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the Other three black, two lnvp;e and one small ; fote-shanks ferru- 

 ginous : winjts colourless ; their tips slightly tinged with hrown ; 

 lore border tawny as lar as the brand, black from thence towards 

 the tip ; veins black, tawny at the base ; Ijind-flaps at the base and 

 fore-flaps brown. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 30 

 lines. 

 a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



34. DuNBUBiA Thalia, Mas. 

 Nenms transversus 1j« curvus, obliquus, anffulum oblusum fin- 

 gens, 2o j)lus duplo ejus longiludine dimsus ; 2«s vix curvus, 

 obliquus, angulum nhhisum fingens, \o dimidio paullb lon- 

 gior ; 3us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum vix aculum fingens ; 

 4us subcurmts, obliquus, unguium iubacutum fingens, 3o paul- 

 Ib brevior. 

 Second marginal areolet less than half the length of the first : 

 first cross-vein curved, oliliquc, forming an obtuse angle, parted from 

 the second by very much more than twice its length ; second hardly 

 curved, oblique, forming an obtuse angle, very little more than half 

 the length of the first; third very sliglitly curved, oblique, forming 

 a hardly acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, oblique, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, a Utile shorter than the third ; fifth nearly 

 straight, almost upright, forming a very slightly obtuse angle. 

 Var p First cross-vein slightly slanting ; second slightly curved, 

 upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle, a little longer than the 

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

 slightly curved, forming an acute angle; fifth slightly curved. Body 

 tawny, narrow, linear : head a little narrower than the lore-chest, 

 adorned above with three large black spots, one on the region of the 

 eyelets; face prominent, very convex, adorned in front with a black 

 stripe, which sends forth black bands on each side : mouth pale 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching the middle-hips : eyes prominent : 

 feelers tawny at the base : fore-chest narrower before than behind ; 

 scutcheon adorned with two black stripes which are widened before 

 and behind, and with two pitchy marks nearer the sides which are 

 mostly pitchy ; bind-scntcheon narrow in the middle, pitchy, very 

 broad, and forming an obtuse angle near the base of each fore-wing, 

 pitchy along the fore border, armed with a tooth in the middle of 

 each side : disk of the scutcheon of the middle-chest black, adorned 

 with two tawny stripes, which are divided in front and the outer 

 fork of each forms three branches ; sides and hind border tawny, the 

 latter hardly excavated : abdomen pale tawny, slightly obconical, a 

 little narrower and much longer than the chest, adorned un each side 



