LIST OF UOMOPTEKOUS INSHCTS. 813 



ihe chest, slightly arclied, short-conical in front, rounded on each 

 side, very slightly concave ou the hind liorder, with a slight middle 

 ridge; its length a little more than half its breadth ; underside viith 

 a whitish middle ridge : shield very slightly convex in front, with 

 live very slight ridges, the middle one indistinct and very short ; 

 hind border concave in the middle, convex on each side ; scutcheon 

 depressed on tlie disk, pitchy and slightly gibbous towards the tip : 

 abdomen with a red band on the hind border of each segment : 

 shanks with pitchy tubercles, slightly widened : fore-wings whitish, 

 slightly testaceous rewards the base ; veins pale ferruginous, nodose, 

 partly pitchy ; fore borders rounded towards the tips : hind-wings 

 colourless. Length of the body 8i lines; of the wings 17 lines. 

 a. East Indies. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



Group 3. Head long, somewliat keeled. 



8. Lediu caudata. 



Ferruginea, nigra tuberculata, subtns iestacea nigra varia ; scutum 

 convexum,rugnsum ; scutellum apice conve;vum,fulvumet nigra 

 bimttalum ; abdomen ferruginea fasciatum ; km. apice cauda- 

 tum ; pedes testacei, nigra varii ; alte anlicce piceo-hirida ; alee 

 pastitte fuscte. 



Ferruginous: head and chest thickly covered with very small 

 black tubercles : head short-conical, as broad as the chest, very 

 slightly arched, very concave along the hind border, convex on each 

 side, with a very slight middle ridge; its length about half its 

 breadth ; underside black on each side of the disk of the fore part ; 

 face testaceous, streaked with black towards the epistoma, which is 

 black: shield flat in front, convex, rugose and pitchy behind, short 

 on each side, very convex on the fore border, concave in the middle 

 and convex on each side of the hind border ; scutcheon flat, tawny, 

 convex, and with a black stripe on each side towards the tip : breast 

 testaceous ; disk mostly black : abdomen black ; hind borders of the 

 segments ferruginous; underside with ferruginous dots on each 

 side ; the ferruginous hue is predominant towards the tip ; caudal 

 appendages compressed, as long as the abdomen : legs testaceous, 

 varied with black : fore-wings pitchy ; arcolets mostly lurid, with 

 pitchy spots along the fore border and at the tip ; fore border con- 

 vex towards the tip : hind-wings brown. Length of the body 124 

 lines; of the wings 17 lines. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



