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shanks and hind-feet mostly black, the former armed with four stout 

 spines: fore-wings ferruginous, sprinkled with brown, adorned at 

 each tip with about fifteen brown dots, very convex on the fore border 

 near the base ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings brown, blackish-brown 

 towards the tips with an oblique white band. Length of the body 

 2h lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker 



^O^Q' EURYBRACHYS APICALIS, MaS. 



Ferruginea ; metathorax et abdomen rufa ; "pedes nigri rufo varii ; 

 tibice posticce pallide riifce ; alee anticce ferruginece, nigro gut- 

 tatce, apice nigrce ; alee posticce testacete, apice nigrce. 



Body ferruginous, short," broad : head nearly as broad as the 

 chest; crown slightly arched, flat, its breadth more than four times 

 its length ; a slight curved furrow accompanied with a row of im- 

 pressions along each side near the eye; front pitchy, slightly convex, 

 broader than long, angular on each side, convex where it joins the 

 episloma, very minutely and thickly striated ; epistoma darker, al- 

 most triangular, keeled and ferruginous towards the mouth : fore- 

 chest slightly convex on the fore border, straight behind, as long as 

 the crown, transversely semifusiform ; its breadth much more than 

 four limes its length : middle-chest almost triangular, much longer 

 than the fore-chest : hind-chest red : abdomen red, obconical, longer 

 than the chest ; tip tawny : legs black, very broad, slightly marked 

 with red ; hind-shanks pale red, armed with three stout teeth : fore- 

 wings ferruginous with some little black marks in the middle ; lips 

 black ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings testaceous with black tips ; 

 veins tawny. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Narth-w£&t*'CQast of New Holland. From M. Dring's collection. 



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27. EUEYBRACHYS BUFO, MaS. 



Nigra rufo varia ; abdomen subtus rufum ; pedes nigri^ rufo varii ; 

 femora et tibice postica rufa • alee anticcs nigra, apud mar- 

 ginem posticum ferruginets, ad costam albo jnaculatce, apice 

 maculis duabus limpidis ornatce. 



Body black, slightly varied with red, very short, broad and 

 thick : head as broad as the fore-chest : crown depressed, straight 

 in front, slightly concave on the hind border, bordered with red, with 

 a red spot on each side of the disk ; its breadth about six times its 

 length; front slightly rugulose, much broader than long, angular on 



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