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with a strongly-marked keel; two blackish stripes on each side, each 

 including 1 an oblique yellow streak, each inner stripe also including an 

 anterior oblique yellow streak, these four streaks converging in the disk; 

 hind border elongated, forming a rounded angle. Hind femora with two 

 brown patches on each side. Hind tibiae red, with a whitish baud near the 

 base, their spines with black tips. Fore wings pale cinereous, with an 

 abbreviated very broad brown stripe which joins the costa and includes two 

 pellucid transverse patches with white veins; a pale brown subapical 

 patch ; costa very slightly rounded near the base. Hind wings pellucid, 

 with two interrupted brown bands, the second apical ; veins pale yellow, 

 black in the exterior part. Length of the body 9 10 lines ; expansion of 

 the fore wings 19 22 lines. 



a e. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 /. Cape. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



9. EPACROMIA? PRASINA. 



Foam. Viridis ; caput et prothorax albido univitlata ; caput brevius- 

 culum,fastigio conico, sulcis lateralibus linearibus ; prothorax nigro 

 bivitlalus, testaceo biplagiatus, margine postico producto angulato ; 

 femora postica intus nigro notata ; tibia posticce pallide testacece, 

 nigricanle bifasciatce ; al& anticte cinerece, striga costali basuli viridi, 

 villa nigricanle plagas duas sordide albidas includente ; alee posticcB 

 pallide cinerece. 



Female. Grass-green, testaceous beneath. Head and prothorax with 

 a whitish stripe. Head rather short ; tip of the front depressed, conical ; 

 lateral furrows linear ; front hardly oblique, with four diverging keels ; inner 

 keels more strongly marked than the outer pair, forming the usual ridge 

 between the sockets of the antennae. Antennae tawny, flattened. Pro- 

 thorax with two black stripes and with three slight keels; lateral keels 

 intersecting the black stripes, unusually approximating and angular in the 

 middle ; a testaceous transverse patch on each side ; hind border elongated, 

 angular. Pectus with a green oblique streak on each side. Abdomen 

 testaceous. Hind femora testaceous beneath, with some transverse black 

 marks on the inner side. Hiud tibiae pale testaceous, with two blackish 

 bands, as long as the hind femora. Fore wings cinereous, with a green 

 costal streak proceeding from the base, and with a blackish stripe which 

 includes two transverse dingy whitish patches. Hind wings pale cinereous. 

 Length of the body 1\ lines ; expansion of the fore wings 15 lines. 



This species differs somewhat from the typical Epacromia. It has an 

 affinity to Steuobothrus. 

 a. Cape Town. Presented by R. Trimen, Esq. 



10. EPACROMIA BEPLETA. 



Mas. Fulva ; caput nigro maculatum et septem strigatum, albido quadri- 

 strigatum, fastigio longi-conico, sulcis lateralibus latis triangulari- 

 bus, fronle nigro guttata ; antennae nigricantes, subplance, fulvo 

 fasciata ; prothorax brcvis, subtuberculalus, nigro quadrivittatus ; 

 pectus nigro maculatum, venter e gutlis nigris quadrilinealum ; femora 



