■to LIST OF IIOMOPTKROns INSECTS. 



fore-tliiglis armed with two rather lonfj: teeth : wings colourless, 

 tawny at the base, near which they are slightly adorned with opaline 

 lustre ; cross-veins from the first to the fourth clouded with brown ; 

 this especially prevails on the first and second, and the adjoining 

 parts of the longitudinal veins are also clouded ; a row of indistinct 

 brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal 

 areolets ; veins tawny, darker towards the tips ; flaps tawny at the 

 base, streaked with brown along the fore border. Length of the 

 body 12 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



10. Zammara Praxita, Mas. 

 Nervus triinsversus liisferi rectus, suhobliquvs, angulum oblusum 

 fingens, 2o plus quinquies ejus longitudine divistis ; '2us sub- 

 curvus, valdi! obliquus, angulum peroblusum fingens, \o plus 

 dupl/> longior ; 'Mis subundatus, obliquus, angulum acutum 

 fingens, 4iis subundatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 

 3o multo longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of tlie length of 

 the first : first cross-vein nearly straight, very slightly slanting, form- 

 ing an obtuse ajigle, parted from the second by more than five times 

 its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, a little more than twice the length of the first; 

 third very slightly waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth 

 very slightly waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, very much 

 longer than the third ; fifth slightly curved, upright, forming a 

 right angle. Body black, broad, nearly linear, dark tawny beneath: 

 head broad, short, much narrower than the fore-chest, darkened 

 along the hind border ; face very short, very slightly convex, pitchy 

 on each side in front ; mouth dark tawny with a black tip, reaching 

 the hind-hips: eyes not prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the 

 fore-chest dark red with the exception of a; middle black stripe, 

 which is much widened on the fore border and on the hind border ; 

 hind-scutcheon rather narrow in the middle; tinged with dark red 

 on eacli side, where it is very much widened and its broad rim forms 

 a slightly obtuse angle: scutcheon of the middle-chest dark red, 

 but nearly all occupied by the four usual black obconical stripes, the 

 inner pair much shorter than the outer pair, and in advance of a 

 very large black spot which extends across the crnss-ridge to the 

 hind border; the latter very slightly excavated: iibdomen much 

 longer than the chest, nearly linear till near the tip where it is al- 

 most truncated : opercula none ; tymbals small, pitchy : drums 



