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the chest, slightly arched, short-conical in front, rounded on each 

 side, very slightly concave on the hind border, with a slight middle 

 ridge ; its length a little more than half its breadth ; underside with 

 a whitish middle ridge : shield very slightly convex in front, with 

 five very slight ridges, the middle one indistinct and very short ; 

 hind border concave in the middle, convex on each side ; scutcheon 

 depressed on the disk, pitchy and slightly gibbous towards the tip : 

 abdomen with a red band on the hind border of each segment : 

 shanks wuth pitchy tubercles, slightly widened : fore-wings whitish, 

 slightly testaceous rewards the base ; veins pale ferruginous, nodose, 

 partly pitchy ; fore borders rounded towards the tips : hind-wings 

 colourless. Length of the body 8i lines; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



Group 2. Head long, somewhat keeled. 



8. Ledka caudata. 



Ferruginea, nigra tiiberculata, siibtus testacea nigra varia; scutum 

 convexum,rugnsum ; scutellum apice convexum., fulvumet nigra 

 hivittatum ; ahdomen ferruginea fasciatum ; fern, apice cauda- 

 tum ; pedes testacei, nigra varii ; alcB anticce piceo-luridce ; alee 

 posiicce fusccB. 



Ferruginous: head and chest thickly covered with very small 

 black tubercles : head short-conical, as broad as the chest, very 

 slightly arched, very concave along the hind border, convex on each 

 side, with a very slight middle ridge; its length about half its 

 breadth ; underside black on each side of the disk of the fore part; 

 face testaceous, streaked with black towards the epistoma, which is 

 black: shield flat in front, convex, rugose and pitchy behind, short 

 on each side, vei-y convex on the fore border, concave in the middle 

 and convex on each side of the hind border ; scutcheon flat, tawny, 

 convex, and with a black stripe on each side towards the tip : breast 

 testaceous ; disk mostly black : abdomen black ; hind borders of the 

 segments ferruginous ; underside with ferruginous dots on each 

 side ; the ferruginous hue is predominant towards the tip ; caudal 

 appendages compressed, as long as the abdomen : legs testaceous, 

 varied with black: fore-wings pitchy; areolets mostly lurid, with 

 pitchy spots along the fore border and at the tip ; fore border con- 

 vex towards the tip: hind-wings brown. Length of the body 12^ 

 lines; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



