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sometimes confluent; a tawny sli<^htly curved band separates this 

 part from the reticulated tips, which are brown witli tawny veins : 

 hind-wings green with nnmerous brown spots, gray mingled with 

 white towards the tips, white along the inner border. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Malabar Coast. Presented by T. Ward, Esq. 



Var. ? Flavn-fusca, subtiis rufa ; metathorax niger ; abdomen ru- 

 fum, nigra fasciatiim ; pedes nigri, femora rufa ; alic anticce 

 Jlaiida, fusco notatce ; apice fiavo-fuscce ; alee posticce fiiscce, 

 maculis suhlbnpidis var ice. 



A recurved horn on the head : wings of moderate size ; fore- 

 wings not much longer than the hind-wings : their tips obtuse. Body 

 yellowish-brown, red beneath : crown of the head slightly ridged and 

 furrowed; front rather prominent, furnished with a slender, black, 

 linear, furrowed horn which is inclined backward nearly to the hind 

 border of the shield: mouth ferruginous with a darker tip extend- 

 ing nearly to the tip of ths abdomen : an excavation partly inclosing 

 the eye on each side of the front of the shield, the fore part of whose 

 side borders is black : hind-chest mostly black : abdomen red, nearly 

 elHptical, a little longer than the chest; a black band across each 

 segment above : legs black, furrowed ; thighs red ; hind-shanks 

 armed with spines: fore-wings pale dingy yellow, adorned with very 

 numerous brown marks; reticulated part yellowish -brown : hind- 

 wings bro\vn, with many almost colourless spots which are partly 

 confluent ; hind border almost colourless ; tip pale brown. Length 

 of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. East India. 



28. Aph-ena torrida, Mas. 



Rufa, subtus fulva ; prothorax et scutum flavo bimaculata, kujus 

 discus nigricans ; abdomen lateribus ventreqv£ fiavum ; pedes 

 rufi., tarsi nigri ; alee fiavo-fusccB, basi rufce ; alee anticce fulvo 

 subvittatcB. 



Body red, lawny beneath : crown of the head surrounded by a 

 ridge, which is highest in front, and is imperfectly divided into two 

 compartments, the middle ridge not extending to the fore border ; 

 front with six longitudinal ridges, between which are many little 

 furrows : a longitudinal ridge on the epistoma : mouth tawny with 

 a black tip extending far beyond the hind-hips : shield of the chest 

 transversely rugulose, deeply ridged in front and along tlie middle, 

 on each side of which it is concave and has a large yellow spot : 

 scutcheon much sculptured, blackish with two yellow spots in front : 



