LIST OF llOMOriKROUS INSKOTS. 



11. Platyi'leuiu sionifera, Mas. 



Nermts Iransversus lus subcurvus, vaU^ nbliquus, angulum %mldi 

 oblusum Jingens, 2n ejus longitudine quadruplli diiisus ; 2u.i 

 subcurvus, valde ohliquus, angulum vahU obtusum Jingens, \o 

 mullb longinr ; .3ws subundalus, valdi obtiqmis, angulum acu- 

 tum Jingens ; 4ms subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum 

 jingens, 3o paullb breiiior. 

 Second marginal areolet full live-sixllis of the lengtli of the 

 first: first cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by four limes its length ; second 

 slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, very 

 much longer than the first; third slightly waved, very slanting, 

 fonningan acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, a little shorter tlian the third ; fifth curved, 

 forming a nearly right angle. Body black, powdered with white 

 beneath and on the tip of the abdomen : head much narrower than 

 the fore-chest, adorned on each side with a waved tawny hand 

 which has a tawny spot behind it; two small almost connected yel- 

 low spots on the face which is very slightly convex: mouth tawny 

 with a black tip reaching nearly to the hind-hips : eyes not promi- 

 nent: feelers black : fore-chest tawny, broadest in the middle ; disk 

 of the scutcheon mostly black ; hind-scutcheon broad, widened and 

 almost angular on each side, which bends very slightly upward and 

 has a black border: sides, cross ridge and hind border of the 

 scutcheon of the middle chest tawny ; hind border hardly evcavated : 

 legs dark tawny, powdered with while ; fore-shanks, fore-feet, and 

 tips of the otber feet black ; fore-thighs aimed willi two very short 

 and blunt black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with tawny spines : fore- 

 wings brown, partly gray, and feathered with brown, adorned with 

 nine irregular colourless spots ; hind borders colourless, slightly 

 streaked with brown, and communicating with a parallel row of 

 semicircular colourless spots; veins black, partly tawny ; hind-wings 

 tawny, dark brown on one-third of the surface towards the br)rders, 

 which are whitish with a row of small pale brown marks near the 

 brown part ; the latter is adorned witli a colourless spot in each 

 wing; veins tawny, partly black. Length of the body 9 lines; of 

 the wings 27 lines. 

 «. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



