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one on the tip near the fore border ; the fifth which is larger on the 

 tip near the hind border, including a small brown spot ; a row of 

 colourless dots along the tips of the four wings; veins blackish, pale 

 on the spots ; longitudinal veins very numerous ; cross-veins rather 

 numerous; fore border dilated near the base where there is a row of 

 oblique parallel cross-veins. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



a, 6. ? 



^ 9. Flatoides guttatus, Mas. 



Niger ; frons tricarinatus ; epistoma carinatum ; prothorax ferru- 

 gineus, carinatus ; mesothorax quinque-carinatus ; pedes fulvi ; 

 femora picea ; alee nigro-fusca, amplce, apice guttis limpidis 

 fasciatce ; alee anticce maculis trihus limpidis omata. 



Body black: head as broad as the fore-chest; crown pitchy 

 surrounded by a rim, slightly coucave on the hind border, straight 

 in front ; its length not one-eighth of its breadth ; front broad, dark 

 ferruginous, rounded on each side, not narrower in front, very slightly 

 concave where it joins the epistoma, surrounded by a rim, and having 

 three slight ridges ; its breadth far exceeding its length ; epistoma 

 triangular, with a middle ridge : fore-chest ferruginous, with a 

 middle ridge, slightly arched, about twice the length of the crown : 

 middle-chest about five times the length of the fore-chest, with five 

 ridges; the inner pair near the middle one, diverging towards the 

 middle, beyond which they do not extend ; outer pair curved, and 

 including a somewhat flat and almost elliptical compartment : ab- 

 domen obconical, hardly longer than the chest : legs tawny ; thighs 

 pitchy : wings blackish-brown, ample : fore-wings adorned with three 

 colourless spots ; one on the disk, round ; the second larger, almost 

 triangular, on the foie border near the tip ; third as large as the first, 

 on the tip near the fore border; a row of colourless dots along the 

 tips of the four wings; veins blackish, pale on the spots; longi- 

 tudinal veins very numerous; cross-veins rather numerous; fore 

 border dilated near the base where there is a row of oblique parallel 

 cross-veins. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Hong-Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



