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border tawny, slightly elongated, much rounded. Proslernal spine long, 

 thick, rounded at the tip. Hind femora raiher longer than ihe abdomen, 

 with two broad black streaks on each side ; hind libias shorter than 

 the hind femora, their spines with black tips. Fore wings cinereous, 

 as long as the body, with an interrupted blackish discoidal slreak ; many of 

 the transverse sectors blackish-bordered. Hind wings pale cinereous; veins 

 tawny. Length of the body 11 lines; expansion of the fore wings 24 

 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



48. Caloptenus minop. 

 Mas. Fulvus, sat gracilis, sublus lutescens ; caput breve, fastigio longi- 

 conico vix hexagonali ; antenna testacecB ; prothorax sitbliliter scaber, 

 disco tricarinato fere piano, margine postico rotundato ; prosterni 

 spina albida, robusta, transversa, apice plana ; femora postica lutea, 

 abdomini cequilonga, extus fulva ; tibice postica rufce; alee anticce 

 cinerece, corpore breviores, venis discoidalibus fuscis, maculis quiuque 

 spatioque costali e venis ulbidis. 



Male. Tawny, raiher slender, pale luteous beneath. Head smooth, 

 short; lip of the verlex elongate-conical, slightly hexagonal; front thinly 

 ])unciured ; keels distinct; inner keels parallel; outer keels diverging 

 towards the face. Eyes lurid, subelliptical, much rounded on the hind 

 side. Antennae testaceous, slighlly flattened. Prothorax finely scabrous; 

 disk nearly flat, with three distinct keels; transverse impressed lines slight; 

 fore border nearly straight; sides and hind border rounded. Proslernal 

 spine whiiish, siout, about twice as broad as thick, not decreasing towards 

 its tip, which is flat. Abdomen luleous. Hind femora as long as the 

 abdomen, luteous except on the outer side; bind tibiae red, somewhat 

 shorter than the hind femora, their spines with black tips. Fore wings 

 cinereous, rather shorter than the body; veins in the disk mostly brown ; 

 live spots in the disk and space along the costa with whitish veins. Hind 

 wings pellucid ; veins white, black towards the tips. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 

 a. S.Africa. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



A9. Caloptenus sthenuus. 



Fcem. Testaceus, robustus ; caput et prothorax scabra ; caput breve, vertice 

 postico lavi, fastigio subhexagonali ; prothorax breviusculus, margine 

 postico valde rotundato ; prosterni spina robusta, conica, longitiscula, 

 subcompressa ; femora postica abdomini cequilonga ; alte anticcB 

 corpori <equilongce, apices verstis pallide cinerece, costa basi rotundata. 



Female. Testaceous, stout. Head smooth, short ; tip of the vertex 

 scabrous, subhexagonal, slighlly transverse; front scabrous; keels well 

 defined ; inner keels parallel ; outer keels diverging towards the face. 

 Eyes ferruginous, elliptical. Prothorax scabrous, rather short, with a slight 

 dorsal keel and wilh no lateral keels; transverse impressed lines distinct; 

 fore border and sides very slightly rounded ; hind border much rounded. 

 Proslernal spine slout, conical, rather long, slightly compressed. Hind 

 femora as long as the abdomen ; hind tibiae rather shorter than the 

 hind femora, iheir spines wilh black tips. Fore wings as long as the body. 



