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the space between the eyelets ; face convex, adorned in front with 

 blackish bands on each side : mouth tawny, with a black tip reach- 

 ing- the hind hips : eyes not prominent: feelers dark tawny, black 

 at the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with a black stripe, 

 on each side of which there is a reversed C-shaped mark ; furrows 

 blackish ; hind-scutcheon widened on each side into a broad rim, 

 and forming a right angle, whose fore side is very slightly convex 

 and its hind side equally concave : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with two obconical brown stripes which proceed from the 

 border, and have a cross-shaped brown spot behind them, and a 

 large irregular brown mark on each side ; excavation on the hind 

 border of moderate depth: abdomen obconical, hardly longer than 

 the chest : drums very small, far apart : legs dark tawny ; feet and 

 tips of the shanks pitchy ; claws black, tawny atthebase ; fore-thighs 

 streaked with black, their teeth hardly rising above the surface : 

 wings colourless, adorned with six large spots, and with one short 

 broad stripe of a pale tawny hue clouded with brown ; three of the 

 spots are along the fore border, two in the disk on the cross-veins, 

 and one on the hind border ; the stripe occupies half the length of 

 the hind border from the tip, and contains three colourless circles ; 

 veins tawny, darker towards the tips. Length of the body 14 lines ; 

 of the wings 48 lines. 



a. Mexico. From Mr. Ai'gent's collection. 



^ 5. Zammara inteicata, Mas. 



Nervus transversii^ ]us subcurvus, ohliquus^ angulum valde obtu- 

 sum Jiugens, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcur- 

 vus, subobliquus, angulum. obtusum fingens^ \i dimidio paullb 

 longior ; 3vs fere rectus^ valde obliquus, angulum actitum 

 Jingens ; 4us stibcurvus, subobliquus, angulum vix acutimi 

 Jingens, 3o multo brevior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : first 

 cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, oblique, forming a very ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by thrice its length, second 

 very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 little more than half the length of the first ; third nearly straight, 

 very slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, 

 slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, much shorter 

 than the third; hind-vein of the fourth discoidal areolet forming an 

 acute angle, whence springs the fifth cross-vein, which is straight 

 and forms a slightly obtuse angle. Body black above, tawny be- 

 neath : head much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with eight 



