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side, and with a slender white middle stripe : abdomen obconical 

 whitish-green, a little longer than the chest, crested above ; upper 

 appendages inclined downward, forming an obtuse angle, and meet- 

 ing the lower appendage which is curved upward and is furnished 

 with upright tawny spines: legs pale green ; feet partly tawny : wings 

 broad ; fore-wings pale green, tuberculate along the hind border to- 

 wards the base, truncate at the tips, along which and along the 

 adjoining parts of the fore border and of the hind border there is a 

 row of brown dots; hind angles hardly acute; veins green ; cross- 

 veins very numerous ; disks of the areolets colourless ; fore border 

 convex ; along it a row of parallel, slightly oblique, here and there 

 forked, cross-veins which are shorter and irregular towards the tip : 

 hind-wings white. Length of the body 3^ — 4 lines ; of the wings 

 11 — 12 lines. 

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



36. PCECILOPTEEA PRODUCTA, MaS. 



Lutea, subcompressa ; caput conicum, vix ascendens ; thorax tri- 

 carinatus ; abdomen cristatum; pedes postice virides ; ala 

 anticce virides, apice truncate et fusco guttata, margine postico 

 tuberculatce ; areolarum disci limpidi ; alee posticce albce. 



Nearly allied to P. sinensis, but differing in the shape and 

 neuration of the fore-wings Body luteous: head conical, hardly 

 ascending, terminating in a sharper lip than that of P. sinensis ; 

 crown concealed ; front convex, short and with a middle ridge above, 

 flat, much longer and broader and bordered by a rim on the fore side, 

 slightly concave where it joins the epistoma which is triangular; an 

 oval slightly concave compartment on each side surrounding the eye 

 and the leeler, the bristle of the latter is black : thorax slightly 

 compressed: fore-chest conical, green, tuberculate, with a middle 

 ridge and somewhat reticulated with ridges on each side, slightly 

 concave at the tip ; its length on each side about half of that in the 

 middle, but it lengthens again towards the breast : middle-chest near 

 thrice the length of the fore-chest, with three ridges, the middle one 

 more strongly marked than the side pair, which are slightly curved 

 outward : abdomen obconical, hardly longer than the chest, crested 

 above ; appendages at the tip much like those of P. sinensis : legs 

 pale luteous; hind-legs pale green : wings broad; fore-wings green, 

 tuberculate along the hind border for two-thirds of the length from 

 the base, truncate at the tips, along which and along the adjoining 

 parts of the fore border and of the hind border there is a row of 

 brown dots; hind angles acute; veins green; cross-veins very nu- 



