36 LIST OF HOMO.TEEOUS INSECTS. 



tawny spots, of wliicli the two inner pair are nearly square, and tlie 

 two outer pair are curved; face very convex, rather prominent: 

 mouth tawny, with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes black : 

 feelers black, tawny towards the tips: fore-chest broadest in the 

 middle ; scutcheon adorned with some tawny marks which resemble 

 a reversed C, and on each side with some more obscure tawny marks ; 

 hind. scutcheon preen, tinged with tawny, and having a brown spot 

 on each side, which is widened into a projecting and slightly obtuse 

 angle, whose fore side is convex, its hind side concave : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest adorned with a tawny W-shaped mark, behind which 

 are four short stripes ; these are united on the hind border ; an ob- 

 conical, oblique tawny mark on each side ; sides and hind border 

 green, the latter rather deeply excavated : abdomen tawny, nearly 

 elliptical, hardly longer than the chest ; segments adorned with 

 blackish bands, which are broadest towards the lip : opercula none ; 

 tymbals brown, adorned with white bands; drums green, rather 

 small, very little apart: legs tawny; shanks green ; feet and fore- 

 shanks black ; fore-tliighs armed with two small, sharp, green teeth ; 

 hind-shanks beset, with a few tawny spines whose lips are black : 

 wings green at the base ; fore-wings dark brown, colourless towards 

 the base ; the brown part includes some colourless marks which are 

 variable i» size, shape and situation; veins black, tawny towards 

 the base of the fore-wings ; hind-wings colourless. Length of the 

 body 14 lines ; of the wings 40 lines, 

 a, b. Guayaquil. Presented by Dr. J. D. Hooker. 



6. Zammara Montezu.ma, Mas. 

 Nei'vus Iransversus lus feri rectus, valdi obll</nux, uiuiulmnvaM 

 oblusumfinyens, 2o ph(s dupld ejus l<)ii(/ilii(liiii' diiisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, peroblu/um , angulwn pei'obtusinH Jiiiijens, lo iiiul- 

 lli lonffior ; Sits subundatus, obliiptm, anyulum fere rectum 

 fingens ; ins subcurvus, obliquus, anyulum subaculum fin- 

 yens. 



Second marginal areolet four-fifths of the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein nearly straight, very .slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its length ; 

 second very slightly curved, extremely slanting, f(Mining an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, much longer than the first ; third very slightly 

 waved, slanting, foiming a nearly right angle : fourth straight with 

 the exception of a slight curve in its upper part, slanting, forming 

 a slightly acute angle ; fifth curved abruptly to the hind border, 

 forming a slightly acute angle. Body pale tawny above, greenish 



