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]>itchy spot which incloses the eyelets, and on each side with two 

 larger ferrutrinous spots ; face convex, not prominent, ferruginous 

 above wilb the exception of a tawny triangular spot on the hind 

 border; mouth tawny with a pitchy tip extending to the hind 

 border of llie drums: eyes very prominent : feelers black : fore-chest 

 narrower before than behind; scutcheon adorned with four pitchy 

 stripes ; the middle pair widened on the lore border, sligbtly con- 

 verging tlience for iwo-thirds of the length, then diverging and 

 curved and including a spindle-shaped tawny spot ; furrows and 

 sides mostly pitchy; hind-scutcheon mostly green, narrow in the 

 middle, rounded much widened and adorned with two large pitchy 

 spots above the base of each fore-wing, slightly excavated and armed 

 with a very small tooth on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with five pitt-hy stripes and with two pitchy spots ; the mid- 

 dle stripe longer than the inner pair, whicli are slightly oblique ; 

 outer pair apparently obliterated with the exception of their hinder 

 part ; bind border very slightly excavated, with a pitchy streak on 

 each side: abdomen slightly obconical, rather less than twice the 

 length of the chest, adorned with a pitchy spot on each side of every 

 segment from the base to the tip which is pitchy : opercula ex- 

 tremely small, not covering the tymbals which are white with brown 

 bands and spots; drums very smuU, pale green, slightly overlapping : 

 legs tawny ; thighs tinged with green , claws black, tawny at the 

 base ; fore-thighs armed with three tawny teeth, two of moderate 

 size, one very small : wings narrow, colouiless, adorned with opaline 

 lustre: fore border tawny with the exception of a brown band ad- 

 joining the brand which is tawny ; veins tawny, adorned with black 

 bauds, partly ferruginous in the disk, black at the lips; first and 

 second cross-veins clouded with brown ; a row of brown spots on the 

 tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal ai"eolets ; primitive 

 areolet pale tawny ; fore-flaps dark tawny ; hind-flaps dark tawny 

 at the base, and for a short space along the hind border. Length 

 of the body 18 lines; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Cevlon. 



ly 30. DUNDLBIA NlCOMACHE, MaS. 



Nervus Iransversus \us curvus, subobliquus, angidum ohtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o quadriipib ejus hmgitudine divisus ; '2tts subcurvus, 

 subobliquus, angulum oblusian Jingens, lo paullb brevior ; 

 'Sus subundntiis, obliquus, angidum i^ix acutum fingens ; 4us 

 undatus angulum acuium Jiugens, 3o longior et obliquior. 



Second marginal areolet two-thirds of the length of the first ; 

 first cross-veiri curved, very slightly slanting, forming an obtuse an- 



