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51. Bythoscopus vi.\y\i^^ Barnston^MSS. 



Ferrugineits^ suhtus Jlavus ; scutum flavo marginatum; abdominis 

 dorsum luteum, segmentis alho fasciatis ; pedes flavi ; alee 

 anticcB subfulva, ad costam fiavo vittatce^ apice sublimpida ; 

 alee posticee albcs. 



Nearly allied to B. fiavicollis. Pale ferruginous, bright yel- 

 low beneath ; crown forming an edge which is very obtusely angu- 

 lar ; front with a broad short yellow band across the disk, on each 

 side of which there is a black dot: face pale ferruginous, roughly 

 punctured, almost smooth, having on each side a smooth convex 

 testaceous compartment: shield finely transversely striated, with 

 yellow borders ; scutcheon minutely punctured : back of the abdo- 

 men luteous ; hind borders of the segments white : legs bright yel- 

 low : fore-wings slightly tawny, almost colourless towards the tips, 

 with a yellow stripe tapering along the fore border from the base to 

 two-thirds of the length : hind-wings white. Length of the body 2 

 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a — c. Hudson's Bay. Presented by G. Barnston, Esq. 



Oo2. Bythoscopus aueoalbus. 



Albus, auro varius ; scutellum fusco quadriguttatum ; abdomen 

 fasciis maculisque fuscis trivittatum ; pedes fusco notati ; 

 alee anticm auro bifasciatee ; alee posticee albee. 



White: head and chest adorned with gold markings, which oc- 

 cupy most of the surface : head short, as broad as the chest, almost 

 angular in front, concave along the hind border ; crown flat, a little 

 shorter on each side than in the middle, where its length is about 

 one-third of its breadth; face almost oval; epistoma subquadrate : 

 shield very convex along the fore border, almost straight behind ; 

 scutcheon with a slight transverse suture near the tip, and with two 

 brown dots on each side : abdomen with a row of short pale brown 

 bands on the disk, and with a row of pale brown spots along each 

 side : legs slightly marked with pale brown : fore-wings adorned 

 with gold net-work and with two irregular gold bands ; three brown 

 dots on the fore border near the tip, one on the hind border, and one 

 in the disk near the base: hind wings white. Length of the body 

 1| line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



