LIST or IIOMOI'TliROUS INSKCTS 



10. OxyPLElJRA PASSA, Mus. 



Ncrvus Iranitvprsiis, ]m,s suhcurvtts, valile oblujuus, anffulum valdi 

 oblusum finticns, '2n (/uadrui>lb ejus loni/iluditte divisus ; 2us 

 xuhciirrti.'!, nh/ii/inis, imytihim riildv ublusum fingens, \o 

 pniillo lotujior ; 3«» suhciirmi.i, ohliquus, aiit/idum subactttum 

 Jingens ; 4uii subcurvus. vii! obiiquus, angulum rectum Jin- 

 gens, 3« paullii longior. 



Second miirginal aieo)et nearly as long as tlie first: first cross- 

 \ein very sliolilly curv'od, very slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, parted IVoin the second by four times its length ; second very 

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

 than the first; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, hardly slanting, forming 

 a right angle, a little longer than the third ; fifth curved, forming 

 a slightly acute angle. Body tawny ; head much narrower than 

 the fore-chest, adorned with two irregular black bands, the hinder 

 one widened over the eyelet-region, which has a black dot on each 

 side ; face slightly convex : mouth tawny, with a black tip, reach- 

 ing some distance beyond the hind-hi|)s ; eyes not ])rominent : feelers 

 black : fore-chest broadest in the middle ; scutcheon adorned with 

 a club-shaped black mark ; furrows blackish ; hind-scutcheon, with 

 a black streak above the base of each fore-wing, much widened, and 

 forming a very projecting right angle on each side : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest adorned with four pitchy obconical marks ; the 

 inner pair distinctly angular, darker than the outer l)air, and rather 

 more than half their length, and pointing towards two black dots; 

 hind border very slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest : opercula large, close ; drums meeting be- 

 neath, of moderate size, less than half the length of the abdomen : 

 legs tawny ; feet and lips of the shanks pitchy ; claws black ; fore- 

 thighs armed with three very short and blunt tawny teeth ; hind- 

 shanks beset with tawny black-tipped teeth ; wings tinged with pale 

 tawny ; a black spot on the primitive areolet ; veins tawny : cross- 

 veins mostly black. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 

 36 lines. 

 (I. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



