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Green, rather slender, here and there with sericeous pubescence. 

 Head with a black spot on the vertex, and with a black lanceolate 

 streak on the front. Prothorax less rounded in front than in most 

 species, with two black discal streaks. Mesothorax with two black 

 lateral stripes and with three black discal spots, two in front and. 

 one hindward. Abdomen with black interrupted bands on the hind 

 borders of the seo^raents, and with two black apical streaks ; under 

 side with three black stripes, the middle one broad. Fore legs 

 partly black, their femora and tibiae with three spines. Wings 

 vitreous ; veins black, green towards the base. Fore wings with the 

 costa green to the end of the front areolet, where it is black; first 

 transverse vein very oblique, parted by almost twice its length from 

 the second, which is very slightly oblique in the same direction, 

 and also straight; third and fourth oblique and straight; third 

 much shorter than the fourth. Hind wings with a brownish tinge 

 at the tip of the fold. Var. (3. — Luteous with black marks. Fore 

 vviogs with the veins for full half the length from the base, and 

 with the costa luteous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 20 lines. 



a. Petropolis, Rio Janeiro. Presented by J. Gray, Esq. 



b. Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. Hamlet Clark. 



Genus CARINETA, Cat. Horn. p. 249. 



Carineta doxipteea. 



Viridis, pubescens, subtus testacea; caput pnstice testaceum ; pro- 

 thorax testaceo bimacidatus ; mesothorax testaceus ; abdominis 

 setpnenta fiisco marginata, maculis lateralibus rnfis ; pedes 

 testacei ; femora antica trispinosa ; ola lurido-vitrece ; anticcc 

 strigis submarginalibus duplicatis fuscis; posticca margine 

 exteriore apicali fusco. 



Grass-green, pubescent, testaceous beneath. Hind part of the 

 head testaceous. Prothorax with a large testaceous spot on each 

 side. Mesothorax mostly testaceous. Abdomen brighter than the 

 thorax ; segments with a red spot ou each side, and with dark 

 brown hind borders. Legs testaceous ; fore femora with three 

 spines. Wings lurid-vitreous; costa and veins black. Fore wings 

 with a double brown streak in each marginal areolet; first trans- 

 verse vein oblique, slightly curved, parted by more than twice its 

 length from the second, which is slightly oblique in the opposite 



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