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rather short. Legs stout ; femora with stout spines. Win?s not extending 

 to the tip of the abdomen. Fore wings longer than the hind wings, with 

 many brown or ferruj;ini)us jjoiuls and a few dots of the same hue, the 

 latter are mostly on ilie mcinlnanous part of the right wing; humeral 

 trunk prominent ; longitudin;il veins slightly elevated ; costa rounded. 

 Hind wings cinereous ; costal and disioidal area with stout testaceous veins ; 

 costal area testaceous-tinged ; anal area with slender brown veins and with 

 whitish transverse sectors. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 

 20 lines. 



It agrees with E. repanda in the form of the thorax, but differs from 

 it in the antennae, and more especially in the structure of the wings. The 

 shorter fore wings distinguisii it from all the preceding species in this 

 section. 

 ff, b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



27. Epilampea aectata. 



Mas. Testacea, fusiforrnis, suhtililer punctata ; antennce picpce, graciles, 

 basi testacecB, corpore non breviores ; prothorax lateribus convexis 

 non acicnlaiis,marghteposlico producto ; cerci Longi ; pedes robusti ; 

 alee anticee abdomen longe superantes ; alee postica cinerece. 



Male. Testaceous, fusiform, shining, minutely punctured. Head 

 extending very little beyond the prothorax. Eyes black, wide apart. 

 Antenna piceous, slender, as long as the body, testaceous at the base. 

 Prothorax much narrower in front ; sides rounded, not dilated ; hind 

 border prolonged and rounded. Cerci long. Legs stout ; femora with 

 stout spines. Winj^s extending much beyond the abdomen. Fore wings 

 with the losla slightly rounded towards the base ; right wingwiih the hind 

 part cinereous. Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 10 lines; of 

 the wings 23 lines. 



It differs from E, sabtilosa in having no black streak on the fore 

 wings; the nairower prothorax distinguishes it from E. subconspersa, E. 

 repanda, E, substrigala, E. alligata, and E. adjuncta. The tibiae are much 

 shorter than those of E. sodalis. 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sii C. Schomburgck. 



28. Epilampra puncxicoli.is. 



Mhs. Testucea ; vertex nigro binlrigatus ; frnns nigra conspersus ; 

 antennce nigra, corpore paul I o long lores ; prothorax nigro subcon- 

 sperstis, margine antico vix truncato, lateribus rotundaiis perparum 

 reflexis, margine poslico producto ; cerci longi ; ptdes graciles ; alee 

 abdomen longe superantes ; alee posticce obscure cinerea-, alas anticas 

 paullo superantes. 



Male. Testaceous, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head extending a 

 little beyond the prothorax, with two black longitudinal streaks on the 

 vertex; front black-speckled. Eyes testaceous, rather wide apart. Antennae 

 black, slender, seiulose,tesliiceous at the base, a little longer than the body. 

 Pioihorax very thickly black-s|u ckied ; fore border hardly truncated ; sides 

 rounded, very slightly reflexed ; hind border prolonged. Abdomen with the 

 supra-aual lamina bilobed. Cerci long. Legs slender; femora with several 



