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sometimes confluent ; a tawny slightly curved band separates this 

 part from the reticulated lips, which are brown witli tawny veins : 

 hind-wings green with numerous brown spots, gray mingled with 

 white towards the tips, white along the inner border. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Malabar Coast, Presented by T. Ward, Esq. 



^ Var. ? Flavo-fusca, subtiis riifi ; metathorax niger ; abdomen ru- 

 fum, nigra fasciatum ; pedes nlgri, femora rufa ; alec anticcB 

 flamdcc, fusco notatce ; apice Jlavo-fusca ; alee postica fits cce^ 

 maculis suhlimpidis varice. 



A recurved horn on the head : wings of moderate size ; fore- 

 wings not much longer than the hind-wings ; their tips obtuse. Body 

 yellowish-brown, red beneath : crown of the head slightly ridged and 

 furrowed; front rather prominent, furnished with a slender, black, 

 linear, furrowed horn which is inclined backward nearly to the hind 

 border of the shield : mouth ferruginous with a darker tip extend- 

 ing nearly to the tip of the abdomen : an excavation partly inclosing 

 the eye on each side of the front of the shield, the fore part of whose 

 side borders is black: hind-chest mostly black : abdomen red, nearly 

 elliptical, a little longer than the chest; a black band across each 

 segment above : legs black, furrowed ; thighs red ; hind-shanks 

 armed with spines: fore-wings pale dingy yellow, adorned with very 

 numerous brown marks; reticuhited })art yellowish -brown: hind- 

 wings brown, with many almost colourless spots which are partly 

 confluent ; hind border almost colourless ; tip pale brown. Length 

 of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. East India. 



^ 28. Aph^na torrida, Mas. 



Rufa, suhtus fiilva ; prothorax et scutum flavo bimaculata, hujus 

 discus nigricans; abdomen latcribus ventreque flavum ; pedes 

 rufi, tarsi nigri ; al(B fiavo-fuscce, basi rufce ; alee anticce fulvo 

 subvittatcB. 



Body red, tawny beneath : crown of the head surrounded by a 

 ridge, which is highest in front, and is imperfectly divided into two 

 compartments, the middle ridge not extending to the fore border ; 

 front with six longitudinal ridges, between which are many little 

 furrows: a longitudinal ridge on the e])istoma: mouth tawny with 

 a black tip extending far beyond the hind-hips: shield of the chest 

 transversely rugulose, deeply ridged in front and along the middle, 

 on each side of which it is concave and has a large yellow spot : 

 scutcheon much sculptured, blackish with two yellow spots in front : 



