708 LIST OF IIO.MOPTEKOUS INSECTS. 



convex, finely transversely striated : mouth ferruginous with a black 

 tip: scutcheon pitchy towards the tip, which is tawny: abdomen 

 black with a tawny tip : lejrs pitchy; knees and hind-legs tawny; 

 hind-thighs pitchy ; tipsol'hind-shanks andofhiiid-l'ect black : fore- 

 wings pale brown, narrow and conical towards the lips, pale yellow 

 along part of the fore border : hind-wings almost colourless ; their 

 tips very slightly tinged with brown ; veins black tawny towards the 

 base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



14. PtYELUS OrELLIGER. 



Ferrvgineus ; thorax piceus ; alie anticte fiavo-fvscie, mamlis 6 

 albidis nigra circumdatis omat/e. 



Ferruginous, shining : head above flat, blackish, thickly 

 punctured, almost conical in front, hardly concave along the hind 

 border ; face very convex, short, smooth, with indistinct cross ridges 

 on each side : mouth pitchy towards the tip : chest pitchy, trans- 

 versely rugulose : tips of the shanks and of the feet black ; fore- 

 wings yellowish-brown, adorned with five whitish spots, which are 

 mostly encircled with black, three at one-third, and three at two- 

 ihirds of the length, two on the fore border, and four near the hind 

 border ; a blackish oblong spot on the hind border close to the tip : 

 hind-wings slightly gray, pale brown at the tips and along the hind 

 borders ; veins black, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 

 4i lines; of the wings 11 lines. 

 a. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



15. Ptyelds discifer. 



Testaceus ; abdomen fernigineum ; alec antica feirugineai maculis 

 duabus limpidis duabmque fuscis ad costam ornatte. 



Testaceous, shining : head and chest flat, finely punctured : 

 head conical in front, concave along the hind border, smooth be- 

 neath ; face very slightly convex, flat on the disk; cross ridges on 

 each side oblique, indistinct ; epistoma slightly keeled : mouth fer- 

 ruginous with a pitchy tip: chest minutely rugulose: abdomen fer- 

 ruginous: fore-wings ferrnginous, with four large subquadrate spots 

 on the fore border, two whitish and two brown ; disks of the areolets 

 more or less whitish: hind-wings colourless, very slightly tinged 



