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the longitudinal vein towards the base of the fore side of the eighth 

 marginal areolet does not, as in other species, form an angle with 

 the fourth cross-vein but a continuous line. Body tawny : head 

 much narrower than the fore-chest ; crown adorned with a black 

 spot, on each side of which there are two black dots ; face very 

 slightly convex : mouth tawny, with a black tip, extending a little 

 beyond the hind borders of the drums : eyes not prominent: feel- 

 ers black, tawny at the base : fore-chest broadest near the fore bor- 

 der: scutcheon adorned with some oblique black marks on each 

 side, and in the middle with a slender black stripe which joins 

 a black mark on the fore border of the hind-scutcheon ; the latter is 

 widened and black, and forms an obtuse angle on each side: 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four large black marks, 

 the side pair obconical, the middle pair short, nearly round ; hind 

 border very slightly excavated ; abdomen obconical, not longer than 

 the chest, black at the base and on the fore borders of the segments : 

 opercula close, rather large : drums tawny, very large, slightly 

 overlapping, less than half the length of the abdomen : legs tawny, 

 clothed with paler hairs ; feet partly pitchy ; claws black ; fore-thighs 

 armed with very short black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with tawny 

 spines : wings brown, with a few colourless marks for half the 

 length from the base, colourless, with some brown marks from thence 

 to the tips ; fore border towards the base and veins reddish-tawny ; 

 hind-wings dark brown, with a colourless broad border, tawny at the 

 base ; flaps pale brown, with colourless borders. Length of the 

 body 8 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a, b. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



(HP 28. Platypleura gemina, Mas. 



NejTvus transversus lus rectus, ferS erectus, angulum suhohlusum 

 fingens, 2o plus decies ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subunda- 

 tus, valde obliquus, angulum perobtusum Jingens, lo plus octies 

 long 2 or ; 8us subundatiis, valde obliquusy angulum acutum 

 fingens^ 3i dimidio vix longior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first: first 

 cross-vein straight, almost upright, forming a very slightly obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by more than ten times its length ; 

 second very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, more than eight times the length of the first; third 

 slightly waved, very slanting, forming a very acute angle; fourth 

 very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an acute angle, hardly 

 more than half the length of the third ; fifth curved, upright, form- 



