l.isr OF HOMOl'TEROUS INSECTS 



14. Platypleijra fulvigera, Mas. et Fem. 



Nermis transversus Ivs suhrectus, valdi obliquus, angulum vitlde 

 obtvsum fingens, 2o phis quadrupto ejiis longitudine divism ; 

 2«-s subrectns, vaUU obliquus, angulum valdi ohtusum Jin- 

 gens, ^o ferii duplb longior ; 3us subcurvus, obliquus, an- 

 gulum aculum fingens, 3" midlb longior. 

 Second marginal aieolet nearly as lonj? as the first : first cross- 

 vein nearly straight, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, 

 parted from the second by more than four times its length ; second 

 nearly straight, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, nearly 

 twice the length of the first; third slightly curved, slanting, forming 

 an acute angle; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an acute 

 angle, very much longer than the third ; fifth curved, forming an 

 acute angle. Body tawny, with some black marks beneath : head 

 much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with two irregular tawny 

 bands; face very slightly convex, adorned with black bands on 

 each side in front : mouth tawny, with a black tip, reaching a little 

 beyond the hind-hips : feelers 'black : eyes not prominent : fore- 

 chest widest in the middle; furrows of the scutcheon black ; hind- 

 scutcheon adorned on the fore-border with two black dots, widened, 

 black, and forming a slightly obtuse angle on each side : scutcheon 

 of the middle-cliest adorned with four obconical black marks, the 

 outer pair partly tawny towards the base, the inner pair short, and 

 having a dart-shaped mark between them ; behind this there is a 

 cross-shaped mark with a black dot, and a black band on each side 

 of it ; hind border hardly excavated : abdomen hardly longer than 

 the chest; hind borders of the segments adorned with tawny bands, 

 which are broadest beneath : opercula tawny, large, close ; drums 

 tawny, not apart, black at the base, less than half the length of the 

 abdomen : legs tawny ; knees and tips of the shanks and of the feet 

 black ; fore-thighs aimed with black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with 

 tawny spines : wings tawuy ; fore-wings varied with brown, which 

 extends beyond the brown part into the colourless half of the wing; 

 veins tawny, darker towards the tips; hind-wings adorned with 

 a dark brown stripe near the border which is pale brown, and 

 especially so towards the inferior part ; a very large brown spot in 

 the fore part of the wing communicates more or less with the brown 

 stripe ; flaps tawny, with brown borders. Fem. — Drums very small, 

 far apart. 



Length of the body 1 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



a, h. Philippine Isles. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



