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work ; the middle pair parallel ; the other four oblique ; llie spaces 

 between them adorned with black net-work ; sides slightly convex : 

 hind-scutcheon dark tawny, broad, extending beyond the scutcheon 

 and having a black spot on each side: disk of the scutcheon of the 

 middle-chest black, adorned with five green stripes ; the middle one 

 indistinct till near the hind border which is hardly excavated ; the 

 inner pair much curved outward, the outer pair oblique : abdomen 

 ferruginous, obconical, not longer than the chest, adorned with three 

 rows of black spots, greenish tawny on each side towards the base 

 and beneath : opercula none : lymbals hoary with tawny ridges, be- 

 tween which there are tawny spots ; drums extremely small : legs 

 tawny, very haiiy ; thighs with pitchy stripes ; two pitchy bands on 

 each shank and foot ; claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three 

 tawny teeth, two of these are large with pitchy tips, the third is 

 very small: wings colourless, tawny and marked with black at the 

 base ; veins and fore borders dark towards the tips : a narrow black 

 band on the fore border; cross-veins clouded with brown; flaps of 

 the hind-wings colourless, tawny at the ba«e ; a brown dot on the tip 

 of each longitudinal vein of the fourth, fifth and sixth marginal 

 areolets ; three or four pale yellow bands on the veins about the 

 middle of the wings ; fore borders of the flaps clouded with brown. 



Fern. — Like the male but reddish tawny, and with ferruginous 

 instead of black marks: abdomen ferruginous, longer than the chest, 

 adonied with an interrupted paler stripe along the back and with a 

 row of pitchy spots on each side: oviduct ferruginous: legs tawny, 

 adorned with pitchy marks •■ fore border of the fore-wings bright red ; 

 veins reddish towards the base. 



Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



a, b. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. JSniith. 



6. Carineta LErcoNEURA, Mas. 



Nervus transx-ersus Tms cnrvm, obliquius, angulwn obtmum fingens, 

 '2n plus ejus longitudine divisiis ; '2us siibcurvus, ohliquus, an- 

 gulum obtitsum fiugens, lo paullo brevior ; 3iis subcuri-us, 

 valde obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; Aus fere rectus, 

 suberectus, angulum obtu.sum fingens, 3i dimidio paullo lon- 

 gior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : first 

 cross-vein curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, parted from 

 the second by much less than twice its length ; second very slightly 

 curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, a litile shorter than the 



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