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

 fore-chest a little narrower before than behind ; furrows, sides and 

 hind border of the scutcheon blackish : hind-scutcheon pale ferru- 

 ginous, nearly as broad in the middle as on each side, where it forms 

 two obtuse angles: scutcheon of the middle-chest adoraed with three 

 very broad obconicai pitchy stripes ; hind border very slightly exca- 

 vated: abdomen obconicai, pitchy, longer than the chest; hind 

 borders of the segments ferruginous : opercnla close, pitchy ; drums 

 tawny, large, meeting beneath, less than half the length of the ab- 

 domen : legs tawny ; feet and fore-shanks pitchy ; claws black : fore- 

 thighs armed with three pitchy teeth, two of which are large and 

 one extremely small : wings tinged with* tawny ; fore border ferru- 

 ginous as far as the brand, pitchy from thence to the tip ; veins 

 black, ferruginous at the base ; primitive areolet, fore-membrane, 

 flaps at the base and along part of the hind border tawny. Length 

 of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



28. FiDICINA SUBGUTTATA, Fcm. 



Nervus transi-enus lus fere rectus^ valde obli(/nus, angulum perob- 

 tusnm fine/ens, 2o plus triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2iis ciir- 

 ruSy obliquus, angulum obtusum Jingens, lo mullo longior ; 

 ^us curvus^ obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; Aus curnis, 

 \o longior et obliquior, angulumque acutio rem Jingens. 



Second marginal areolet more than three-fourths of the length 

 of the first: first cross-vein nearly straight, very slanting, forming 

 an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than 

 thrice its length ; second curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 much longer than the first ; third curved, slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle; fourth curved, longer and more slanting than the third 

 and forming a more acute angle ; fifth curved, upright, forming a 

 very slightly acute angle. Body black, short, broad, tawny beneath : 

 head full as broad as the fore-chest, adorned with a red dot between 

 the eyelets, with a red stripe on each side of the hind border, and 

 with a large red spot on each side of the face ; the latter very con- 

 vex, adorned above with a large red spot : mouth black, extending 

 to the hind-hips : eyes hardly prominent : feelers black : fore-chest 

 narrower belbre than behind ; scutcheon short, adorned with a pale 

 red stripe in the middle, and with two indistinct dark red dots on 

 each side ; hind-scutcheon very broad, dark red, slightly excavated 

 on the hind border, blackish along the borders, slightly convex and 

 not indented on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned 



