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with two black slender stripes which slightly converge, but cease at 

 some distance from the hind border, where they are succeeded by 

 two black dots ; furrows and side borders pitchy ; hind-scutcheon 

 pale tawny, widened, rounded, and adorned with a black spot at the 

 base of each fore-wing, armed with a tooth on each side ; scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest dark tawny, adorned with five slender black 

 stripes ; the inner pair proceeding Irom the fore border, slightly ob- 

 lique, shorter and broader than the middle one ; the outer pair at 

 some distance from the fore border, slightly curved above ; near each 

 of them on the fore border are two black dots, and there are two black 

 dots near the cross-ridge ; hind border slightly excavated : abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest, ferruginous above, tawny at the 

 base, armed with a rather long horn which is pitchy towards the tip : 

 legs pale tawny ; claws black towards the tips ; fore-thighs armed 

 with three teeth, first and second rather large, first pale tawny, 

 second black, third black and small ; fore-feet and tips of the fore- 

 shanks pitchy : wings slightly tinged with tawny : fore border bright 

 tawny as far as the brand, dark tawny from thence to the tips ; veins 

 tawny, black towards the tips ; fore-fiaps tawny ; hind-flaps tawny 

 at ihe base and for a space along the hind border. Length of the 

 body 15 lines; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Philippine Islands. 



^39. DuNDUBiA Samia, Mas. 



Nervus transversus Jus curims, erectus, angulum fere rectum fin- 

 gens, 2ofere duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, erec- 

 tus, angulum subobtusum Jingens, lo pauLlb longior ; ^us sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; 4:us subcurvus. 

 obliquus, angulum fere rectum Jingens, 3o brevior. 



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

 first: first cross-vein curved, upright, forming a nearly right angle, 

 parted from the second by nearly twice its length ; second curved, 

 upright, forming a very slightly obtuse angle, a little longer than 

 the first ; third slightly curved, slanting, forming a very slightly 

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

 nearly right angle, shorter than the third; fifth straight, upright, 

 forming a right angle. Body green, tinged here and there with 

 tawny : head much narrower than the fore-chest, pitchy about the 

 eyelets, and with a pitchy streak on each side along the eye : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip reaching beyond the hind-hips : eyes promi- 

 nent : feelers tawny, scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with a 

 pale streak which is slightly widened in front and behind ; a pitchy 

 spot on each side ; hind-scutcheon narrow in the middle, slightly 



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