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veins of equal length : hind-wings and their veins white. Length 

 of the body 2h lines : of the wings 8 lines. 



Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



59. PCECILOPTERA VEN USTA, Mas. 



Flava ; caput breve, angustum ; alee alba. 



Body pale yellow, powdered with white : head short, very nar- 

 row, hardly half the breadth of the chest ; crown very short ; front 

 flat, linear, a little broader towards the epistoma, with a high rim 

 on each side, concave where it joins the epistoma, its length about 

 four times its breadth : epistoma narrow, attenuated ; side compart- 

 ments flat, almost spindle-shaped : feelers subclavate ; second joint 

 rather long : fore-chest much shorter than the head, almost straight: 

 middle-chest full four times the length of the fore-chest : abdomen 

 obconical, a little longer than the chest: legs pale yellow : wings 

 broad, white; veins of the fore-wings pale yellow, very few. Length 

 of the body If lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



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60. PCECILOPTEEA SOLITA, Fcm. 



Fulva; caput, longum, subconicum, siibfoveolatum ; alee antics 

 virides, sat angustce ; ala postlcce albidce. 



Body tawny : head rather long: crown almost conical, forming 

 a thin edge with the front, having a slight furrow across the middle 

 of the disk ; front arched, elliptical, slightly concave, straight where it 

 joins the epistoma, bordered by a slight rim ; epistoma small, rather 

 narrow : fore-chest arched, shorter than the head : middle-chest full 

 thrice the length of the fore-chest: abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest : legs pale tawny : wings rather narrow : fore- 

 wings pale green ; veins green ; longitudinal and cross-veins nume- 

 rous, the latter undulating ; fore border very slightly convex, along 

 it a row of cross-veins of equal length: hind-wings whitish. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 ? lines. 



61. PCECILOPTERA PERPUSILLA, Fcm. 



Albida ; pedes anteriores fulvi; pedes postici albidi ; alcB anticce 

 albo-flavce ; alee posticce albce. 



Body whitish : head and fore-chest wanting : middle-chest not 

 ridged : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest: anterior 



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