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indistinct, its breadth nearly twice its len^^tli ; epistoma and mouth 

 tawny, the former indistinctly rida^ed : fore-chest arched, with a 

 middle ridge, full twice the length of the crown, longer in the middle 

 than on each side: middle-chest finely striated across, with five 

 ridges, the inner pair diverging from the fore border and united to 

 the outer pair in the disk : abdomen obconical, a little longer than 

 the chest, ferruginous at the base and beneath : legs tawny : wings 

 colourless, with brown borders; fore-wings ample ; a brown dot near 

 the base, beyond it two slender brown bands; the first forming a 

 brown ringlet in the disk, between which and the fore border it 

 is widened and includes a colourless dot ; the second very slight, ex- 

 tending along the outer band of cross-veins ; veins tawny, here and 

 there brown; longitudinal veins numerous; cross-veins few: fore 

 border very slightly convex, along it a row of parallel cross-veins 

 which are more oblique where the longitudinal vein appears con- 

 torted ; brand tawny. Length of the body 2^ — 3 lines ; of the wings 

 8 — 9 lines. 

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



11. PocHAZiA AUSTR4LIS, Fern. 



Ferruginea ; frons testdcea, tricarinata ; prothorax carinatus ; 

 mesothorax tricarinatus ; pedes teatacei ; alee anticcc suhfulvce^ 

 ad contain testacece, fusco marginatce et bifasciatce ; alee pos- 

 ticee limpid(S, fusco marginata. 



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

 short, bordered by a rim, concave behind, very slightly convex in 

 front and consequently much shorter in the middle than on each 

 side ; front testaceous, rounded on each side, very little narrower to- 

 wards the epistoma, without a rim, slightly concave where it joins 

 the epistoma, with three ridges, the side pair curved, its breadth 

 nearly twice its length ; epistoma testaceous, triangular, not ridged : 

 fore-chest more than twice the length of the crown, with a tawny 

 middle ridge, hind border concave in the middle, convex on either 

 side, fore border the reverse, its middle curve exceeding that of the 

 hind border : middle-chest with three ridges, the side pair slightly 

 undulating : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; the 

 three processes above and the lateral plates tipped with black : legs 

 testaceous : fore-wings ample, with a very slightly tawny tinge, tes- 

 taceous along the fore border for near half the length from the base, 

 brown mottled with tawny behind the testaceous hue and along the 

 fore border beyond and along the tip, a colourless spot on the brown 

 of the fore border, two or three very irregular and imperfect brown 

 bands on the disk ; veins tawny ; longitudinal veins numerous ; 



