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33. Cixius Meander. 



Fulviis^ thoracis discus fuscus ; pedes fulvi ; femora fiiscn bifas- 

 ciata ; ahe anticcB sublimpidce, fusco-undatce, ad costam jiavo 

 unimaculatce ; nervi straminei, nigro yuttati. 



Body tawny : front long and narrow, with a row of brown spots 

 along each side of the disk which is also brown : mouth tawny : 

 eyes large ; fore-chest with three oblique ridges on each side : disk 

 of the middle-chest brown : abdomen wanting : legs tawny, slightly 

 grooved ; two brown bands on each thigh : fore-wings almost colour- 

 less, adorned with several brown waved bands which are partly con- 

 fluent or interrupted; the disks of the spaces between them are 

 occupied by paler brown bands ; a large yellow spot on the fore 

 border ; veins pale straw-colour, thickly dotted with black knots ; 

 structure of the vein alike along tlie whole length, very few cross- 

 veins : hind-wings wanting. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



a. East India. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



Var. .f* Niger, Jlavo vittatus, caput subtus scutellum et pectus flava : 

 pedes nigri ; tibia ferruginece ; al(enigro-fusc(e,basiflava,ad 

 costam fulvo vittatce. 



Body black, dull : head as broad as the fore- wing near the base : 

 crown with a rim along each side and behind, where it is angular 

 and ferruginous; two oblique ridges join the middle longitudinal 

 ridge beyond half its length and enclose with it and the hind border 

 two triangular compartments ; a slight longitudinal ridge on the 

 front which is widened on each side and rather longer than broad ; 

 epistoma yellow, triangular, black towards the base : mouth brown, 

 reaching beyond the middle-hips : fore-chest lari^^-e, broader than 

 long, with three distinct nearly parallel ridges, yellow along each 

 side: middle-chest yellow, small, trian^ular: breast yellow, bright 

 tawny on each side: abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest; 

 legs black, slightly grooved, rather slender ; shanks ferruginous : 

 hind-shanks unarmed : fore-wings blackish-brown, briglit yellow at 

 the base; a long tawny stripe on the fore border ending in a white 

 cross streak, opposite to which on the hind border there is a white 

 cruciform mark ; veins black ; six longitudinal veins reaching the 

 tip, two cross-veins in the disk, four nearer the tip, and three or four 

 on the fore border beyond the tawny stripe: hind-wings brown. 

 Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



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