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wings with m.my black dots, with some black palclies, and with a bba-k 

 subcostal streak which extends from the base to beyond one-third of the 

 length. Hind wings blackish cinereous. Length ot the body 8 lines; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



Brazil. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



NAUPHtETA RUBRICOSA. 



Fuem. Nigra, fusiformis, opara, dense punctata; caput prothoracem 

 pauUo stiperans, plaga antica nigricanle ; antenncB lulece ; prothnrax 

 jnargine anlico rufo truncato, lateribiis subreflexis ynargineque postico 

 vix rotundato latejlavis; abdomen Jlavo marginatum, lamina svpra- 

 anuii inlegra; cerci lutei, linear es ; pedes hitei, tibiis rufo-apinnsi.i ; 

 aim anticcB rufcp, abdomen superantes, casta Jlava, trtinco humerali 

 fiigro ; ala posticcE nigriantes. 



Female. Black, fusiform, dull, thickly and minutely punctured, 

 shiniun beneath. Head extending a little beyond the prothorax ; a blackish 

 patch near the mouth. Eyes livid, far apart. Antenna; luteous. Pro- 

 thnrax not longer than half its breadth, red about the fore border, which is 

 truncated, broadly bordered with yellow on each side and behind; sides 

 sligiilly rounded and reflexed, slanting outward from the fore border to the 

 liind border, which is hardly rounded in the middle and hardly angular on 

 each side. Abdomen bordered with yellow, this hue narrower beneath 

 tlian above, when it is dilated on the hind border of each segment; supra- 

 anal lamina entire. Cerci luteous, linear. Legs hiieous, moderately long 

 and stout; tibiae with red spines; arolia large. Wings extending some- 

 what beyond the abdomen. Fore wings red, semicoriaceous ; humeral 

 trunk black; costa yellow. Hind wings blackish. Length of the body 

 13 lines; of the winys 28 lines. 



South Africa. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus PROSCRATEA, page 43. 



Prosceatea? illepida. 



Fcem. Fiilva, fusiformis, subtiliter tuberculata ; caput pallide fulvum, 

 protlioravem paullo superans ; oculi invicem remoti ; antenna; piccfe, 

 bdsi saturate rvfi, corpore breviores ; prothnrax piceo varius, lilura 

 scutelliformi indeterminata, margine postico sinuato ; mesothorax et 

 me.tathorax angulis posticis pruductis rotundatis ; abdomen apive 

 integrum, vitiis guatuor macularibus unaque integra nigricantibus ; 

 femora subtus pallide testacea. 



Female. Tawny, fusiform, dull, rather flat, minutely tuberculate, 

 paler and shining beneath. Head pale lawny, extending a little beyond 

 the prothorax; front shining, sockets of the antennae pale testaceous. 

 Eyes l)iack, far apart. Antennas piceous, slender, very minutely setulose, 

 shorter than the body, dark red at the base. Prothorax diffusedly varied 

 with piceous, twice broader on the hind border than on the fore border; 

 sides rounded ; hind border hardly undulating, hind angles much rounded, 

 disk witli some traces of the scutcheon-shaped mark. Mesothorax and 



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