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-'3. MoGANNiA rxDiCANs, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus transversus \us rectus, fere erectus, angulum vix ohtusum 

 Jingens, 2o plus duplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2tis subcurvus, 

 erectus, angulum suhobtusum Jingens, \o vix longior ; 3us 

 rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; Aus rectus, obliquus, 

 angtdutn rectum fingens, 3o brevior. 



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

 first : first cross-vein straight, nearly upright, forming a hardly ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, upright, forming a slightly 

 obtuse angle, hardly longer than the first ; third straight, slanting, 

 forming an acute angle ; fourth straight, slanting, forming a right 

 angle, shorter than the third ; fifth slightly curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming a slightly acute angle. 



Male. — Body bright red : head much narrower than the chest ; 

 face pointed, clothed with black hairs : mouth black, reaching the 

 middle hips : feelers yellow, black at the base : eyes rather promi- 

 nent : a very large dark ferruginous spot on each side of the fore- 

 chest ; scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with a broad, obeoni- 

 cal, oblique, black stripe on each side, whose border is black : breast 

 black : abdomen nearly elliptical, longer and broader than the 

 thorax, blackish towards the base ; a black horn on the tip : legs 

 black, hairy ; hips and four hinder thighs marked with red : wings co- 

 lourless, tawny at the base ; fore-wings adorned with a very broad 

 brown band which includes a v^ery irregular yellow band ; veins 

 yellow, tawny at the base. 



Fem. — Body nearly all black: a colourless spot on the base of 

 the brown band of the fore-wing. 



Length of the body 6 — 8 lines; of the wings 14 — 17 lines. 

 — Var. /3. Mas. Body very dark red. 



a, b. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



c. Hong Kong, China. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



4. MoGANNIA IGNIFERA, MaS. 



Nervus transversus lusfere rectus, suberectus, angulum subobtusum 

 fingens, 2o fere triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 suhobliquus, angulum obtusum fingens, \o vix longior; 3us 

 rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens; 4us subcurvus, 

 subobliquus, angulum rectum fingens, 3o vix brevior. 



Second marginal areolet full three-fourths of the length of the 

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



