, with several small gray spots ; extreme 

 apex very narrowly pale ; inner margin, near the middle, with a 

 small black spot ; Memhrane white, somewhat iridescent, with 

 numerous small blackish spots towards and at the apex, more or 

 less confluent, and forming irregular patches ; a little below the 

 apex of the ciineus, and extending to the apex of the anterior 

 margin, a black, triangular patch, generally divided by an irregular, 

 broad pale streak ; inner marginal nerve pale ; cell-nerves ; outer 

 one and apex white ; inner one black ; outer cell, towards the base 

 broadly, at the apex narrowly, black ; disk with several minute black 

 spots, more or less confluent ; inner cell black. Sternum : Jlleso- 

 steriium brownish above, sides pale, and with a comma-shaped streak 

 at the posterior margin ; Metasferiium centre frequently red. Legs 

 pale yellowish, clothed with long, somewhat erect, flue, white hairs ; 

 thighs pale at the base ; 1st and 2nd pairs with several large, some- 

 what square, brown spots along the upper and under sides ; 3rd, 

 upper and under sides spotted with brown nearly to the base ; to- 

 wards the apex brown, with a pale diagonal band before the latter, 

 and several pale spots of irregular size, somewhat confluent, and 

 giving the thighs a marbled appearance ; extreme apex pale ; tihice 

 with long, fine, pale brown, somewhat spinose hairs ; 1st and 2ud 

 pairs with 3 blackish or brownish bands, the 1st below the base ; 

 apex frequently brownish ; 3rd with 3 brown bands, the 1st at the 

 base, 2nd in the middle, and the 3rd before the apex ; the 2 latter 

 sometimes divided longitudinally, on the inside, by a pale line ; fre- 



