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chest ; segments towards the tip edited with black : legs tawny, 

 rather broad ; hind-shanks armed with two stout spines whose tips 

 are black: fore-wings ample, ferruginous, obliquely truncated at the 

 tips by the fore border, slightly undulating and having a brown band 

 from thence to the hind border, brownish along the fore border and 

 with two or three undulating brownish bands in the disk; veins fer- 

 ruginous ; longitudinal veins dotted, numerous towards the tips ; . 

 cross-veins very numerous in the disk ; fore border convex toward 

 the base, slightly concave toward the tip, along it a row of more or 

 less parallel and oblique cross-veins which are most numerous towards 

 the tip : hind-wings pale brown, little more than half the length of 

 the fore-wings; veins ferruginous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



22. Flatoides eetractus, Fern, 



Ferrugineus, granulatus ; frons piceus, glaher ; mesothornx non 

 carinatus ; pedes fulvi ; alcB anticte latce, ferruginea^ fiisco 

 varicB^ oblique ti'uncatcB, albo fasciata ; 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, slightly emarginate where it joins the epis- 

 toma, with a broad border which is slightly impressed, rounded on 

 each side, not narrower towards the epistoma, its breadth much ex- 

 ceeding its length ; epistoma ferruginous, lanceolate : mouth tawny : 

 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, full four times the length of the fore-chest : abdo- 

 men obconical, smooth, shining, a little longer than the chest: legs 

 tawny, rather broad; hind-shanks armed with two stout spines 

 whose tips are black : fore-wings ample, ferruginous, mottled with 

 brown, obliquely truncated at the tips by the fore border, slightly 

 undulating and with a brown band from thence to the hind border, 

 adorned with an elliptical short white band in the disk ; veins darker 

 or paler according to the colour of the wing ; longitudinal veins 

 numerous ; cross-veins few ; fore border very slightly undulating, 

 along it a row of parallel cross-veins which are much more numerous 

 and more oblique near the tip than towards the base : hind-wings 

 pale brown ; veins darker. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines, 

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



