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20. Flatoides bifascia, Fem. 



Piceus, hh'tiis, lahis ; frons ferrugineus, carinatus ; epistoma fer- 

 rugineum, laterihus piceiim ; mesothorax non carinatus ; ptctus 

 et abdomen ferruginea ; pedes fulvi ; alee anticce nigra, amp Ice, 

 albn bifasciatcB, ad costam subferruginecB ; alcB posticcB fuscce 

 fascia basique limpidis. 



Body pitchy, hairy, broad and short : head nearly as broad as 

 the chest: crown straig-ht, A'ery short; front slightly tuberculate, 

 rounded and ferruijinous on each side, not surrounded by a rim, not 

 narrower towards the epistoma, straight at the junction, wiih a slight 

 middle ridge, its breadth very nearly iwice its length ; epistoma fer- 

 ruginous, triangular, pitchy on each side : mouth tawny : fore-chest 

 short, slightly arched: middle-chest not ridged : breast ferruginous : 

 abdomen ferruginous, obconical, not longer than the chest: legs 

 tawny : fore-wings black, very large, with two white bands ; veins 

 black, pale yellow on the bands ; longitudinal veins not numerous ; 

 cross-veins rather numerous towards the base : fore border very con- 

 vex, partly ferruginous, along it a row of parallel, slightly oblique 

 cross-veins : hind-wings brown, colourless towards the base, and 

 having near the tip a colourless band which is shortened towards the 

 fore border. Length of the body If line; of the wings 5 lines 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



21. Flatoides marginatus, Fem. 



Fei'rugineus, gramdatus ; frnns piceus, glaber, lateribus ferrugi- 

 neis ; mesothorax non carinatus ; abdomen Iceve ; pedes fulvi ; 

 alee anticce latce, ferruginea, apice oblique truncate, cosfa un- 

 dulata ; vitta sub costa fascicsque nonnullcB fnscce ; vence lon- 

 gitudinales guttatce ; alee posticce subfusccB. 



Body ferruginous, dull, finely granulated, broad, stout: head as 

 broad as the chest ; crown concave along the hind border, straight 

 in front, its length on each side nearly twice that in the middle ; 

 front pitchy, flat, shining, tawny and slightly concave where it joins 

 the episloma, with a broad ferruginous border which is slightly im- 

 pressed, rounded on each side, not narrower towards the epistoma ; 

 its breadth much exceeding its length ; episloma tawny, lanceolate : 

 fore-chest slightly concave behind, more convex in front, much 

 longer than the crown, its breadth near eight times its length : 

 middle-chest flat, not ridged, lull four times the length of the fore- 

 chest ; abdomen obconical, smooth, shining, a little longer than the 



