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21. MONECPHORA VITTA.TA. 



Picea,ferrugineo varia ; pectus testaceum ; abdomen ferrugineuin ; 

 pedes iestacei ; tarsi nigri ; alec anticce Jlavce, angustce, fusco 

 guadrivitlatcB, apice fusco maculata. 



Pitchy, partly ferruginous : head and chest almost flat, very 

 finely punctured : face prominent, very convex; keel slight; cross 

 ridges oblique, rather indistinct : mouth testaceous, with a black 

 tip: anteniiE black; fourth joint tawny : breast testaceous: abdo- 

 men ferruginous : legs testaceous ; feet and tips of anterior shanks 

 black ; hind feet testaceous at the base: fore-wings yellow, long and 

 narrow, with four irregular, partly united brown stripes : a row of 

 angular brown spots along each tip : hind-wings almost colourless, 

 pale brown at the tips and along the hind borders. Length of the 

 body 3^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. South America. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



22. MoNECPHORA ORNATA. 



Fusca ; caput subtus et pectus lutea, hoc nigro maculatum ; thorax 

 flavo bifasciaius ; abdomen rufum, subtus luteum ; pedes lutei, 

 ta7-sis nigris ; alee anticce flavo trimaculatce. 



Brown : head and chest slightly shining, very finely punctured : 

 head luteous beneath ; face very convex ; no keel, but a smooth, flat 

 stripe between the ridges, which are oblique and indistinct: mouth 

 luteous, w'ith a pitchy band and tip : antennae black ; fourth joint 

 tawny, accompanied by a shorter bristle : two broad, bright yellow 

 bands on the chest, one along the fore border, the other near the 

 tip : breast luteous, with a very large transverse subquadrate black 

 spot: abdomen red, luteous beneath : legs luteous; knees, feet, and 

 tips of shanks black : fore-wings adorned with three pale yellow 

 spots ; one at the base, nearly round ; second long, extending in a 

 slightly obli(iue direction from the fore border to beyond the mid- 

 dle ; third almost roimd, on the fore border near the tip : hind- 

 wings nearly colourless ; flaps pale brown ; veins brown. Length 

 of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Brazil. 



