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31. DUNDUBIA TIGRINA, MaS. 



Nervus transversus ]us rectus, valde nbliquus, angulum suhacutum 

 Jingens^ 2o sexties ejus longitudine divisus ; '2us siibimdatus, 

 obliquus, augnlum perobtusum fingeus, ]o duplb longinr ; 3us 

 undatus, valde obliqmis, angulum acutuni Jiugens ; Aus vix 

 curvus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens, So multo 

 brevier. 



Second marginal areolet about two-thirds of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein straight, very slanting, forming a slightly acute 

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

 very slightly waved, slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, 

 full twice the length of ihe first ; third waved, very slanting, form- 

 ing an acute angle ; fourth hardly curved, very slanting, forming 

 an acute angle, much shorter than the third ; fifth nearly straight, 

 almost upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. Body tawny, 

 nearly linear, clothed with pale silky down : head narrower than 

 the fore-chest, with a slight ferruginous tinge above ; crown adorned 

 with four black stripes, middle pair close together, partly united 

 between the eyelets ; side pair nearly round on proceeding from 

 the base of the feelers, thence narrower and slightly curved ; face 

 convex, not prominent, adorned with a bhick band on each side : 

 mouth tawny with a black tip, extending a little beyond the hind- 

 hips : eyes prominent : feelers black : fore-chest narrower before 

 than behind; scutcheon adorned with four black stripes, the middle 

 pair slightly converging from the fore border to the hind border, the 

 outer pair more oblique ; hind-scutcheon very narrow in the middle, 

 adorned with a black spot and very much widened above the base of 

 each fore-wing, slightly excavated and armed with a short tooth on 

 each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with five slender 

 black stripes ; middle one entire, inner pair much interrupted, outer 

 pair slightly interrupted ; hind border very slightly excavated : ab- 

 domen slightly obconical, ferruginous above, much longer than the 

 chest; hind borders of the segments pitchy; under side tawny, 

 pitchy at the base and at the tip : opercula tawny, close ; drums 

 black, small, far apart, the outer border tawny : legs tawny ; thighs 

 striped with black; tips of the shanks pitchy; claws black, ferrugi- 

 nous at the base; fore-leet and middle-feet black ; hind-feet ferru- 

 ginous; fore-thighs armed with three black teeth, two long-, one 

 small : wings colourless-, lonir, narrow ; fove border bright ferrugmous 

 as far as the brand, pitchy from thence to the lip ; veins black, fer- 

 ruginous towards the base ; first and second cross-veins clouded with 

 brown ; a row of brown spots along the tips of the veins of the 

 marginal areolets, the spots with the exception of the first and the 



