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3. DiCHOPTERA TESSELLATA, Fem. 



Fulva,fusco varia; caput cornu incurvum fingens ; pedes fulvi, 

 femora rufo guttata, tihice fusco cinctce, tarsi ferrwjinei ; alee 

 iimpidce fusco va rice . 



Body tawny mottled with brown : head about half the breadth 

 of the chest ; crown narrow ; its disk mostly black with the excep- 

 tion of a tawny stripe ; an upright ridge forms a nearly right angle 

 on each side ; protuberance full thrice the length of the crown, fur- 

 rowed, curved upward, sickle-shaped, varied with brown, having a 

 deep notch above at one-third of its length ; front, face, and epis- 

 toma narrow, ridged : mouth tawny, extending far beyond the 

 hind-hips : eyes prominent : fore-chest widened in front, slightly 

 concave on the hind border, with a ridge along the middle, and 

 with two ridges and a few tubercles on each side : two slight parallel 

 ridges on the scutcheon of the middle-chest : abdomen obconical, 

 a little longer than the chest : legs lawny, pubescent ; thighs adorned 

 with red dots ; shanks with brown bands ; feet ferruginous ; spines 

 of the hind -shanks w^ith black lips : wings slightly tinged with 

 tawny ; fore-wings adorned with numerous irregular brown marks ; 

 veins bristly, brown tawny or pale yellow ; cross-veins regular and 

 very numerous along the whole length of the wing. Length of the 

 body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



4. DiCHOPTERA FEERUGINEA, Fcm. 



Fulva, fusco et nigro maculata ; caput prothorace vix duplb longius : 

 abdomen ftilvo-viride, thorace paullb longius^ suhtus apice 

 nigrum ; segmentorum margines postici fusci ; pedes fulvi^ 

 tibiis apice tarsisque fuscis ; alee limpida, anticce apice sub- 

 fuscce ; stigma rufum. 



Body tawny with brown spots : head short, its length in front 

 of the eyes somewhat less than that between them ; two brown spots 

 in the disk of the crown, which has on each side an upright convex 

 ridge, the edge of the latter is black, and it forms an obtuse angle 

 near its tip, where it is elevated ; sides in front of the eyes yellow, 

 a black spot on each, and between them, at the tip of the under side, 

 a larger triangular black spot ; from the latter two parallel red ridges 

 proceed along the whole length of the front, which is yellow, and 

 widens towards the epistoma, its borders are also red ; the epistoma 

 is yellow, and has a tawny middle ridge, and a brown stripe along 



