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pitcby spot which incloses ihe eyelets, and on each side with two 

 larj^er ferrujjinous spots ; lace convex, not prominent, ferruginous 

 above with the exception of a tawny triangular spot on the hind 

 border; mouth tawny with a pitchy tip extending to the hind 

 border of the drums: eyes very prominent : feelers black : fore-chest 

 narrower before than behind; scutcheon adorned with four pitchy 

 stripes ; the middle pair widened on the fore border, slightly con- 

 verging thence for two-thirds of the length, then diverging and 

 curved and including a spindle-shaped tawny spot ; furrows and 

 sides mostly pitchy ; hind-scutcheon mostly green, narrow in the 

 middle, rounded much Avidened and adorned with two large pitchy 

 spots above the base of each fore-wing, slightly excavated and armed 

 with a very small tooth on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with five pitchy stripes and with two pitchy spots ; the mid- 

 dle stripe longer than the inner pair, which are slightly oblique : 

 outer pair apparently obliterated with the exception of their hinder 

 part ; hind l^order very slightly excavated, with a pitchy streak on 

 each side: abdomen slightly obconical, rather less than twice the 

 length of the chest, adorned with a pitchy spot on each side of every 

 segment from the base to the tip which is pitchy : opercula ex- 

 tremely small, not covering the tymbals which are white with brown 

 bands and spots ; drums very small, pale green, slightly overlapping : 

 legs tawny ; thighs tinged with green , claws black, tawny at the 

 base ; fore-thighs armed vvith three tawny teeth, two of moderate 

 size, one very small : wings narrow, colourless, adorned with opaline 

 lustre ; lore border tawny with the exception of a brown band ad- 

 joining the brand which is tawny ; veins lawny, adorned with black 

 bands, partly ferruginous in the disk, black at the tips; first and 

 second cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of brown spots on the 

 tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets ; primitive 

 areolet pale tawny ; fore-flaps dark tawny ; hind-flaps dark tawny 

 at the base, and for a short space along the hind border. Length 

 of the body 18 lines; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Ceylon. 



30. DuNDUBiA NicoMACHE, Mas. 



Nervus transversns \us curvuSy subobliquus, angulum ohtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o quadruplb ejus lonijilmline divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 subobli(/uus, angulum oblusuni Jingens, \o paullb brevior ; 

 Sus subundatus, obliquus, unguium vix acutuni fingens ; Aus 

 undatus angulum acutum Jingens, So longior et obliquior. 



Second marginal areolet two-thirds of the length of the first ; 

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



