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Fam. II. FULGORTNA. 



Subfam. I. FULGORELL.E. 



Tribe I. FULGORITES. 



^ Subiribe 1. FULGOROTDES. 



Genus HOTINUS, Cat. Horn. p. 265. 



V <- HOTINUS FULVIROSTRIS. 



Niger ; caput fuloum thorace paullo brevius ; prothorax lituris 

 marginalibus albidis aut testaceis ; meso thoracis discus plus 

 minusve testaceus aut albidas ; abdomen testaceum aut albidum, 

 fasciis incompletis nigricantibus ; alee anlicce fasciis quatuor 

 incompletes macular ibus albidis aut straminea ; postica basi 

 albidec. 



Black. Head tawny, abruptly curved and ascending, a little 

 shorter than the body, blackish on each side at the base. Prothorax 

 with some dingy whitish or testaceous marks on each side. Meso- 

 thorax more or less testaceous or whitish in the disk ; hind border 

 and abdomen whitish or testaceous, the latter with some irregular 

 and incomplete blackish bands. Fore wings with about twenty 

 whitish or straw-coloured spots and dots, some of them connected, 

 forming four very irregular bands. Hind wings white, or dingy 

 whitish towards the base. Length of the body 13 lines; of the 

 wings 28 lines. 



Hotinus may be diyjded into two groups, H. candelarius being 

 the type of the first, and H. clavatus the type of the second. The 

 first group will form two subgroups ; the first containing H. cande- 

 larius and others ; the second with H. maculatus and the present 

 species, which are distinguished by the much curved and ascending 

 horns of their heads and by the hind wiugs, where the pale colour 

 blends more or less with the black borders, whereas in the first sub- 

 group the orange and the black of the hind wiugs are clearly 

 defined. 



a, b. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



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