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and are very slightly curved; keel impressed on each side behind 

 the horns, oblanceolate, very long, extending far beyond the tip of 

 the abdomen, black towards the tip, which is very acute : abdomen 

 luteous above, having on each side a broad black stripe, which is 

 interrupted on the hind border of each segment : legs tawny : fore- 

 wiugs brown, long and narrow ; veins yellow : hind-wings almost 

 colourless, gray along the hind borders ; veins black. Length of the 

 body 7 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Argent's collection. 



18. Hemiptycha lata, Fem. 



Nigra, luteo guttata; abdominis segmentormn margines postici 

 fuivi; al(B anticcB nigricantes, ad discos fuscce ; alte posticce 

 cinerecB. 



Black, shining: head and fore-chest very broad: head trans- 

 verse, short, irregularly triangular, finely striated, somewhat im- 

 pressed, narrower than the fore-chest ; hind border undulating ; 

 fore borders slightly concave, somewhat retuse ; face almost smooth ; 

 its hind border semicircular, much less than half the length of the 

 head: fore chest roughly punctured, adorned with luteous dots, 

 slightly impressed in front, very thick, anned on each shoulder with 

 a very stout, triangular, almost pointed horn, whose outer sides are 

 slightly concave and almost angular ; the keel behind the horns has 

 two longitudinal furrows, and between them the fore-chest is very 

 convex and much inclined ; on their outer sides it is nearly flat 

 and but slightly inclined ; opposite the last abdominal segment 

 it is much attenuated and compressed, and extends beyond the tip 

 of the abdomen, from which it slightly diverges : hind borders of 

 the abdominal segments tawny : fore-wings blackish ; their disks 

 brown : hind-wings gray ; veins black. Length of the body 5^ 

 lines ; of the wings 13^ lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Argent's collection. 



^19. Hemiptycha brevis, Mas. 



Nigra ; ventris segmentorum margines postice pedesque feiruginei ; 

 alee anticcefusccB, basi nigricantes ; ales postias subcinerece. 



Black, shining, short : head and fore-chest very broad : head 

 transverse, short, irregularly triangular, striated, impressed, narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; hind border undulating ; fore borders slightly 



