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-^23 FiDIClNA LITERATA, MaS. 



Nervus transversus \us fere rectus, valdi obliqmis, angulum peroh- 

 tusum Jingens, 2o fere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 



fere rectus, valde ohliquus, angulum valde ohtusum fingens, 

 \o hrevior ; 3us undatus, subohliquus, angulum vix ohtusum 



fingens; 4us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutumfingens, 

 3i longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet full five-sixths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein almost straight, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by almost thrice its 

 length ; second almost straight, very slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, shorter than the first; third waved, slightly slanting, forming 

 a hardly obtuse angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a 

 very slightly acute angle, as lung as the third ; fifth slightly curved, 

 nearly upright, forming an almost right angle. Body black above, 

 pale tawny beneath: head a little narrower than the fore-chest, 

 adorned on each side of the face with a tawny band whose hind 

 border is much excavated ; on each side of the hind border there is 

 a tawny baud which is much notched, and ascends oq each side of 

 the eyelets ; face black, slightly convex, adorned with two black 

 spots, one in front, the other on the hind border: mouth tawny with 

 a pitchy tip reaching beyond the middle-hips : eyes not prominent : 

 feelers black : scutcheon of the middle-chest tawny with a black 

 hind border ; in the middle are two triangular black spots including 

 tawny spaces and communicating by their hind angles with the bor- 

 der ; hind-scutcheon tawny, having on each side a very shallow rim 

 which forms a very obtuse angle whose fore side is very slightly ex- 

 cavated and about twice the length of its hind side, the latter is very 

 slightly convex: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two 

 U-shaped tawny marks which communicate with two large tawny 

 spots whose inner sides are much excavated ; hind border tawny, 

 veiy slightly excavated in the middle where it has a short broad 

 tawny band which sends fourth two short oblique tawny branches 

 towards the spots above mentioned ; on each side of the latter are 

 two tawny spots, one small, the other large and close to the base of 

 the fore-wing: abdomen longer but not broader than the chest, some- 

 what ferruginous on each side, tinged with green towards the tip be- 

 neath : opercula rather large ; drums rather large, pale tawny tinged 

 with green, slightly overlapping, less than half the length of the ab- 

 domen : legs pale tawny : wings colourless, pale tawny with some 

 pitchy marks at the base ; veins pale tawny, ferruginous towards the 



