90 Mil. F. WALKER ON IIOMOrTERA 



Male. Testaceous. Head with a broad transverse black- line, which is 

 broadest about the ocelli ; a black angular line on the front j face 

 with a middle black line, which is abbreviated towards the front, 

 and with black transverse streaks along each side. Prothorax with 

 two black lines, which diverge from each other, and are dilated to- 

 wards the fore border and towards the hind border ; a piceous lunule 

 on each side in the disk ; a piceous stripe on each side ; sutures 

 mostly black. Mesothorax black; two testaceous stripes, each of 

 which is narrow and lanceolate in front, and contains a black spot 

 near its hind end ; hind part testaceous, with a black mark on each 

 side. Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five 

 lines of piceous spots ; middle spot at the base black, large, lanceo- 

 late. Ventral opercula about two-thirds the length of the abdomen. 

 Tibiae piceous towards the tips ; tarsi piceous. Wings pellucid j 

 veins ochraceous, partly black ; an elongated blackish dot on the first 

 transverse vein, and another on the second ; a very small elongated 

 blackish dot on each of the seven marginal veins. Length of tlie 

 body 12 lines, of the wings 40 lines. 



Hab. Ternate. 



It resembles D. subajpicalis in the spot on the base of the ab- 

 domen ; but the markings of the mesothorax are very diflerent. 



17. DuNDUBiA PICTA. Foim. Ferruginca ; capite apud oculos nigri- 

 cante, vittis tribus viridibus, facie picea strigis fulvis transversis la- 

 teralibus J prothorace vittis tribus viridibus, vitta media latissima, vit- 

 tas duas nigras includente ; mesothorace guttis duabus nigricantibus, 

 strigis duabus plagisque duabus viridibus; abdomine vittis quatuor 

 piceis ; 0])erculis viridibus ; alls anticis striga obliqua angidosa, guttis 

 quatuor mediis guttisque submarginalibus fuscis, costa viridi. 



Female. Ferruginous. Head blackish about the eyes ; two irregular 

 green stripes ; a green stripe in front, interrupted on the face, w hich 

 is piceous and has transverse tawny streaks along each side. Pro- 

 thorax with a very broad green stripe, which is contracted in the 

 middle, and contains two black stripes ; these stripes are contracted 

 near the fore border and near the hind border, where they are much 

 dilated ; an oblique irregular green stripe on each side ; postscutel- 

 lum green. Mesothorax with a blackish dot on each side on the 

 fore border, between two green streaks; two green patches on the 

 hind border. Abdomen with four piceous stripes, of which the inner 

 jmir are very broad. Ventral opercula green. Legs green; fore 

 femora and posterior tibiae with piceous bands ; middle femora striped 

 with piceous; posterior tibiae piceous at each end; anterior tarsi 

 ])iceous. Wings pellucid ; a zigzag oblique dark-brown streak, which 

 mdudes the first, second, and third transverse veins ; fourth and fifth 

 transverse veins clouded with dark brown, as are also the veins at 



