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<^ 13. OXYPLEURA CONTRACTA, MaS. 



Nervus transvei'sus lus fere rectm, valde obliquus, angulum valde 

 obtusum Jingens, 2o plus aexties ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, obliqtius, angulum obtusumjingens^ \o duplb lon- 

 gior ; 3ms siibcurvus, obliquus, angulum aculum fingens ; 4us 

 subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, So paullo 

 brevior. 



Second marginal areolet as long as the first : first cross-vein 

 almost straight, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by more than six times its length ; second very 

 slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, full twice the 

 length of the first ; third slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute 

 angle ; fourth very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a very 

 slightly acute angle, a little shorter than the third; fifth curved, 

 slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle. Body tawny, 

 shining, very short and broad, almost hairless : head much nar- 

 rower than the fore-chest ; very short ; region of the eyelets and 

 borders of the eyes black; tv/o black bands ac^'oss the crown; 

 face convex, not prominent, adorned with a black band above, and 

 with a black stripe in front : mouth tawny, v/ith a pitchy lip, reach- 

 ing the hind-hips : eyes rather large : feelers pitchy, with tawny 

 tips, black towards the base: scutcheon cf the fore-chest short, 

 adorned with three black spots in a row, one triangular near the 

 fore border, the second slender in the middle, the third transverse 

 on the hind border ; furrows blackish ; hind-scutcheon broad, very 

 slightly excavated in the middle of the hind border, forming a broad 

 rim to the scutcheon on each side, where it has a prominent and 

 and slightly obtuse angle : scutcheon of the middle-chest dark yellow- 

 ish brown, adorned with four black stripes, the middle pair short 

 and obconical, the outer pair oblique and much longer ; two black 

 spots near the hind border ; sides, cross-ridge and hind border 

 tawny, the latter very slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, 

 hardly longer than the chest ; a pitchy band on each segment ; tip 

 pitchy : opercula none ; drums pale tawny, very small, the space 

 between them equal to twice the breadth of each : legs tawny ; feet 

 and fore-shanks pitchy ; claws tawny, with black lips ; fore-thighs 

 armed with one black tooth of moderate size: wings long and nar- 

 row, indistinctly tinged with tawny, fore-wings tawny, and slightly 

 clouded here and there with brown towards the base ; cross-veins 

 more or less clouded with brown ; a row of pale brown spots near 

 the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets ; veins 

 tawny, black towards the tips ; hind-wings dark brown for more 



