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pale brown towards the tips and along the hind border ; veins pale 

 straw-colour. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



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12. Elidiptera Guiana, Fem. 



Fulva^ subtus albo farinosa ; thoracis discus fuscus ; abdomen lu- 

 teum ; pedes fulvi ; alee anticee siibfulvie, fusco guttatCB^ basi 

 subtuberculata, apice albidce, ad costam dilatatcc ; alee posticce 

 albida, apice subfusca. 



Body tawny, powdered with white beneath : head and fore-chest 

 wanting : middle-chest marked with brown which occupies most of 

 its disk: abdomen luteoiis, obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 partly brown at the tip: legs tawny, slightly grooved, rather broad ; 

 hind-shanks armed with two black-tipped spines: wings broad, 

 powdered with white : fore-wings pale tawny, whitish towards the 

 tips, slightly tuberciilate near the base, adorned with some brown 

 dots which are mostly near the fore border, this is much dilated and 

 very convex near the base and is furnished with very numerous 

 nearly parallel branch veins ; veins tawny : hind-wings whitish, 

 iridescent, tinged with very pale brown towards the tips and along 

 the hind Ijorder ; veins pale tawny. Length of the body 3^ lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgck. 



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13. Elidiptera ferruginea, Mas. 



Fulva; caput Jiavo maculatum ; inesothoracis discus piceus ; pedes 

 fulvi ; alcB basi siibinfiatce , ad costam subconvexes non dila- 

 tatcB ; alee posticts subcinerece. 



Body tawny: head much narrower than the chest; its two seg- 

 ments divided by a suture which forms an angle towards the hind 

 border ; hind segment yellow, pitchy on the disk, its back forming a 

 right angle with each side on which the eye is seated ; fore segment 

 pitchy, rounded in front ; front rather broad, rounded on each side, 

 pitchy next the crown : mouth tawny, reaching the hind-hips : an- 

 tennae ferruginous, rather short ; second joint near twice the length 

 of the first : fore-chest as long as the head, very finely rugulose, 

 somewhat truncated in front, slightly concave on the hind border: 

 disk of the middle-chest pilchy : abdomen obconical, not longer 

 than the chest : legs tawny, grooved, rather broad ; a tooth on each 

 hind-shank near the tip : fore-wings ferruginous, darker at the tips, 



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