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merous ; disks of the areolets mostly pale ; fore border very convex, 

 along it a row of stout parallel oblique cross-veins which slightly 

 decrease in length from the base to two-thirds of the length where 

 they terminate: hind-wings white. Length of the body 3^ lines; 

 of the winofs 12 lines. 



37. PcECiLOPTEEA CupiDO, Mas. 



Crocea, tuberculata ; caput conicum, depressum, vix ascendens ; 

 thorax Iricarinatus ; abdomen cristatum ; pedes fiavi ; tarsi 

 ruji ; alee anticce crocecB, apice truncatcB et rufo guttatcB^ mar- 

 gine posiico tuberculata ; alee postica albce. 



Body saffron -colour, tuberculated : head conical, flat, hardly 

 ascending; crown concealed; front short above, much longer and 

 with a slight middle ridge on the fore side, somewhat rounded on 

 each side, straight where it joins the epistoraa ; the latter is trian- 

 gular and has a slight middle-ridge ; side compartments nearly 

 triangular : fore-chest conical, as long as the head, concave on the 

 hind border, longer in the middle than each side : middle-chest more 

 than twice the length of the fore-chest, with three slight ridges : 

 abdomen obconical, crested, a little shorter than the chest : legs 

 pale yellow ; feet and tips of the shanks red : wings broad ; fore-wings 

 saffron-colour, powdered with white beneath, truncate at the lips, 

 along which and along the adjoining parts of the fore border and of 

 the hind border there is a row of red dots; a stripe of red tubercles 

 along the hind border decreases in breadth from the base ; tip and 

 hind border forming a right angle; veins red : longitudinal veins 

 rather numerous, ramified ; cross-veins veiy numerous ; areolets 

 minutely mottled, their disks pale ; fore border slightly convex, 

 along three-fourths of it a row of oblique parallel here and there 

 forked cross-veins: hind-wings white. Length of the body 2^ lines; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



38. PCECILOPTEEA STELLAEIS. 



Lutea ; caput perbreve ; prothorax viridi marginatus ; inesothorax 

 carinatus ; tarsi subferruginei ; alee anticce virides, ferrugineo 

 maculatce, apice truncatce, margine postico tuber culatce ; alee 

 postlcce albce. 



Body luteous : head very short ; crown short, very slightly 

 arched, bordered by a rim ; front flat, a little broader towards the 



