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22. EURYBRACBYS RUBICUNDA, MaS. 



Picea, ferrugineo varia ; 'pectus, inetatfiorax et ahdomen rufa ; 

 pedes nigri ; femora postica rufa; iihice posticoi ferruginece ; 

 alee anticm ferruginecB, nigro marginatcB, apice maculis duahus 

 limpidis ornatce ; alee posticce suhnigrce, apice albo unima- 

 culatcc. 



Body broad, very short, pitchy varied with dark ferruginous : 

 head as broad as the chest; crown very slightly arched, with a slight 

 longitudinal ridge and with a rim on the border ; its breadth more 

 than six times its length ; front scutcheon-shaped, slightly riigulose, 

 bordered by a rim, slightly concave where it joins the epistoma ; its 

 breadth almost twice its length ; epistoma short, nearly triangular : 

 mouth ferruginous : middle-chest much longer than the fore-chest, 

 almost triangular, with two oblique ridges; hinder sides slightly 

 concave: breast, hind-chest and abdomen bright red, the latter ob- 

 conical, a little longer than the chest; laminae pale straw-colour, 

 powdered with white: legs black, hind-thighs red with black lips; 

 hind-shanks dark ferruginous, armed wiih three long stout spines : 

 fore-wings ferruginous, black along the fore border and at the tips 

 and partly along the hind border; a few ferruginous dots in the 

 black part ; a tawny spot on the hind border and two large colour- 

 less spots near the tip which is bristly ; veins ferruginous, black to- 

 wards the tips : hind-wings blackish with a white spot near the tip of 

 the fore border; veins black. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines, 



a. Sandy Cape, New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



23. EUEYBRACHYS L^TA. 



Eurybrachys laeta, White, Eyres Exped. Austral. 1. Appendix 433, 

 pi. 4, f. 3. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



24. Edrybrachys subfasciata, Mas et Fem. 



Testacea, couspersa ; pedes rufi ; femora postica jiava ; alee antica 



fidvo-ferruginece, apice nigro maculatcc ; ahe postica sublim- 



pid(C aut subfusca, apice subnigrce albo fasciatce. 



Body short, broad, testaceous, sprinkled with darker colour: 



head as broad as the chest ; crown very slightly arched, with an in- 



