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brown spots, between the inner margin and the nerve, or entirely 

 brown, with the exception of a space next the inner margin, ba^e 

 narrowly, nerve as far as the scutellar angle, and 2 or 3 spots on the 

 nerve; Corium ; anterior margin with several small brown spots 

 throughout its entire length ; disk with a broadish brown band, 

 broadest next the claval suture, more or less spotted with gray, the 

 upper edge almost in a line with the scutellar angle ; inner margin 

 between the band and the posterior angle with a brown streak, 

 more or less interrupted with gray spots ; within the anterior margin, 

 at the apex, a short brown streak, and within the inner posterior 

 angle a largish brown spot, the two converging and enclosing a 

 large, pale, rhomboidal patch within the bifurcation of the 1st nerve ; 

 apex of the latter with a short brown streak ; inner angle at the 

 cuneus with a small black spot; Cuneus pale yellowish -gray or 

 grayish-yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge ; base narrowly 

 white ; apex broadly blackish, with several small gray spots ; extreme 

 apex very narrowly pale ; inner margin, near the middle, with a 

 small black spot; Membrane white, somewhat iridescent, with 

 numerous small blackish spots towards and at the apex, more or 

 less confluent, and forming irregular patches ; a little below the 

 apex of the cuneus, and extending to the apex of the anterior 

 margin, a black, triangular patch, generally divided by an irregular, 

 broad pale streak ; inner marginal nerve pale ; cell-nerves ; outer 

 one and apex white ; inner one black ; outer cell, towards the base 

 broadly, at the apex narrowly, black ; disk with several minute black 

 spots, more or less confluent ; inner cell black. Sternum : Meso- 

 sternum brownish above, sides pale, and with a comma-shaped streak 

 at the posterior margin ; Metasternum centre frequently red. Legs 

 pale yellowish, clothed with long, somewhat erect, fine, white hairs ; 

 tliiglis pale at the base ; 1st and 2nd pairs with several large, some- 

 what square, brown spots along the upper and under sides ; 3rd, 

 upper and under sides spotted with brown nearly to the base ; to- 

 wards the apex brown, with a pale diagonal band before the latter, 

 and several pale spots of irregular size, somewhat confluent, and 

 giving the thighs a marbled appearance ; extreme apex pale ; tibia 

 with long, fine, pale brown, somewhat spinose hairs ; 1st and 2nd 

 pairs with 3 blackish or brownish bands, the 1st below the base ; 

 apex frequently brownish ; 3rd with 3 brown bands, the 1st at the 

 base, 2nd in the middle, and the 3rd before the apex ; the 2 latter 

 sometimes divided longitudinally, on the inside, by a pale line ; fre- 



