8} LIST OF IIOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



ger than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a hardly acute 

 angle. Body black, short, broad, shining, partly clothed with tawny 

 hairs : head as broad as the fore-chest; face slightly convex, not at 

 all prominent ; mouth black, reaching the middle-hips : eyes not pro- 

 minent ; feelers black ; scutcheon ol the fore-chest furrowed, having 

 on each side a tawny spot which is different in size and shape from 

 that of C. Aquila; sides very slightly convex in front and behind, 

 slightly notched in the middle part : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with a dark tawny spot on each side of the excavation, which 

 is very slight : al)domen obcouical, a little longer than the chest, 

 dark lawny on each side towards the base, and thence to the tip 

 clothed with deep tawny down excepting a stripe along the middle; 

 under side dark tawny : 0|)ercula large, black, close, tawny on each 

 side : drums tawny, large, more than half the length of the abdo- 

 men, irregularly triangular, narrow, pointed and slightly curved 

 towards the tips, adorned with innumerable pale ringlets : a short 

 black horn at the tip of the abdomen : legs black ; four hinder thighs 

 dark tawny beneath ; fore-thighs armed with two long black teeth : 

 wings brown, adorned wtth purplish and copper lustre, blackish 

 brown mottled with pale brown on more than one-third of the length 

 from the base of the fore-wings, and on more than two-thirds of the 

 hind-wings ; brands dark brown ; veins along the fore borders of the 

 fore-wings clouded with dark brown to the tips; veins tawny, black 

 towards the tips of the fore-wings ; flaps pale brown, adorned with 

 numerous parallel streaks, black at the base, dark brown along the 

 fore border. Length of the body 21 lines ; of the wings 57 lines. 

 a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



9. FinciNA Aquila, Fem. 

 Nervus transversus \us feri rectus, perobliqurts, miffuluin perob- 

 tusum fingms, 2o pius triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2ms 

 subcurvus, perobliquus, unguium ■perobtusum fingens, H lon- 

 gitudine ; 3us subundatus, subobliquns, angulum vix aeutuni 

 fingens; ius subundatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 

 3o mullb longinr. 



Second marginal areolet about five-sixths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein nearly straight, extremely .slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by a little more than 

 thrice its length ; second slightly curved, extremely slanting, form- 

 ing an extremely obtuse angle, as long as the first ; third slightly 

 waved, slightly slanting,forming a hardly acute angle; fourth slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much longer than the third ; 

 fifth curved, upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body black. 



