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Wings rather broad, greyish, subhyaline, clouded with darker 

 grey, especially in the apical half, with a large, elongate, 

 blackish-fuscous spot on each side of the pale pterostigmatical 

 region, and with blackish-fuscous spots in the subcostal area ; 

 costal veinlets curved, strong, blackish fuscous ; longitudinal 

 veins blackish fuscous ; transverse veinlets of the disk few, 

 fine, and pale : the coloration of the posterior wings almost 

 precisely identical with that of the anterior. 



Allied to C.japonicus and C. Boivrinrji^ more closely to the 

 former, but apparently distinct. 



Chauliodes tenuis^ n. sp. 



C. griseo-testaceus. Antennse maris simplices. Prothorax elon- 

 gatus, capite angustior. Abdomen nigricans, appendicibus su- 

 perioribus elongato-conicalibus, inferioribus fere obsoletis. Pedes 

 ochracei, genibus tarsisque fuscescentibus. Alae anticse angustee, 

 griseo-subhyalinse, conferte griseo notatse, punctis tribus griseo 

 sufFusis inter sectorem et cubitum posticum nigricantibus : 

 posticse hyalinsD, punctis duobus inter sectorem et cubitum nigri- 

 cantibus ( c? ). Long. Corp. 11'" ; exp. alar. 26'". 



Hah. in Africa australi. In coll. Mus. Brit. 



Greyish testaceous. Head elongate. Antenna3 concolorous, 

 simple. Prothorax elongate, narrower than the head ; meta- 

 thorax ochreous. Abdomen blackish ; superior appendices 

 elongately conical, hairy. Legs ochreous ; knees and tarsi 

 fusccscent. 



Anterior wings elongate, narrow, subacute, subhyaline, with 

 a greyish tinge, and with numerous small pale-grey spots 

 arranged somewhat in transverse series ; in the space between 

 the sector and cubitus anticus are three blackish, somewhat 

 corneous points, each clouded with grey ; neuration pale fus- 

 cous : posterior wings hyaline, with greyish neuration j there 

 are two blackish points in the same area as in the fore wings. 



A somewhat delicate insect, from Kysna, South Africa; 

 allied to the New-Zealand C. dvmrsus^ but smaller. 



List of described Species of Chauliodes. 



Asia. 

 C. sinensis J Walker. 

 Chauliodes sinensis, Walk. Cat. Brit. Mus. Neurop. p. 199 (1853). 

 China. 



C.Japoniciis, M'Lachlan. 

 C. jajwniciis, M'Lachl. Journ. Liiiu. Soc, Zool. vol. ix. p. 232 (1867). 

 Japan. 



