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Abdomen testaceous ; disk above mostly black. Legs pale testa- 

 ceous. Wings vitreous ; veins black, pale testaceous towards the 

 base. Fore wings with a blackish border, which is broadest along 

 the costa, where it is accompanied by some lurid streaks, and 

 is dilated where it includes a lurid spot, which is connected with a 

 white dot ; a brown dot in the disk near the base, and another 

 by the interior border ; a slight trace of a brown band along the 

 interior row of veinlets, which are irregular ; exterior row of vein- 

 lets quite regular. Hind wings with a brown exterior border. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



Flatoides dubitans. 



Niger; vertex parvus ; frons plana, testacea, subquadrata^ fascia 

 nigra ; fades parva ; prothorax hrevissimus ; pedes testacei ; 

 alee anticce nigro-fusccp, costa non lata ; posticce nigricante- 

 cinerece . 



Black. Vertex small ; front flat, testaceous, almost square, 

 with a black band by the vertex ; face small. Prothorax very 

 short. Legs testaceous. Fore wings blackish brown ; costa not 

 broad; transverse veinlets forming two regular exterior lines, else- 

 where irregular. Hind wings blackish gray. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



Flatoides nigrifrons. 

 Fulvus ; vertex niger, brevissimus ; frons nigra, transversa, quinque 

 carinata, antice rotundata ; fades minima ; prothorax arcua- 

 tus brevissimus, albidus, antice testaceus; mesothorax trica- 

 rinatus, disco nigro ; abdomen nigrum, testaceo bivittatum ; 

 pedes pallide testacei ; alee vitrece, venis nigris basi tesfaceis ; 

 antica margine incompleto nigricante guttas vitreas includente, 

 venulis transversis nigris fusco subnebulosis ; posticcB margine 

 perangusto nigricante. 



Tawny. Vertex black, extremely short ; front black, transverse, 

 rounded in front, with five very indistinct keels ; face very small, 

 Prothorax arched, whitish, very short, testaceous in front. Meso- 

 thorax with a black disk, and with three keels, which are connected 

 in front. Abdomen black, with a testaceous stripe on each side, 



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