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gate triangular. Prothorax much arched in front, with three keels, 
the lateral pair very oblique. Mesothorax with three keels. Wings 
vitreous; veins black, testaceous at the base. Fore wings with 
a broad blackish brown border, which is much paler towards the 
base, and contains a vitreous spot at two-thirds of the length of 
the costa; disk with three interrupted and very irregular brown 
bands. Hind wings with a brown border, which is somewhat paler 
and narrower than that of the fore wings. Length of the body 24 
lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
a. Moreton Bay. Presented by — Gibbons, Esq. 
FLATOIDES APERIENS. 
Niger, obscurus ; vertex brevissimus; frons plana, subtransversa, 
subtuberculata, carinis tribus indistinctis, lateribus piceis ; 
prothorax subarcuatus, unicarinatus ; mesothorax tricari- 
natus ; pedes picei; ale antice anthracine, fasciis duabus 
nitentibus chalybeo-nigris, punctis marginalibus, macula cos- 
tali guttisque exterioribus discalibus albis, venis ex parte 
ferrugineis ; postice cinereo-vitree, nigro late marginate. 
Var.—Caput et thoraw rufescente-ferruginea ; pedes antici 
lestacet ; antice venis basi testaceis, striga lata transversa sub- 
Susiformi alba, 
Black, dull. Vertex very short, almost hidden by the protho- 
rax; front flat, a little broader than long, very minutely tuberculate, 
with three indistinct keels; borders piceous. Prothorax slightly 
arched, with one keel. Mesothorax with three keels. Legs 
Piceous. Fore wings coal-black, with two shining chalybeous-black 
bands, with whitish points along the costa and along the exterior 
border, with a white costal spot, and with two exterior white discal 
dots ; veins partly ferruginous. Hind wings grayish vitreous, with 
ae black borders. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 6 
ines. 
Var. Head and thorax reddish ferruginous. Fore legs testa- 
ceous. Fore wings with the veins mostly testaceous towards the 
base; a large transverse subfusiform white streak with white veins 
mstead of the interior discal dot. Length of the body 3 lines; of 
the wings 8 lines. 
4,b, Niuai, Fejee Islands. 
