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curved ridges, which converge near the fore border: hind-chest short, 

 with tawny transverse ridges : ai)domen tawny, nearly elliptical, a 

 little longer than the chest ; tip thickly clothed with white filaments; 

 sninresof the segments more or less pitchy: legs ferruginous, stout, 

 furrowed ; hind-shanks armed with broad spines : fore-wings ferru- 

 ginous, adorned with black marks which are various in size and 

 shape; reticulated part lawny, occupying more than one-third of the 

 surface, adorned with some black and colourless marks, the latter 

 chiefly on the borders ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings tawny, brown 

 towards the lips; veins brown. Length of the body 5^ lines; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 

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/S 14. EURVBRACHYS SERA, MaS. 



Ferruginea nigro varia ; metathorax falvus ; abdomen luteum ; pedes 

 ruji ; alee anticoe Jlavo-limpidcB, basi flavo-ficscce nigro varia 

 macula una limpida, apice fiavo-fuscce maculis duabus lim- 

 pidis ; alee posticce limpidce apice margineqv£ postico fuscce. 



Body ferruginous with blackish marks : head as broad as the 

 chest ; crown short, with numerous little longitudinal ridges, adorned 

 on each side with an indistinct tawny spot, slightly convex along 

 the fore border ; lace broad and flat, finely rugulose, spotted with 

 yellow, surrounded by a shallow ridge, and traversed on the disk 

 by a slight blackish ridge which has a notch in the middle ; epistoma 

 ferruginous, parted from the face by a concave suture : mouth tawny, 

 reaching the hind-hips: eyes rather large and prominent : shield of 

 the chest short, convex along the fore border, with a very indistinct 

 ridge proceeding from the hind border and shortly dividing into two 

 distinct curved ridges which join the fore border: three ridges on 

 the scutcheon, the side pair curved and more distinct than the middle 

 one : hind-chest tavvuy, ridged across : abdomen obconical, luteous, 

 longer than the chest, furnished at the tip with an apparatus which 

 consists of twelve appendages; the first is long, channelled, curved 

 downward for much more than half its length, and then emits aliltle 

 appendage above, and is amied with two teeth beneath ; it next in- 

 clines upward at a right angle and widens into an obconical deflexed 

 plate with a notch at its tip : the second and the third are a pair 

 which form two stout upright spines beneath the curve of the first : 

 the fourth and the fifth are another pair, which are more short and 

 obtuse and form right angles between the preceding pair and the 

 base of the first : at the tip beneath there are three pairs of various 

 length, which are inclined upward beneath the plate of the first : 



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