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ridges : hind-chest mottled with brown and yellow : abdomen brown, 

 obconical, a little long^er than the chest ; each segment adorned with 

 several yellow spots of various size and shape: legs tawny, slender, 

 spotted with black ; hind-shanks armed with black spines : wings 

 colourless ; brand pale brown, occupying three areolets and extend- 

 ing into one of the submarginal areolets ; a large pale brown mark 

 occupies the tip of the wing, and extends irregularly along the hind 

 border: on the hind-wings a very short stripe extends to the tip, 

 which is also tinged with brown ; veins tawny. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. India. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



21. DiCTTOPHORA CHLOROCHROMA, Fem. 



Fulva, viridi varia ; cornu viride thorace paidlb longius, ferrugineo 

 vittatum ; pedes fulvi ; alee limpida ; alee anticce apice suh- 

 fuscm. 



Body tawny, smooth, slightly shining: head about half the 

 breadth of the chest : protuberance of the head emerald-green, fur- 

 rowed, horizontal, a little longer than the chest, nearly linear, 

 slightly widening at the base and at the tip, adorned with three fer- 

 ruginous stripes ; epistoma pale yellow with a ferruginous ridge : 

 mouth tawny with a black tip, extending a little beyond the hind- 

 hips : fore-chest concave along the hind border, very convex in front, 

 emerald-green along the borders and on the two longitudinal ridges 

 of its disk : scutcheon of the middle-chest with two emerald-green 

 parallel ridges: transverse ridges of the hind-chest green : abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest, compressed and pointed at the tip, 

 mostly green above towards the tip, darker on the hind border of 

 each segment : legs tawny, tinged with green, slender, furrowed ; 

 hind-shanks armed with four black-tipped spines besides those at its 

 tips : wings colourless ; tips of fore-wings very pale brown ; brand 

 green, occupying three areolets ; veins black, green towards the base. 

 Length of the body 8^ lines ; of the wings xh lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



22. DiCTYOPHORA PLATYRHIXA, Fem. 



Fulva, fusiformis, viridi vittata ; caput prothorace phis triple lon- 

 gius ; abdomen viride^ apice compressum ; pedes virides ; tarsi 

 fulvi ; al(B Hmpidce ; aim anticce apice suhfuscce. 



Body tawny, spindle-shaped, smooth, slightly shining : pro- 

 tuberance of the head near thrice the length of the fore-chest, nearly 



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