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8. COLOBESTHES GUTTJFASCIA. 



Straminea ; mesothorax tricarinatus ; pedes straminei ; alcB lata ; 

 alee anticcB substraminece, ad apices guttis fjiscis trifnsciatcB, 

 margine postico uniguttaUey disco oblique fasciatce ; alee pas - 

 ticcB alba. 



Body straw-colour : head wanting : middle-chest with three 

 parallel ridges : abdomen wanting : legs pale straw-colour : wings 

 ample: fore-wings very pale straw-colour, with three irregular rows 

 of brown dots along their lips ; a larger dot on the hind border be- 

 yond the middle ; and an oblique band extending from the hind 

 border near the base to near the tip of the fore border, blactish- 

 brown at its base, afterwards tawny and very indistinct ; inner angles 

 slightly falcate ; veins pale straw-colour ; longitudinal veins very 

 numerous; cross-veins very few ; fore border very slightly convex, 

 along it a row of oblique parallel cross-veins of equal length : hind- 

 wings milk-white. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 18 

 lines. 

 a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



^9. CoLOBESTHES BIGUTTA, Fcm. 



FlavO'viridis, alba farinosa ; frons et prothorax carinati ; meso- 

 thorax bicarinatus ; pedes virides ; tarsi fulvi ; alee lata ; ala 

 antica albo-virides., jflavo aut rufo marginata, apice truncata 

 subfalcata, margine postico tiiberculata fusco-guttata ; ala 

 posticcB alba. 



Body yellowish-green, powdered with white : head narrower than 

 the chest, very short; crown very short, almost hidden by the fore- 

 chest ; front slightly increasing in breadth from the crown till near 

 the epistoma, bordered by a rim, not rounded on each side, straight 

 where it joins the epistoma, having a slight middle ridge which dis- 

 appears in the disk ; its length much exceeding its breadth : epistoma 

 lanceolate : feelers green : fore-chest conical above, slightly concave 

 along the hind border, bordered by a rim, having a distinct middle 

 ridge : middle-chest rather more than twice the length of the fore- 

 chest, with a middle green stripe, and on each side a slight ridge : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest : legs pale green, 

 powdered with white; feet tawny: wings ample ; fore-wings whitish- 

 green, truncate at the tips, slightly falcate at the inner angle, with a 

 brown dot on the hind border at two-thirds of the length ; fore border 

 pale yellow ; hind border tuberculate along half the length from the 

 base; veins green ; longitudinal veins rather numerous; cross-veins 



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