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pale brown towards the tips and aloni? the hind border ; veins pale 

 straw-colour. Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



12. Elidiptera Guian.e, Fern. 



Fulva, suhUis alho farinosa ; thoracis discus fuscus ; abdomen lu- 

 teum ; pedes fulvi ; ala anticce subfidvce, fusco guttata, hnsi 

 subtuberculatcs, apice albidcB, ad costam dilatata; ; alec posticce 

 albidce, apice subfusae. 



Body tawny, powdered with while beneath : head and fore-chest 

 wanting : middle-chest marked with brown which occupies most of 

 its disk: abdomen luteous, obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 partly brown at the tip : legs tawny, slightly grooved, rather broad ; 

 hind-shanks armed with two black-tipped spines: wings broad, 

 powdered with white: fore-wings pale tawny, whitish towards the 

 tips, slightly tnberculate near the base, adorned with some brown 

 dots which are mostly near the fore border, this is much dilated and 

 very convex near the base and is furnished with very numerous 

 nearly parallel branch veins ; veins tawny : hind-wings whitish, 

 iridescent, tinged with very pale brown towards the tips and along 

 the hind border ; veins pale tawny. Lengtli of the body 3^ lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Piobert Schomburgck. 



13. Elidiptera ferruginea, Mas. 



Fulva; caput flavo maculatum ; mesoihoracis discus piceus ; pedes 

 fulvi ; ales basi subinflata, ad costam subconvexcB non dila- 

 tatce ; alee posticce subcinerece. 



Body tawny : head much narrower than the chest ; its two seg- 

 ments divided by a suture which forms an angle towards the hind 

 border ; hind segment yellow, pitchy on the disk, its back forming a 

 right angle with each side on which the eye is seated ; fore segment 

 pitchy, rounded in front ; front rather broad, rounded on each side, 

 pitchy next the crown : mouth tawny, reaching the hind-hips : an- 

 tenna ferruginous, rather short ; second joint near twice the length 

 of the first : fore-chest as long as the head, very finely rugulose, 

 somewhat truncated in front, slightly concave on the hind border: 

 disk of the middle-chest pitchy : abdomen ol)conical, not longer 

 than the chest : legs tawny, grooved, rather broad ; a tooth on each 

 hind-shank near the tip : fore-wings ferruginous, darker at the tips, 



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