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^ 13. Flatoides stipatus, Fem. 



Ferrugineus ; from non carinatus ; prothorax carinatus ; meso- 

 thorax piceus, ejus carina seynicirculum Jingens ; pedes ferru- 

 ginei ; alee antica fusca, fulvo guttatcB, maculis duabus 

 sublimpidis ad costam ornatce ; alee posticce fulva, apicefuscce. 



Body ferruginous: head nearly as broad as the chest; crown 

 surrounded by a rim, slightly concave on the hind border, almost 

 straight in front; its length hardly one-eighth of its breadth ; front 

 broad, surrounded by a rim, not ridged, rounded on each side, rather 

 narrower towards the epistoraa, slightly concave where they join ; its 

 breadth lesss than twice its length ; epistoma triangular, not ridged: 

 fore-chest slightly arched, with a middle ridge, about twice the length 

 of the crown : middle-chest pitchy, with a semicircular ridge, which 

 proceeds from each side of the fore border into the disk : abdomen 

 obconical, a little longer than the chest : legs ferruginous : fore-^yings 

 brown, adorned with numerous tawny dots, several of which are 

 confluent in the disk ; two larger almost colourless spots on the fore 

 border, one beyond the middle, the other near the tip ; veins black- 

 ish, pale on the spots ; longitudinal veins very numerous ; cross- 

 veins few ; fore border very convex towards the base, where there is 

 a row of oblique parallel cross-veins : hind-wings tawny, brown to- 

 wards the tips. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



o. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



14. Flatoides mesochlobus, Fem. 



Fulvus; frons suhcarinatus ; epistoma non carinatum ; mesothorax 

 tricarinatus ; abdomen Jlavum,subtus viride ; pedes fulvi; alee 

 anticcs fusccB, disco virides, nigro-fusco decem-guttatce^ guttis 

 albis oblique fas ciatcB ; alcB poslicce fusco-cinerece, basi limpid^. 



Body tawny : head a little narrower than the chest ; crown ex- 

 tremely short ; iront nearly flat, surrounded by a slight rim, having 

 a very slight middle ridge, rounded on each side, hardly narrower 

 towards the epistoma, straight at the junction with the latter ; its 

 length slightly exceeding its breadth ; epistoma lanceolate, not 

 ridged : fore-chest convex in front, slightly concave on the hind 

 border: middle-chest about four times the length of the fore-chest, 

 with three very slight ridges: abdomen pale yellow, green beneath, 

 obconical, a little longer than the chest : legs pale tawny : wings of 

 moderate breadth ; fore-wings brown ; disk pale green, with about 

 ten blackish-brown dots ; beyond them is a slightly oblique row of 



