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the segments luteous on each side beueath. Legs black. Fore 

 wings black, whitish green, with black spots for about one-third 

 from the base ; outline of the green part much excavated, with some 

 streaks of the same hue near it ; veins green. Hind wings bright 

 red, with black spots; apical part blackish brown, divided from the 

 red part by a bright greenish blue band, which does not extend to 

 ihe hind border. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 20 

 lines. 



a. Shanghai, North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



b. Hindoslan. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



V O APHiENA LECTISSIMA. 



Herbida; caput cornu brevi acuta suberecto, verticis lateribus carl- 

 natis, fronte facieque plants, hac subcarinata ; abdomen supra 

 testaceum; alee anlicce luridce, sublus rufce, maculis plurimis 

 viridibus atbo guttatis, margine viridi, gultis marginalibus 

 nigris, costalibus albis, posticis basalibus luteis ; poslica coc- 

 cine(e, apices versus virides. 



Grass-green. Head with a short acute almost vertical horn ; 

 sides of the vertex ridged; front and face flat, excepting a slight 

 keel on the latter. Abdomen testaceous above. Fore wings lurid, 

 red beneath, except towards the tips, adorned with many green 

 white-dotted spots; border green, adorned with dots of white tomen- 

 tuin along the costa, and with black dots elsewhere, except towards 

 the base of the interior border, where the dots are luteous. Hind 

 wings crimson for more than half the length from the base. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



Tha genus Aphcena may be divided into the following groups : 

 1st (type f ^4. submaculata, which seems to be distinct fromvl. auran- 

 iia), where the horn of the head extends horizontally to the protho- 

 rax : 2iicJ (type^vl. lectisshna), where the horn is almost vertical : 

 3rd (typl A. rosea), where the horn is almost obsolete, and which is 

 also distinguished from the two preceding groups by the much more 

 numerous veins and veinlets on the exterior part of the wings: 4th 

 (type ^A. imperialis), like the fourth group in the structure of 

 the head, but with the fore wings narrower, and with much fewer 

 veins and veinlets. 



a. North India. Presented by Mrs. Hawes, 



