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partly inflated at the base and along the hind border, near whose 

 base there are a few rows of little tubercles ; reticulated part occu- 

 pying full one-third of the wing ; fore border slightly convex, not 

 dilated ; a row of numerous short parallel branch-veins between it 

 and the first longitudinal vein; veins ferruginous: hind-wings 

 grayish. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. India. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



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14. Elidipteba rufescens, Fem. 



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Ferruginea, piceo varia ; thoracis discus piceus, fulvo hivittatus^ 

 abdomen subtus fulvum vel luteum ; pedes fulvi, fusco vittatce ; 

 alee anticce fulvce^ rufo venoscs, nigra viltatce ; alee posticcB sub- 

 fuscce. 



Body short, broad, ferruginous, partly pitchy : head narrow, 

 about one-fourth of the breadth of the fore-wing ; crown very small, 

 nearly square, rather broader towards the fore-chest, with a tawny 

 ridge on each side and in front ; front very long and narrow, with a 

 tawny border and two slight longitudinal ridges, and having a black 

 spot on each side by the crown, whence it very slightly widens to the 

 epistoma; its length about six times its breadth, the fore part form- 

 ing right angles with the sides which are tawny ; epistoma lanceolate, 

 tawny, black towards the tip, full half the length of the front: mouth 

 tawny, reaching the hind-hips : eyes rather large and prominent : fore- 

 chest'longerthan the crown, nearly conical in the middle, very concave 

 on eachside for the reception of the eyes, almost black, its border tawny 

 and slightly ridged : middle-chest triangular, longer than the fore- 

 chest, its disk pitchy with the exception of two tawny stripes : abdo- 

 men obconical, a little longer than the chest, more or less tawny or 

 luteous beneath : legs tawny, striped with brown, grooved, rather 

 broad ; hind-shanks armed with two teeth towards the tips : fore- 

 wings tawny, very broad, with a black stripe along the fore- 

 membrane, which is brown convex and broad ; veins red, brown 

 along the fore border, where they are parallel as in other species ; 

 cross-veins numerous towards the tips : hind-wings pale brown. 

 Length of the body \\ — 2 lines; of the wings 4 — 5 lines. 



a, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



^0 15. Elidipteba? tbistibops. 



^Tristirops, Amyot, Ann. Sac. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, v. 161, 383. 

 South France. ? 



