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Spot on the tip ; under side adorned with a broad pitchy band : oper- 

 cula large, close, pale tawny ; drums large, pale tawny, less than 

 half the length of the abdomen, blackish on the inner side where 

 they slightly overlap, black also on the outer border : legs pale tawny ; 

 thighs ferruginous towards the base ; claws black; fore and middle- 

 shanks and feet ferruginous : fore-thighs armed with three black 

 teeth, one of which is very small : wings colourless, pale tawny and 

 marked with black at the base; veins tawny, black towards the tips 

 and along the hind border; fore border pale tawny for more than 

 half its length, pitchy from thence till near the tip ; fore borders of 

 the flaps pale tawny. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 

 38 lines. 



a. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



<^ 32. FiDiciNA ocHRACEA, Mas. 



Nervtis transversus lus rectus, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o quinquies ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us rectus, obli- 

 quus, angulum valde obtusum fingens, \o paxdlb longior ; 3m5 

 fere rectus, subobliquus, angulum rectum fingens ; 4us vice un- 

 datus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : first cross- 

 vein straight, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted from 

 the second by full five times its length ; second straight, slanting, 

 foiTuing a very obtuse angle, a little longer than the first; third 

 nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming a right angle; fourth in- 

 distinctly waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much longer 

 than the third ; fifth indistinctly curved, nearly upright, forming a 

 very slightly obtuse angle. Body ochreous: head full as broad as 

 the fore-chest ; a black band across the front, wider on each side than 

 on the face which is convex and almost angular, but hardly promi- 

 nent : mouth tawny with a hlack tip, reaching beyond the middle- 

 hips: eyes prominent : feelers tawny at the base: fore-chest rather 

 short ; hind-scutcheon slightly excavated on the hind border, rounded 

 at the base of the fore wing, a little indented on each side : scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest slightly mottled with paler colour, hardlv 

 excavated on the hind border : abdomen obconical, a little longer 

 than the chest: opercula none ; tymbals tawny, very small ; drums 

 very small, tawny, the distance between them equal to twice the 

 breadth of each : legs tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs 

 armed with two long tawny teeth whose tips are pitchy : wings colour- 

 less ; fore borders and veins ochreous ; fore-membranes tawny ; flaps 



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