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latter with black tips. Wings lurid, with two subcostal blackisli spots ; 

 veins black, tawny at the base. Haltercs testaceous, with brown knobs. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 ? 



Ctenophoba. fumiplena, Fcem. 



Atra ; palpi nigro-picei ; abdomen luteo bifasciatum ; pedes nigri, 

 tibiis (libido cinctis ; ahe nigricantes, strigis nonnullis pallidis ma- 

 culisque quatuor albis. 



Structure of C. ardens. Deep black. Palpi piceous-black. Abdo- 

 men with two luteous bands ; one near the base ; the other a little 

 beyond, much narrower than the first. Legs black ; tibiae with a whitish 

 band near the base. Wings blackish, with some pale streaks, and with 

 four white spots, three of which form a band, and the fourth is more 

 towards the base of the wing, and very near the hind border. Length of 

 tlic body 8 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



China. 



Fam. RHYPHID.E, Haliday. 



Genus RHYPHUS, Latr. 



Rhyphus brevis. 



Fiilva ; caput postice albido-testaceum ; aniennce fusccc, basi fulva ; 

 thorax fusco irivittatus ; metalhcrax cinerens ; alee subeinere(E,fas- 

 ciis nonnullis interruptis fuscis, venis stigmateque nigris. 



Tawny. Head behind whitish testaceous. Antenna; brown, tawny 

 at the base. Thorax with three broad brown stripes. Metathorax cine- 

 reous. Abdomen testaceous beneath. Wings very slightly grayish, with 

 several interrupted and irregular brown bands ; stigma and veins black, 

 the latter tawny at the base. Length of the body 2 — 3 lines; of the 

 wings 6 — 8 lines. 



Van Dicnian's Land. 



