450 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Tawny, with the usual structure. Head smooth, pale testa- 

 ceous, with seven brownish stripes above; middle stripe conical, very 

 broad; inner and outer pair broad; middle pair slender; fore part 

 yellow; front almost smooth, with five irregular tawny stripes. Prothorax 

 tuberculate, with two irregular brown stripes and with two strongly 

 impressed transverse lines. Oviduct almost straight, black towards the lip, 

 as long as the abdomen. Legs stout ; spines with black tips ; hind femora 

 a little less than five-eighths of the length of the fore wings. Fore wings 

 narrow, cinereous, longer by three lines than the hind wings, with many 

 irregular brown spots; areolels large; veins testaceous; reticulation 

 whiiish. Hind wings dark cinereous; longitudinal veins ferruginous; 

 transverse veins paler. Length of the body 21 lines; expansion of the 

 fore wings 52 lines. 



The fore wings are broader at the tips than those of M. subnotatus, 

 and the transverse veins towards the exterior border of the hind wings are 

 much more numerous. 



30. MERONCIDIUS SUBMARGINATUS. 



Foem. Testaceus ; caput nigro trilineatum, front e clypeoque viridibtuj 

 oculi nigro conspersi ; antenna rufesecntes ; prot/iorax tuberculatus, 

 nigro marginatus ; oviductus apicem versus niger ; pedes nigro- 

 spinosi ; alee anticce angusta ; alee poslicce nigricanle cinerece,fusco 

 venosce. 



Female. Testaceous. Head with three very irregular black longi- 

 tudinal lines on the vertex; keel black; front and clypeus green, thinly 

 punctured. Eyes speckled with black. Antennae reddish, testaceous at the 

 base. Prothorax tuberculate, with two strongly impressed transverse lines 

 and with a slight abbreviated longitudinal impressed line; fore border and 

 hind border black. Oviduct hardly curved, black towards the tip, as long 

 as the abdomen. Legs moderately stout ; spines black ; hind femora five- 

 ninths of the length of the fore wings. Fore wings narrow, longer by one 

 line and a half than the hind wing;:; areolets large, mostly regular ; scapular 

 vein parallel and approximate to the externo-medial till near the tip, where 

 they diverge. Hind wings blackish cinereous; veins brown. Length of 

 the body 15 lines; expansion of the fore wings 38 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Sir E. Home. 



31. MERONCIDIUS MARGINATUS. 



- Fo3m. Fulvus ; caput antice albidum ; antennce fuscce, testaceo annu- 

 late? ; prothorax subliliter rugulosus ; oviductus niger, baai testaceus ; 

 pedes teslacei ; alee anticce vitta postica fusca testaceo maculata ; alee 

 posticce cinerece. 



Female. Tawny. Fore part of the head whitish. Eyes brown, round, 

 prominent. Antennae brown, with numerous testaceous rings. Prothorax 

 finely rugulose, with two transverse impressed lines. Oviduct black, testa- 

 ceous towards the base, almost straight, rather longer than the abdomen. 

 Legs testaceous, moderately stout; spines with black tips; hind femora 

 about five-eighths of the length of the fore wings. Fore wings with a 

 brown stripe along the interior border, interrupted by pale testaceous spots ; 



