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CATALOG UK OF 



Female. Tawny, with the usual structure. Head smooth, pale testa- 

 ceous, with seven brownish stiipes aliove ; middle stripe conical, very 

 broad; inner and outer pair l)road; middle pair slender; fore part 

 yellow; front almost smooth, with five irregular tawny stripes. Prutlmrax 

 tuherculate, with two irregular brown stripes and with two strongly 

 impressed transverse lines. Oviduct almost straight, black towards the lip, 

 as long as the abdomen. Legs stout ; spines with black lips; bind femora 

 a little less than live-eighths of the length of the fore wings. Fore wings 

 narrow, cinereous, longer by three lines than the hind wings, with many 

 irregular brown spots; areoleis large; veins testaceous; reticidalion 

 whiiish. Hind wings dark cinereous; longitudinal veins feiruginous; 

 transverse veins paler. Length of the body 21 lines; expansion of the 

 lore wings 52 lines. 



The fore wings are broader at the tips than those of M. subnotalus, 

 and the transveise veins towards the exterior border of the hind wings are 

 much more numerous. 



30. Meeoncidius submarginatus. 



Foem. Testaceus; caput nigrn trilinealum, fronte clypenqiie viridibiif; 

 oculi nigro conspersi ; antenna rufescentes ; prothorax tubnrculaius, 

 nigrn marginatus ; ovidiictus apicem versus niger ; pedes nigro- 

 spinosi ; al(e anticcB angusttc ; ala; posticcB nigricanle cinerccc,fusco 

 venoscc. 



Female. Testaceous. Head with three very irregular black longi- 

 tudinal lines on the vertex; keel black; front and clypeus green, thinly 

 ))nnclured. Eyes speckled with black. Antennte reddish, testaceous at the 

 base. Prothorax luberculaie, with two strongly impressed transverse Hues 

 and with a slight abbreviaied longitudinal impressed line; fore border and 

 hind border black. Oviduct hardly cuived, black towards the tip, as long 

 as the abdomen. Legs moderately stout ; spines black ; hind femora five- 

 ninths of the length "f the tore wings. Fore wings narrow, louger by one 

 line and a half than the hind wings; areolets large, mostly regular ; scapular 

 vein parallel and approximate to the externo-medial till near the lip, where 

 they diverge. Hind wings blackish cinereous; veins brown. Length of 

 the body 15 lines; expansion of the fore wings 38 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Sir E. Home. 



dl. iVlEUONCIDlL'S MARGINATUS. 



. Fiilvus ; capul anlice albidum ; aniennce fuscte, tesfaceo annu- 

 lul(e ; prothorax siibtililer rugulosus ; oriductus niger, hasi testaceus ; 

 uedes leslacei ; alec anlicce vitta poslica fusca testaceo maculala ; alee 



31. Meuoncidil's marginatus. 



Foe in. 



lult. 



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postica; cinerea. 



Feuxalt. Tawny. Fore part of the head whitish. Eyes brown, round, 

 ]n'oniinent. Antenna; brown, with numerous testaceous rings. Prothorax 

 linely rugulose, with two transverse impressed lines. Oviduct black, testa- 

 ceous towards the base, almost straight, rather longer than the abdomen. 

 Legs testaceous, moderately stout; spines with black tips; hind femora 

 about five-eigiitbs of the length of the fore wings. Fore wings with a 

 brown stripe along the interior border, interrupted by pale testaceous sj)ots ; 



