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veins very numerous, tawny and irregular for two-thirds of the 

 length from the base, yellow and regular from thence to the tips : 

 hjnd-wings pale gray, dark brown for more than one-third of the 

 length from the base, brown at the tip ; a blue spot on each near 

 the base ; veins dark brown. Length of the body 4^ lines; of the 

 wingfs 14 lines. 



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33. POIOCERA RUFIFASCIA, MaS. 



Nigra ,• caput et mesothorax flavo-fusca ; abdomen nigro vittatum 

 et fasciatum, laterihus ventreque jiavum ; pedes nigri ; tibice 

 Jlavo bifasciatce ; alee fuse ce ; alee anticiC rubra fasciatce, basi 

 subferruginete ; alee posticce apices versus limpidoe. 



Body black: head and middle-chest brown, somewhat tawny 

 along the borders : crown of the head surrounded by a ridge, and 

 having a small tubercle on each side of the disk ; face rather rugu- 

 lose, divided by a slight transverse ridge from the epistoma: mouth 

 dark brown, extending far beyond the hind-hips : middle-chest 

 somewhot rugulose : hind-chest black, ridged transversely and ob- 

 liquely: abdomen slightly obconical, broader but not longer than 

 the thorax, yellow above, and on each side beneath ; a longitudinal 

 ridge, and the hind border of each segment black : legs black, fur- 

 rowed ; two yellow bands on each shank; hind-shanks armed with 

 spines ; fore-wings brown, somewhat ferruginous and having green 

 veins towards the base, adorned with a slender crimson band, beyond 

 which is the reticulated part where the veins are brown : hind-wings 

 dark brown, adorned with sea-green or whitish veins, colourless to- 

 wards the tips whose borders are pale brown. Length of the body 

 6 lines; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



'- 34. POIOCEBA RUBRIVITTA, MaS. 



Nigro-fusca ; scutelli latera ferruginea ; abdomen vittis duabus rujis 

 nigro-maculatis ornatum ; pedes nigri ; alee anticce nigrce fulvo 

 maculata, basi rufce ; ala posticce fuscce, basi rufce, apice Lim- 

 pidcE. 



Body blackish -brown, finely rugulose : crown of the head very 

 short, surrounded by a ridge ; face parted from the epistoma bv a 

 distinct suture, having an indistinct longitudinal ridge : moiith 

 black, extending nearly to the tip of the abdomen : an indistinct 

 longitudinal ridge on the shield; scutcheon ferruginous on each 



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