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21. MONECPHORA VITTATA. 



Picea, ferruqineo varia ; pectus testaceum ; abdomen ferrugineum ; 

 pedes testacei ; tarsi nigri ; alee anticcs Jiavce, angustce, fusco 

 quadrivittatcB^ apice fusco maculatce. 



Pitchy, partly ferruginous : head and chest almost flat, very 

 finely punctured : face prominent, very convex ; keel slight ; cross 

 ridges oblique, rather indistinct : mouth testaceous, with a black 

 tip: antennae black; fourth joint tawny : breast testaceous: abdo- 

 men ferruginous : legs testaceous ; feet and tips of anterior shanks 

 black; hind feet testaceous at the base: fore-wingsyellow, long and 

 narrow, with four irregular, partly united brown stripes : a row of 

 angular brown spots along each tip : hind-wings almost colourless, 

 pale brown at the tips and along the hind borders. Length of the 

 body 3i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. South America. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



*-^ 22. MONECPHOEA OENATA. 



Fusca ; caput siihtus et pectus lutea, hoc nigro maculatum ; thorax 

 Jlavo hifasciaius ; abdomen rufum, subtus luteum ; pedes lutein 

 tarsis nigris ; alee anticce Jlavo trimaculatce. 



Brown : head and chest slightly shining, very finely punctured : 

 head luteous beneath ; face very convex ; no keel, but a smooth, flat 

 stripe between the ridges, which are oblique and indistinct : mouth 

 luteous, with a pitchy band and tip : antennae black ; fourth joint 

 tawny, accompanied by a shorter bristle : two broad, bright yellow 

 bands on the chest, one along the fore border, the other near the 

 tip : breast luteous, with a very large transverse subquadrate black 

 spot: abdomen red, luteous beneath : legs luteous; knees, feet, and 

 tips of shanks black : fore-wings adorned with three pale yellow 

 spots; one at the base, nearly round; second long, extending in a 

 slightly oblique direction from the fore border to beyond the mid- 

 dle ; third almost round, on the fore border near the tip : hind- 

 wings nearly colourless ; flaps pale brown ; veins brown. Length 

 of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Brazil. 



