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almost conical in front ; its length about half its breadth ; a tawny 

 band along the fore border, interrupted in the middle ; face tawny, 

 convex, pitchy towards the epistoma ; with a flat middle stripe, on 

 each side of which are seven oblique, slightly curved, very shallow 

 cross ridges ; epistoma pitchy : mouth tawny, reaching the middle 

 hips : the breast tawny, with a pitchy disk : abdomen with a purple 

 tinge above ; hind borders of the segments yellow beneath : legs 

 tawny ; tips of the feet brown : fore-wings dark brown ; a short 

 colourless stripe on the fore border at one-third of the length ; a 

 large angular colourless spot on the fore border near the tip ; ad- 

 joining it there is a smaller tawny spot, and beneath it a bright red 

 band, which extends from it to the hind border ; two colourless spots, 

 one of thera very small, are nearer the tip, close to which there is a 

 tawny band : hind-wings pale brownish gray ; veins black, tawny at 

 the base. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a, b. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Wood and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



30. Ptyelus simulans. 



Testaceus ; caput piceo quadrivittatum, subtus Jlaimm ; thorax 

 piceo novem-vitiatus ; pectus nigro fasciatuin ; pedes fulvi ; 

 alcBanticce ad costam sublimpidce, fusco vittatcB. 



Testaceous : head and chest flat, very minutely punctured, 

 covered with tawny down : head concave along the hind border, 

 almost conical in front, with four slender, indistinct, interrupted 

 pitchy stripes ; its length less than half its breadth ; face yellow, 

 slightly convex, with a pitchy disk, and towards the front with a 

 black border ; on each side are ten very oblique cross ridges ; epi- 

 stoma tawny : mouth pitchy, tawny towards the base : chest with 

 nine indistinct slender pitchy stripes : breast with a broad black 

 band between the fore hips and the middle hips, and w^ith a short 

 pitchy stripe on each side: legs tawny ; knees yellow ; tips of the 

 feet pitchy : fore- wings almost colourless along the fore border, with 

 the exception of two large brown marks ; one at the base ; the other 

 beyond half the length, sending forth two irregular diffused and in- 

 terrupted branches, one extending towards the base, the other to 

 the tip: hind-wings colourless; veins brown, tawny towards the 

 base. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



