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and beneath : legs ferruginous, spotted with yellow ; hind-thighs 

 yellow : fore-wings lurid, thickly punctured, narrow and conical to- 

 wards the tips which are almost pointed, brownish along part of the 

 fore border on each side of a large subquadrate whitish spot, which 

 is in the middle: hind-wings almost colourless : veins black, tawny 

 at the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



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8. Aphrophora compacta. 



Viridis ; thorax antice luteus ; scutellum Jlavum, apice nigrum ; 

 abdomen nigrum, hasi luteum ; pedes nigri ; ala antiae ferru- 

 ginea, macuiis duabus limpidis. 



Green, shining : head Intenus ; face black, with a very in- 

 distinct keel ; cross ridges on each side very distinct between the 

 eyes, gradually disappearing from thence to the epistoma : mouth 

 pitchy: antennae black; fourth joint pale: chest slightly rugulose, 

 luteous in front ; scutcheon yellow, transversely striated, with a 

 black tip ; abdomen black, luteous towards the base : oviduct ferru- 

 ginous : legs black, stout; knees tawny: fore-wings ferruginous, 

 with two large almost colourless spots in the disk, rather broad at 

 the tips ; hind border black along more than half the length I'rom 

 the base : hind-wings colourless ; veins black, pale yellow towards 

 the base. Length of the body 2| lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Va'ii Dieman's Land. Presented by the Eev. T. Ewing. 



b. "Van Dieman's Land. Presented by R. Butler, Esq. // 



9. Aphrophora carixia. 



Aphrophora carixia, White, MSS. 



Ferruginea; abdominis discus piceus ; pedes fulvi ; alee anticce 

 fulva, postica cinerece. 



Pale ferruginous, shining : head and chest roughly punctured, 

 with a very slight keel: disk of the head depressed on each side; 

 face very convex ; furrows on each side oblique and punctured : 

 back of the abdomen pitchy, excepting the sides and hind borders of 

 the segments : legs tawny : fore-wings tawny, thickly and rather 

 roughly punctured: hind-wings gray ; veins black, tawny towards 

 the base. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. ? Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



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