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veiy short in the middle, angular and much lengthened backward 

 on each side ; front blackish brown along the crown, having two 

 brown spots on each side where it is rounded, verj' slightly increasing 

 in breadth towards the epistoma ; its length hardly exceeds its 

 breadth ; its side ridges are high ; its middle ridge is very slight, and 

 disappears near the epistoma which is lanceolate and has three brown 

 stripes : fore-chest surrounded by a rim, and having a middle ridge, 

 concave on the hind border, truncate, conical in front and advancing 

 near to the fore border of the crown : middle-chest flat on the disk, 

 full four times the length of the fore-chest, with three slight ridges, 

 the side pair curved and united in front : abdomen obconical, not 

 longer than the chest: legs tawny: wings dark brown, very broad, 

 extending far beyond the tip of the abdomen ; tips of fore-wings 

 colourless ; veins dark brown, much ramified in the disk, extremely 

 numerous towards the tips; fore border dilated, convex, along it is 

 a row of oblique parallel cross-veins. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



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• " 5. Flatoides hdmeralis, Mas. 



Ferrugineus, suhtus Jlavo-alhus ; frons fusco varius, tricarinatiis ; 

 epistoma fusco trivittatum ; mesothorax tncarinatus ; pedes 

 fulvi ; alcE fusc(E, latissimcB ; alee anticce maculis quatuor lim- 

 pidis ornat(e. 



Body ferruginous, yellowish-white beneath : head nearly as broad 

 as the chest; crown somewhat rugose, surrounded by a rim, very 

 short in the middle, angular and much lengthened backward on each 

 side ; front brown along the crown, having two brown spots on each 

 side where it is rounded, hardly increasing in breadth towards the 

 epistoma ; its length scarcely exceeds its breadth : its side ridges are 

 high ; its middle ridge is very slight, and does not extend beyond 

 half the length from the crown ; epistoma lanceolate, with three 

 brown stripes : fore-chest surrounded by a rim, with a middle ridge 

 which does not extend to the fore border, slightly concave on the 

 hind border, truncate-conical in front, and advancing near to the fore 

 border of the crown : middle-chest with a flat disk, full four times 

 the length of the fore-chest, with three slight ridges, the side pair 

 curved and united in front: abdomen obconical, not longer than the 

 chest : legs tawny : wings brown, veiy broad, extending far beyond 

 the tip of the abdomen ; fore-wings adorned with four colourless 

 spots ; one on the disk, large, with three lobes ; second large, tri- 

 angular, on the fore border near the tip ; third narrow, extending 



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