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acute ana:le, a little shorter than the third ; fifth straight, nearly 

 upright, formin? an ohtuse ang-le. Body rather lon<r, somewhat 

 spindle-shaped, ferruginous, partly covered with hoary bloom : he;ul 

 and scutcheon of the iore-chest tinged with green : head narrower 

 than the fore-ohest ; face very convex, rather prominent : mouth 

 tawny with a hhick tip, extending some distance beyond the bind 

 borders of the drums : feelers tawny, very slender except at the 

 base: fore-chesl a little narrower in front than behind ; hind-scut- 

 cheon bright green, partly ferruginous along the fore border, round- 

 ed and somewhat widened at the base of the fore-wing, slightly 

 angular, but not toothed on each side : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest green on each side and at the tip ; cross-ridge pale tawny ; 

 excavation on the hind border very slight : abdomen slightly ob- 

 conical, very much longer than the chest, green and powdered with 

 white beneath, adorned at the base with a short snow-white band, 

 which forms two triangles : opercula pale tawny, close, of mode- 

 rate size ; drums green, of moderate size, slightly overlappin<r, full 

 one-fourth of the len^ith of the abdomen : legs tawny, tinged with 

 green ; fore-thighs armed with three tawny teeth, two large, on : 

 very small ; claws l)lack, tawny at the base: wings colourless ; fore, 

 wings slightly tinged with tawny towards the tips ; a row of pale 

 brown spots along the tips of the longitudinal veins of the submar- 

 ginal areolels; first and second cross-veins clouded with brown, traces 

 of which are visible on the other cross-veins ; fore border green as 

 I'ar as the brand, dark tawny from thence towards the tip ; veins 

 green, adorned with black bands across the breadth beneath the 

 brand, wholly l)lack towards the tips ; primitive areolet, fore-mem- 

 brane, flaps at the base and for a space along the hind border tawnv. 

 liCngth of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 41 lines. 



a. East India. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



28. DuNDUBiA PsECAS, Fem. 



Neri^us transvcrsus \us valde ciirvus, subobliquits, ajic/ulum acutum 

 fingens, 2o plus quam ejus lonyitudine divisus ; 2us valde 

 curvus, nbliquus, angulum snbubtusum fingens, \i longitudine ; 

 '.\us curvus, obliquus, avgulum acutum fingens, 4us subcurvus, 

 obliquns, unguium acutuni fingens, 3o paullo longior. 



Second marginal areolet five-sixths of the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein very much curved, slightly slanting, forming an 

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

 second much curved, slanting, iorming a slightly obtuse angle, as 

 long as the first ; third curved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle, very little 



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