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gate, slender, tlie last segment furnished with a dense brush of elon- 

 gate, capitate scales. 



In the neuration of the wings this insect much resembles some of 

 the Pyralidaj, but it also in this agrees with some of the latter groups 

 of the Noctuida}, near to Ophiusa and Ophideres.* In the form of 

 the palpi it agrees precisely with the latter genus, and I have little 

 hesitation in assigning it a position not very remote from the two ge- 

 nera above mentioned, though at first inclined to place it amongst the 

 Pyralidae. 



lontlia umhrina. All the wings, above and below, umber-coloured, 

 darker beyond the middle : anterior, above with two indistinct darker 

 striaj and a small dot near the base ; outer margin shaded with bluish 

 grey, which colour extends also, but less distinctly, along the margin 

 of the posterior wings ; on the margin itself of the anterior wings is a 

 crenulated darker line : below, posterior wings with a row of small 

 white dots beyond the middle. Head, thorax and abdomen umber- 

 coloured, the latter below ochraceous white ; anal tuft dark brown, in 

 certain lights strongly iridescent. Thorax below with a transverse 

 white band at the base of the anterior legs. Anterior legs brown 

 above, whitish below ; second pair brown above pale below. Ex- 

 pansion of the wings two inches. 



Inhabits Sylhet. In the cabinet of H. Doubleday. 



Edward Doubleday. 



Art. LXXX. — Ceramhycitum Insularum Manillarum Dom. Cuming 

 capiorum enumeratio digesta. Auctore Edward Newman. 



(Continuatio. Vide p. 293). 



QQ. vel 51^ fAhryna) eximia. Viridi-ajnea, splendida, fulgore metalli- 

 co mutanti omnino lasta, maculisque impressis lanuginosis albis 

 pulcherrime ornata : antenna? basi distantes, dimidio corporis 

 longiores ; articulus Imus uigro-chalybeus, caeteri nigricantes, 

 fulgore metallico paullo gaudentes, 3tio 4toque exceptis, basi 

 cano-lanuginosis : oculi ad antennarum basin divisi ; mandibu- 

 lae validse, arcuatae, nigrae ; caput pvmctum, epicranii facieique 

 carina longitudinalis vix elevata nigra, faciei quoque macula ob- 



* Phalaena materna, Drury (Tripliaena materna, Westwood's edit.), may be viewed 

 as the type of this genus, created some years since by Boisduval. 



