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first; third very sliofhtly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much 

 shorter than the third : fifth curved, forming a very slightly acute 

 angle. Body pale huff: head nearly as broad as the fore-chest; 

 face very slightly convex: mouth pale huflf with a black tip extend- 

 ing to the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : feelers pitchy, buff" at the 

 base : fore-chest of equal breadth from the fore border to the hind 

 border ; hind-scutcheon widened, and nearly straight on each side ; 

 hind border of the scutcheon of the middle chest very slightly exca- 

 vated ; abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest : drums 

 very small, far apart : legs pale bufi"; claws black, tawny towards 

 the base ; fore-thighs armed with small teeth ; hind-shanks beset 

 with bufi" spines whose tips are black : wings whitish ; veins yellow ; 

 fore-wings bufi" along the fore border ; cross-veins clouded with 

 brown ; a row of brown dots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of 

 the marginal areolets. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 24 

 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



23. Platypleura steaminea, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus feri rectus^ subobliquus, angulum ohtu- 

 sum Jin gens ^ 2o sexties ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcut- 

 tms, obliquus, angulum perobtusum Jingens, \o fere Iriplb 

 longior; 'Susfere rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; 

 Aus fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, ^i lon- 

 gitudine. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein almost straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by six times its length ; second very 

 slightly curved, slanting, foiraing an extremely obtuse angle, nearly 

 thrice the length of the first ; third nearly straight, slanting, forming 

 a slightly acute angle; fourth nearly straight, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth slightly curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a slightly acute angle. Body straw-colour, 

 dull, short, broarl, thinly clothed with short white hairs; head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest : mouth pale tawny, with a black tip, 

 reaching the middle-hips : eyes prominent : feelers tawny, pitchy to- 

 wards the tips, straw-colour at the base : fore-chest not narrower before 

 than behind ; hind-scutcheon broad, its rim extending much beyond 

 the scutcheon, forming a very obtuse anole at the base of the fore- 

 wing, nearly straight on each side, rounded in front : hind border of 

 the scutcheon of the middle-chest slightly excavated : abdomen ob- 



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