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with two black slender stripes which slip:htly converge, but cease at 

 some distance from the hind border, where they are succeeded by 

 two black dots ; furrows and side borders pitchy ; hind-scutcheon 

 pale tawny, widened, rounded, and adorned with a black spot at the 

 base of each fore-wing-, armed with a tooth on each side : scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest dark lawny, adorned with five slender black 

 stripes ; the inner pair proceeding from the fore border, slightly ob- 

 lique, shorter and broader than the middle one ; the outer pair at 

 some distance from the fore border, slightly curved above ; near each 

 of them on the lore border are two black dots, and there are two black 

 dots near the cross-ridge; hind border slightly excavated : abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest, ferruginous above, tawny at the 

 base, armed with a rather long horn which is pitchy towards the tip : 

 legs pale tawny ; claws black towards the tips ; foie-thighs armed 

 with three teeth, first and second rather large, first pale tawny, 

 second black, third black and small ; fore-feel and lips of the fore- 

 shanks pitchy : wings slightly tinged with tawny : fore border bright 

 tawny as far as the brand, dark lawny from thence to the tips ; veins 

 lawny, black towards the tips ; fore-Haps tawny ; hind-flaps lawny 

 at the base and for a space along the hind border. Length oi' the 

 body 15 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Philippine Islands. 



39. DuNDUBiA Samia, Mas. 



Nervus transversiis Ins curvus, erectus, unguium fere rectum fin- 

 gens, 2o fere duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, erec- 

 tus, angulum suhohtusum jingens, \o pauilb longior ; 3ms suh- 

 curvus, obliquus, angulum suhacutum Jingens ; 4us subcurvus. 

 obliquus, angulum fere rectum Jingens, 3o brevior. 



Second marginal areolet full two-thirds of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein curved, upright, forming a nearly right angle, 

 parted from the second by nearly twice its length; second curved, 

 upright, forming a very slightly obtuse angle, a little longer than 

 the first ; third slightly curved, slanting, forming a very slightly 

 acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, slanting, forming a 

 nearly right angle, shorter than the third; fifth straight, upright, 

 forming a right angle. Body green, tinged here and there with 

 tawny : head much narrower than the fore-chest, pitchy about the 

 eyelets, and with a pitchy streak on each side along the eye : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip reaching beyond the hind-hips : eyes promi- 

 nent : feelers tawny : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with a 

 pale streak which is slightly widened in front and behind ; a pitchy 

 spot on each side ; hii.d-scutcheon narrovv in the middle, slightly 



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