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12. FiDiciNA Aper, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, obliquun, angidum valde ubtu- 

 sum Jin<jens, 2o sexties ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcvr- 

 vus, valde obliqmis, angulum perobtusum fingetis, lo midto 

 longior ; ^us rectus, subobliquus, angulum subobtusmn Jin- 

 gens ; Aus subundatuSy obliquus, angulum acuhim fingens, 3o 

 plus duplb longior. 



Second marginal areolet less than three-fourtlisof the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, fi)rming a very 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by six times its length ; second 

 slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, 

 much longer than the first; third straight, very slightly slanting, 

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

 forming an acute angle, more than twice the length of the third ; 

 fifth curved, almost upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body 

 tawny, short and broad : head full as broad as the fore-chest ; crown 

 adorned with two irregular and branched black bands which are 

 united between the eyelets : face very slightly convex : mouth lawny 

 with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips: eyes prominent: feelers 

 black : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned along the hind border 

 with a black band, which in the middle is widened into a triangle ; 

 furrows black ; hind-scutcheon with three extremely shallow exca- 

 vations on the hind border, slightly convex and forming a very ob- 

 tuse angle near the base of each fore-wing, blackish on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest pitchy on the disk and having an ob- 

 lique black stripe on each side ; hind border rather deeply excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, pitchy above, fer- 

 ruginous and clothed with pale down along the hind border and on 

 each side of the segments : opercula pitchy, small ; drums tawny, 

 very small, rather far apart : legs tawny ; claws and tips of the fore- 

 thighs and of the hind-shanks black ; fore-thighs armed with one 

 stout tooth : wings colourless, but with an extremely slight tawny 

 tinge, black towards the base, ferruginous along the fore border : 

 veins ferruginous, black towards the tips; first and second cross- 

 veins clouded with dark brown ; flaps black towards the base and 

 along the fore border. Length of the body 18 lines ; of the wings 

 48 lines. 



a. Cayenne. Presented by H. C. Rothery, Esq. 



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