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the base; veins green; longitudinal and cross-veins very numerous: 

 hind-wings white. Length of the body 3h lines; of the wings 10 

 lines. 



a. Tranquebar. 



40. PCECILOPTERA MUNDA, Fem. 



Crocea ; caput subacution ; mexothorax tricarinatus ; abdomen 

 cristatum ; "pedes rufi ; femora vtridia ; alee antict^ croceee, 

 apice truncatce, margine postico tuherculatte ; alee posticfB allxe . 



Body pale saffron-colour : head of moderate length ; crown 

 conical and almost acute in front, concave on the hind border, with 

 a ridge in the middle which is longer than each side ; front flat, a 

 little broader towards the epistoma, straight on each side, bordered 

 by a slight rim, straight where it joins the epistoma, with three dis- 

 tinct ridges, its length much exceeding its breadth ; the compartment 

 on each side nearly triangular, hardly concave ; epistoma yellow, 

 triangular, very slightly convex : fore-chest longer than the crown, 

 very convex in front, more slightly concave behind, with a ridge in 

 the middle whose length slightly exceeds that of each side: middle- 

 chest about thrice the length of the fore-chest, with three ridges, 

 the side pair slightly curved, inclining to each other and united 

 near tlie hind border, where there is a cross-suture : abdomen ob- 

 conical, crested alcove, a little longer than the chest : legs pale red ; 

 hips and thighs \)\x\e green : wings broad ; fore-wings pale saffron- 

 colour, truncated at the tips which form slightly obtuse angles with 

 the hind borders, the latter have a tuberculated region which is very 

 broad at the base and tapers thence along two-thirds of the length 

 where it terminates ; fore border convex, along it a row of oblique 

 parallel often forked cross-veins which terminate at three-fourths of 

 the length, a dot on each space between the veins ; longitudinal 

 veins rather numerous, much ramified; cross-veins very numerous, 

 paler than the longitudinal veins; disks of the areolets whitish: 

 hind-wings white. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 10 

 lines. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Ilaslar Hospital. 



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