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each side, its breadth full twice its length ; front tawny, flat, broad, 

 rounded on each side, not narrower towards the epistoma, slightly 

 concave where they join, surrounded by a slight rim, having a very 

 short middle ridge adjoining the crown ; its breadth much exceeding 

 its length ; epistoma tawny, lanceolate : fore-chest straight in front 

 and behind, with a ridge on each side converging towards the fore 

 border, its breadth about four limes its length : middle-chest pitchy, 

 not ridged : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, raised 

 into a cone near the base ; sexual appendages very long, upper one 

 armed above near the base with two spines, curved downward towards 

 the tip which approaches the middle of the tip of the lower one, the 

 latter is very deep, especially at the tip where its depth is almost 

 equal to its length : legs tawny : fore- wings ferruginous, moderately 

 broad, with a few variable darker spots ; disks of the areolets almost 

 colourless; veins brown; longitudinal veins not numerous; cross- 

 veins rather numerous ; fore border much dilated towards the base, 

 along it a row of oblique parallel cross-veins ; hind-wings gray, paler 

 towards the base. 



Fern. Abdomen shorter than the chest ; tip rounded, along it 

 is a groove which is ridged across. 



Length of the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



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



19. Flatoides fumosus, Fem. 



Obscure ferruginens ; frons subtricarinatus ; mesothorax piceus, 

 non carinatwi ; abdomen obconicum, thoracenon longius ; pedes 

 ferruginei ; alee anticcB lata;, uigro-fusca ; alee posiica fuscce. 



Body dark ferruginous : head as broad as the chest ; crown very 

 short, slightly arched, its length not one-eighth of its breadth ; front 

 ferruginous, flat, rounded on each side, a little narrower towards the 

 epistoma, surrounded by a slight rim, having three indistinct ridges, 

 concave where it joins the epistoma, which is triangular: fore-chest 

 very short, slightly arched: raiddle-chest pitchy : abdomen obconical, 

 not longer than the chest : legs ferruginous : fore-wings blackish 

 brown; veins black ; longitudinal veins rather numerous; cross-veins 

 few; fore border widened,^ convex, along it a row of more or less 

 oblique and parallel cross-veins; hind-wings brown. Length of the 

 body H line ; of the wings 6 lines. 



