194 CATALOGUE OF 



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Piv, Soleuostoma. 

 Solenostoma, Sgnl. A. S. E. F. 4me Ser. iii. 575. 



86. MONANTHIA LiLIPUTIANA. 



Solenostoma Liliputiana, Sgnt. A. S. E. F. 4me Sh: iii. 575, pi. 13, f. 27. 

 Chili. 



87. 



MoNANTHIA LANCEOLATA. - ' fjU^MJ^'"^^**' 



Nigra, longi-fusiformis ; prothorax iricarinatus, postice atlenuatus, 

 margine antico lestaceo, carina media alia postice hutnuli ; pedes 

 longiusculi ; alee aniicce striga costali albida dlaphana. 

 Black, slender, elongate-fusiform. Head slightly elongate. Prothorax 

 narrower in front, with a transverse furrow, with a testaceous fore border, 

 and with three keels ; middle keel very high, testaceous in front, testaceous 

 and much lower in the hind part, which is elongated and acute. Legs 

 slender, rather long. Fore wings opaque, minutely reticulated, with a 

 whitish diaphanous costal streak, which is attenuated towards the base and 

 does not extend to the tip. Length of the body 2^ lines. 

 a. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



88. MONANTHTA LINEIFERA. 



Nigra, fusiformis ; prothorax tricarinalus, lateribus et carina media alta 

 antice producta albidis diaphanis reliculatis, margine postico 

 producto acuto apicem versus albido ; pedes longi, gracil.es, sordide 

 albidi, femoribus nigricanlibus ; alee anticce alba, diaphance, lineis 

 tribus transversis strigaque obliqua arcuala fuscata nigris. 



Black, fusiform. Head slightly elongated. Prothorax with a whitish 

 diaphanous and reticulated border on each side and with three whitish 

 keels ; middle keel diaphanous, reticulated and very high in front, where it 

 extends a little over the head ; hind part elongated, acute, whitish towards 

 the tip. Legs long, slender, dingy whitish ; femora mostly blackish. Fore 

 wings white, diaphanous, minutely reticulated, with three transverse black 

 lines near the base and with an oblique forked curved black streak, which 

 extends from near the end of the interior border to near the end of the 

 costa. Length of the body 2 lines. 



a. Brazil. Presented by W. VV. Saunders, Esq. 



Africa. 



A. Sides of the prothorax not reflexed. Subg. Phyllontochila, Fieb. Ent. 



Mon. 59. Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. 27. 



B. Sides of the prothorax reflexed. 



a. Sides of the prothorax very narrowly foliaceous. Subg. Physatochila, 



Fieb. Ent. Mon. 80. Stal, Hem Afr. iii. 28. 



b. Sides of the prothorax very broadly foliaceous. Subg. Elasmognathus, 



Fieb. Ent. Mon. 90. Stal, Hem. Afr. iii. 29. 



