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two slightly oblique stripes which are composed of little brown 

 marks various in size and in shape ; hind border hardly excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest : oper- 

 cula none ; tymbals large, pale ferru^nnous ; drums tawny, ex- 

 tremely small : legs tawny ; feet darker ; tips of the claws black ; 

 fore-thighs armed with two stout tawny teeth : wings colourless, 

 rather long, very narrow, with a very slight tawny tinge at the tips 

 and along the hind border of the fore-wings ; fore border tawny 

 with a short brown stripe beneath at the base ; veins tawny, black 

 towards the tips ; a slight brown stripe along the hind border; fore- 

 flaps red; hind-flaps colourless, tawny at the base and along the 

 fore border and hind border. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 22 lines. 



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6. Cephaloxvs concolor, Fern. 



NeiTus iransversus \us fere rectus^ suberectus, angulum suhohtu- 

 sumfingens, lo fere sexties ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us fere 

 rectus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum fingens, lo longior ; 

 Zus fere rectus, nbliquus, angulum subacutum fingens ; 4us 

 fere rectus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fingens, 3o paulld 

 longior. 



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

 first : first cross-vein nearly straight, almost upright, forming a 

 slightly obtuse angle, parted from the second by near six times its 

 length ; second nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, longer than the first ; third very nearly straight, slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slanting, forming 

 a slightly acute angle, a little longer than the third; fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a right angle. Body rather pale red : head 

 small, narrower than the chest ; face convex, compressed, very pro- 

 minent : mouth tawny with a black tip : feelers black : fore-chest 

 narrower in front; hind-scutcheon narrow abuve, broader on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle-chest nearly smooth with the excep- 

 tion of the furrow on the hind border which is very slightly exca- 

 vated : a broad whitish stripe on each side of the breast : abdomen 

 very slightly obconical, about twice the length of the chest, adorned 

 beneath with two rows of black spots : oviduct dark ferruginous with 

 a black tip : legs tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed 

 with three teeth whose tips are black : wings and their flaps colour- 

 less; veins and fore border very pale red. Length of the body 13 

 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



