770 CATALOGUE OF 



with a slrongly-inarked keel; two blackish stripes on each side, each 

 including an oblique yellow streak, each inner stripe also including an 

 anterior oblique yellow streak, these four streaks converging in the disk; 

 hind border elongated, forming a rounded angle. Hind femora with two 

 brown patches on each side. Hind tibia red, with a whitish baud near the 

 base, their spines with black tips. Fore wings pale cinereous, with an 

 abbreviated very broad brown stripe which joins the costa and includes two 

 pellucid transverse patches with white veins ; a pale brown subapical 

 patch; costa very slightly rounded near the base. Hind wings pellucid, 

 with two interrupted brown bands, the second apical ; veins pale yellow, 

 black iu the exterior part. Length of the body 9 — lOJ lines; expansion of 

 the fore wings 19 — 22 lines. 



a — e. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 /. Cape. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



9. Epacromia? prasina. 



Foem. Viridis ; caput et prothorax albido univiltala ; caput hreviiis- 

 culum, fastigio conico, sulcis lateralibus linearibus ; prothorax nigra 

 bivittatnit, testaceo biplagiatus, margine postico producto angulato ; 

 femora postica intus nigra notata ; tibice posticcE pallide testacece, 

 ■tiigricanle bifascialce ; alee antica; cinerecc, striga costali basuli viridi, 

 villa nigricanle plagas duas sordide albidas includente ; alee posticce 

 pallide cinerecB, 



Female. Grass-green, testaceous beneath. Head and prothorax with 

 a whitish stripe. Head rather short; tip of the front depressed, conical ; 

 lateral furrows linear ; front hardly oblique, with four diverging keels ; inner 

 keels more strongly marked than the outer pair, forming the usual ridge 

 between the sockets of the antennfe. Antenna; tawny, flattened. Pro- 

 thorax with two black stripes and with three slight keels; lateral keels 

 intersecting the black stripes, unusually approximating and angular in the 

 middle ; a testaceous transverse patch on each side ; hind border elongated, 

 angular. Pectus with a green oblique streak on each side. Abdomen 

 testaceous. Hind femora testaceous beneath, with some transverse black 

 marks on the inner side. Hind tibia pale testaceous, with two blackish 

 bands, as long as the hind femora. Fore wings cinereous, with a green 

 costal streak proceeding from the base, and with a blackish stripe which 

 includes two transverse dingy whitish patches. Hind wings pale cinereous. 

 Length of the body 7^ lines ; expansion of the fore wings [5 lines. 



This species differs somewhat from the typical Epacromia. It has an 

 affinity to Stenobothrus. 



a. Cape Town. Presented by R. Trimen, Esq. 



10. Epacromia repleta. 



Mas. Fulva ; caput nigra maculatum el seplem strigalum, albida quadri- 

 slrigatum, fusligio longi-conica, sulcis laleralibus lalis Iriangulari- 

 bus, fronle nigra guttata; antennce nigricantes, subplaiue, fulva 

 fascialce ; prothorax brcvis, subluberculalus, nigra quadrivittatus ; 

 pectus nigra ntacululunt, venter egultis nigris quudrilineatum ; femora 



