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"^ 20. Flatoides bifascia, Fem. 



Piceus^ liirhis^ lattts ; frons ferruginens, carinatus ; epistoma fer- 

 rugineum, lateribus piceum ; mesnthorax non carinatvs ; ptctus 

 et abdomen ferruginea ; pedes fuivi ; ala antica nigra, amplce, 

 albo bifasciata, ad costam subferruginea ; ales posticce fusecB 

 fascia basique limpidis. 



Body pitchy, hairy, broad and short : head nearly as broad as 

 the chest: crown straight, Aery short; front slightly tuberculate, 

 rounded and ferruginous on each side, not surrounded by a rim, not 

 narrower towards the epistoma, straight at the junction, wiih a slight 

 middle ridge, its breadth very nearly twice its length ; epistoma fer- 

 ruginous, triangular, pitchy on each side : mouth tawny : fore-chest 

 short, slightly arched : middle-chest not ridged : breast ferruginous : 

 abdomen ferruginous, obconical, not longer than the chest: legs 

 tawny : fore-wings black, very large, with two white bands ; veins 

 black, pale yellow on the bands ; longitudinal veins not numerous ; 

 cross-veins rather numerous towards the base : fore border very con- 

 vex, partly ferruginous, along it a row of parallel, slightly oblique 

 cross-veins : hind-wings brown, colourless towards the base, and 

 having near the tip a colourless band which is shortened towards the 

 fore border. Length of the body 1 f line ; of the wings 5 lines 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



O 21. Flatoides marginatus, Fem. 



Ferrugineus, granulatus ; frons piceus, glaber, lateribus ferrugi- 

 neis ; mesothorax non carinatus ; abdomen Iceve ; pedes fulvi ; 

 alee anticee latcB, ferruginece, apice oblique truncata, costa un- 

 dulata ; vitta sub costa fasciceque nonnullce fuscce ; vena lon- 

 gitudinales guttata ; ahe posticce subfusca. 



Body ferruginous, dull, finely granulated, broad, stout: head as 

 broad as the chest ; crown concave along the hind border, straight 

 in front, its length on each side nearly twice that in the middle ; 

 front pitchy, flat, shining, tawny and slightly concave where it joins 

 the epistoma, with a broad ferruginous border which is slightly im- 

 pressed, rounded on each side, not narrower towards the epistoma ; 

 its breadth much exceeding its length ; epistoma tawny, lanceolate : 

 fore-chest slightly concave behind, more convex in front, much 

 longer than the crown, its breadth near eight times its length : 

 middle-chest flat, not ridged, full four times the length of the fore- 

 chest ; abdomen obconical, smooth, shining, a little longer than the 



