36 LIST OF HOMOITEROUS INSECTS. 



tawny spots, of which the two inner pair are nearly square, and the 

 two outer pair are curved; face very convex, rather prominent: 

 mouth tawny, with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes black : 

 feelers black, tawny towards the tips: fore-chest broadest in the 

 middle ; scutcheon adorned with some tawny marks which resemble 

 a reversed C, and on each side with some more obscure tawny marks ; 

 hind-scutcheon green, tinged with tawny, and having a brown spot 

 on each side, which is widened into a projecting and slightly obtuse 

 angle, whose fore side is convex, its hind side concave : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest adorned with a tawny W-shaped mark, behind which 

 are four short stripes ; these are united on the hiud border ; an ob- 

 conical, oblique tawny mark on each side : sides and hind border 

 green, the latter rather deeply excavated : abdomen tawny, nearly 

 elliptical, hardly longer than the chest ; segments adorned with 

 blackish bands, which are broadest towards the tip : opercula none ; 

 tymbals brown, adorned with white bands ; drums green, rather 

 small, very little apart: legs tawny; shanks green; feet and fore- 

 shanks black ; fore-thighs armed with two small, sharp, green teeth ; 

 hind-shanks beset, with a few tawny spines whose tips are black : 

 wings green at the base ; fore-wings dark brown, colourless towards 

 the base ; the brown part includes some colourless marks which are 

 variable in size, shape and situation; veins black, tawny towards 

 the base of the fore-wings ; hind-wings colourless. Length of the 

 body 14 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



a, h. Guayaquil. Presented by Dr. J, D. Hooker. 



6. Zammara Montezuma, Mas. 



Nervus transversus \us fere rectus, valde ohliquus, angulum Isolde 

 ohtusum jingens, '2o plus duplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, perobliquus, angulum perobtusum Jingens, lo mul- 

 tb longior ; 'Sus subundatus, obliquus, angulum fere rectum 

 fingens ; 4us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jin- 

 gens. 



Second marginal areolet four-fifths of the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein nearly straight, very slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its length ; 

 second very slightly curved, extremely slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, much lunger than the first ; third very slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming a nearly right angle : fourth straight with 

 the exception of a slight curve in its upper part, slanting, forming 

 a slightly acute angle ; fifth curved abruptly to the hind border, 

 forming a slightly acute angle. Body pale tawny above, greenish 



