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slightly contracted between the eyes, and its slight ridge extends to 

 the epistoma which is nearly black and has a few large shallow punc- 

 tures : mouth brown, extending a little beyond the hind-hips : fore- 

 chest almost truncate in front, concave behind, with a ridge on each 

 side and a more slight ridge along the middle : two ridges on the 

 middle-chest : breast yellow : abdomen brown, tawny at the tip, with 

 a red spot on each side at the base: legs pale brown, slightly grooved ; 

 each hind-shank armed with one tooth : fore-wings pale brown, over- 

 spread with very numerous almost colourless dots, and having a few 

 brown spots along the fore borders ; hind-wings pale gray ; veins 

 pale brown. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5| lines. 



a — c. St. John's Bluff, Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



6. MoNOPsis SiNiCA, Fern. 



Flavo-viridu, fusiformis, viridi vittata ; caput prothorace paullb 

 longius ; abdomen thnrace non longius ; pedes Jlavo-virides, 

 tarsi fulvi ; alee anticce virides fulvo subtuberculatce, apice 

 limpidcB. 



Head much shorter than in all the preceding species : no cross- 

 vein along the fore border before the reticulated part of the wing: 

 body yellowish-green, spindle-shaped: head and chest tawny above: 

 head slightly conical, not much longer than the fore-chest, rounded 

 and surrounded by a bright green ridge on each side and in front, 

 slightly concave on the hind border, adorned with three bright green 

 ridges, the side pair not extending beyond the disk from the hind 

 border: fore-chest almost truncate in front, with a deep obtusely an- 

 gular excavation on the hind border, adorned with three bright green 

 ridges, the side pair oblique, longer than the middle one : front 

 smooth, flat, scutcheon-shaped, not contracted in the middle, with 

 a slight ridge on the border and a slight ridge in the middle, divided 

 by a deep suture from the epistoma: mouth pale yellowish-green : 

 abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest: legs pale yellowish- 

 green ; very slightly grooved ; feet tawny ; hind-shanks armed with 

 three black-tipped spines which are between the middle and the tips : 

 wings colourless ; basal part of fore-wings pale green, occupying two- 

 thirds of the surface, covered with little tawny tubercles, very dis- 

 tinct from the reticulated part, which however has unusually fevv 

 cross-veins ; veins green. Length of the body If line ; of the wings 

 5 lines. 



a. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



