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and inucli powdered with white beneath : head much narrower than 

 the fore-chest, adorned with a bhick stripe, and with an irrea^ular 

 black baud; face slightly convex, adorned in front with two black 

 stripes, on each side of which there are a few black bauds : mouth 

 tawny, with a black tip reaching the hind-hips : eyes not prominent ; 

 feelers black, tawny at the base : fore-chest broadest in the middle : 

 scutcheou adorned in the middle with two parallel black stripes, 

 which are widened in front ; furrows black ; hind-scutcheon widened 

 with a black border on each side which fonns a very obtuse and 

 slightly rounded angle: scutcheou of the middle-chest adorned with 

 four obconical black marks ; the outer pair much longer than the 

 inner pair, and much excavated on the inner side ; between the 

 inner pair there is a black cross, and behind it on each side a black 

 dot supported by a short black band ; hind-border deeply excavated : 

 abdomen as broad as the chest, almost linear till near the tip, where 

 it is conical ; each segment adorned with a pitchy band whose 

 hind border is much excavated: opercula none ; tymbals ferruginous, 

 with whitish stripes; drums pale green, of moderate size, rather far 

 apart : legs tawny ; tips of the shanks, feet and fore-shanks black ; 

 fore-thighs armed with two long sharp black teeth ; hind-shanks be- 

 set with a few tawny spines : wings colourless, tawny at the base of 

 the fore border, green at the base of the hind border ; veins black, 

 ferruginous towards the base ; flaps whitish tow'ards the base. 

 Length of the body 20 — 22 lines -, of the wings 57 — 60 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. ? 



7. Zammara slffusa, Mas. 



Nervns transversus 1ms subcurvus, valde obIi(/uus, angulum valde 

 obtusum /inc/ens, 2o fere triplo ejus lonyitudine divisiis ; 2us 

 subcurvus, perobliquus, angulum perobtusum Jiuyens^ lomultd 

 longior ; 3us subundutus, obliquus, aiiguium subaculum Jin- 

 gens ; 4us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum acutuin Jingens, 3o 

 longior. 



Second marginal areolet near three-quarters of the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slanting, form- 

 ing a very obtuse angle, parted irom the second by nearly thrice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, extremely slanting, forming 

 an extremely obtuse angle, very much larger than the first ; third 

 slightly waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth 

 very slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle, longer than 

 the third ; fifth curved, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black 



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