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from the second by much more than twice its length ; second slightly 

 curved, nearly uptight, forming a hardly obtuse angle, much shorter 

 than the first ; third indistinctly waved, slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth curved, upright, form- 

 ing a nearly right angle. Body tawny, partly covered with white 

 down : head much narrower than the fore-chest ; region of the eye- 

 lets black ; face narrow, very convex, rather prominent : mouth 

 lawny with a black tip reaching the hind-hips : eyes not prominent: 

 feelers black, very slender except at the base where they are pitchy : 

 fore-chest much narrower in front than behind; scutcheon adorned 

 with a Y-shaped black mark, which by sending forth from its middle 

 on each side an oblique black stripe to the hind border forms a re- 

 versed W ; hind-scutcheon a Htlle narrower in the middle than at the 

 base of each fore-wing where it is rounded, thence it quickly de- 

 creases in breadth and ceases at half the length of each side : scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest adorned with eight black stripes, these 

 being united into t\\;o on each side include four obconical tawny 

 marks, the inner pair of which are much shorter than the outer 

 pair, but are succeeded by a large black spot which commimicates 

 with two black spots, the latter are on each side of the cross-ridge 

 which is dark greenish-tawny: hind border hardly excavated: abdo- 

 men ferruginous, longer than the chest, partly pitchy on each side 

 and beneath where it has two short obconical tawny stripes towards 

 tlie base : oviduct ferruginous : legs tawny : thighs, shanks, and fore- 

 hips adorned with pitchy stripes ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at 

 the base ; fiu-e-lhighs armed with three red teeth which are pitchy at 

 the base, one large, the second of moderate size, the third small: 

 wings colourless; fore border green; veins pale green, black towards 

 the tips, marked with black at the base and on the hind border, and 

 on the middle vein of the flap ; first and second cros?-veins and the 

 longitudinal vein between them clouded with brown ; a row of pale 

 l)rown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of tlie submarginal 

 areolets ; fore-membranes tawny ; tips of the hind-wings brown ; 

 flaps tawny at the base, brown at the tips and along part of the hind 

 border. Lensfth of the bodv 10 lines; of the wino-s 28 lines. 



