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border: hind-wings pale gray. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the 

 wings 9 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



17. Flatoides tenebrosus, Mas. 



Nigro-fuscus ; frons ferrugineus, tricannatus ; prothorax carinatus ; 

 mesothorax tricarinatus ; abdomen Gbconicum, thorace paulld 

 longius, subtus apice fulvuin : pedes fulvl : alcB anticcc nigro- 

 fiisca, latcB, fasciis albidis inter venas ornatce ,• al<£ posticm 

 cinerecE. 



Body blackish-brown : head as broad as the chest; crown very 

 short, very concave behind, slishtly cunvex on the fore border, its 

 length in the middle about half of its length on each side ; front 

 ferruginous, very much broader than long, rounded on each side, 

 hardly narrower towards the epistoma, flat, surrounded by a rim, 

 straight where it joins the epistoma, having three ridges, the middle 

 one approaching the epistoma, the side pair shorter and slightly 

 curved ; epistoma ferruginous, triangular, not longer than broad : 

 mouth tawny : fore-chest broadest in the middle, very convex in 

 front, more slightly concave behind, with a middle ridge ; its length 

 about one-sixth of its breadth: middle-chest full five times the 

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

 backward from the middle one and terminating on the oblique sides 

 of the chest ; abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 tawny beneath at the tip ; appendages short ; legs tawny : fore-wings 

 blackish brown, rather broad, adorned with numerous little dingy 

 white bands between the longitudinal veins and on some of the 

 cross-veins: longitudinal veins very numerous ; cross-veins few; fore 

 border dilated, along it a row of oblique more or less parallel cross- 

 veins ; hind-wings gray, darker towards the tips ; veins blackish. 

 Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



18. Flatoides lignarius, Mas et Fem. 



Ferrugineus ; frons falvus ; prothorax bicarinatus ; mesothorax 

 piceus, non carinatus; abdomen obconicum ; pedes f til vi ; alee 

 anticcE ferruginea, sat latce, maculis nonnullis nigro-fuscis ; 

 areolarum disci sublimpidi ; ahe posticee cinerecCy bast palli- 

 diores. 



Body ferruginous : head a little narrower than the chest, crown 

 almost united with the front, not arched, with a large pitchy spot on 



