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each side, rather narrower in front, slightly concave where it join^ 

 the epistoma, surrounded by a rim and havino- a slight middle ridtre? 

 its breadth nearly twice its length; epistoma triangular, with a 

 middle ridge: fore-chest slightly arched, with a middle ridge, about 

 twice the length of the crown : middle-chest about five times the 

 length of the fore-chest, with three ridges ; the side pair curved, 

 united in front and behind, and enclosing a flat elliptical compart- 

 ment: abdomen ferruginous, a little longer than the chest: legs 

 ferruginous : wings blackish-brown, ample: fore-wings adorned with 

 six colourless spots ; two in the disk ; one near them on the fore 

 border ; one on the tip near the fore border, and two close together 

 on the tip near the hind border; sometimes there is a colourless dot 

 near the larger spot on the disk ; a row of colourless dots along the 

 tips of the four wings ; veins blackish, pale on the spots; longitu- 

 dinal veins very numerous, the spaces between them thickly ribbed 

 across towards the tips; cross-veins rather numerous; fore border 

 dilated near the base where there is a row of oblique parallel cross- 

 veins. Length of the body 3 — 4 lines ; of the wings 10 — 12 lines, 

 a, b. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 

 c. Hong-Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 

 d. ? 



8. Flatoides peefoeatus. Fern. 



Niger ; frons et epistoma carinata ; prothorax carinatus ; ineso- 

 thorax tricarinatus ; pedes rufi, ; femora picea ; alee nigro- 

 fuscce, cyaneo-albo suffusce ; alee anticce maculis quinque lim- 

 pidis ornatce. 



Nearly allied to the preceding species, but the spots on the wings 

 are very different in form. Body black : head as broad as the chest : 

 surrounded by a rim, slightly tuberculate, slightly concave on the 

 hind border, sraight in front ; its length not one-eighth of its 

 breadth ; front very broad, rounded on each side, rather narrower in 

 front, slightly concave where it joins the epistoma, surrounded by a 

 rim and having a slight middle ridge; its breadth nearly twice'its 

 length ; epistoma triangular, with a middle ridge: fore-chest slightly 

 arched, with a middle ridge, about twice the length of the crown : 

 middle-chest about five times the length of the fore-chest, with three 

 ridges ; the side pair curved, united in front and behind, and in- 

 closing a flat elliptical compartment: abdomen a little longer than 

 the chest: legs dark red; thighs pitchy: wings blackish-brown, 

 ample, tinged with bluish-white ; fore-wings adorned with five large 

 colourless spots ; two in the disk ; one near them on the fore border ; 



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