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with the exception of the tJDrders of the veins, from thence to the 

 tips ; a broad white band at one-third of the length : hind-wings 

 colourless ; veins tawny. Length of the body H line; of the wings 

 4 lines. 



Var. /3. Fore-wings brown towards the tips with the exception 

 of the fore border, and a few dots on the disks of the areolets. 



a, h. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club, 

 c, d. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 

 e. New Holland. 



u 7. Lepyronia brevis. 



Testacea; thorax ad discum piceiis ; scutelluvi flavo fasciatum ; 

 abdomen piceum ; pedes Jlavi, nigro fasciati ; alcd anticce 

 piceee, flavo semifasciateB, ad apices limpidcB. 



Testaceous, shining, short, broad : head and chest slightly convex : 

 head very short, as broad as the chest ; its length less than one- 

 fourth of its breadth ; face very convex and prominent, extending 

 beyond the crown, with about twelve very shallow, hardly oblique 

 cross ridges, the spaces between these are darker : mouth with a 

 pitchy tip, reaching the middle hips : chest finely striated across, 

 somewhat pitchy on the disk, bright yellow towards the tip of the 

 scutcheon : abdomen mostly pitchy, legs yellow, adorned excepting 

 the fore-thighs with black bands: lore-wings pitchy, convex, almost 

 elliptical, as if composed of two slightly convex parts, with a colour- 

 less spot near the middle of the fore border, almost colourless to- 

 wards the tips, with the exception of a pitchy spot, and with a short 

 bright yellow band extending from the hind border to the disk near 

 the base: hind-wings almost colourless; veins black. Length of 

 the body 1^ line ; of the wings 3 lines. 



a. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



^ S. Lepyronia ? Australia. 



Nigra, nitens ; caput fulvo varium ; pectus Jlavo bivittatum ; ab- 

 domen basi fulvum ; genua fulva ; alee anticce fulvce, nigro- 

 marginatce. 



Black, shining, short and thick : head short, partly tawny in * 

 front and behind, angular on the hind border, convex in front ; face 

 very convex, slightly keeled, having on each side about eight ridges 

 which are very distinct and not oblique : chest convex, transversely 



