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short, broad, sliinincr, partly clothed with tiiwny hairs : head short 

 and broad, a little narrower than the fore-chest ; face slightly con- 

 vex, not at all prominent: mouth black, reachin>j the hind-hips: 

 eyes not prominent; feelers black; sides of the fore-chest slightly 

 concave in the middle, slightly convex before and behind ; hind- 

 scutcheon rather broad, with a short dark lawny streak on each side 

 along the fore border : hind border of the scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest dork tawny, its excavation very slight; abdomen obeonical, 

 longer than the chest, tawny on each side and beneath ; oviduct 

 ferruginous; legs black; hind-thighs tawny beneath; hind-shanks 

 tawny, black at the base and at ihe tips, beset with black spines ; 

 fore-thighs aimed wilh Iwo long black teeth ; fore-wings rather nar- 

 row and pointed, slightly tinged wilh pale brown, black for more 

 than one-third of the length IVom the base, and thence dark brown 

 along one-fourth of the lireadih along the fore border to the tips ; 

 hind-wings black for more than half the length from the base, al- 

 most colourless from thence to the tips ; flaps dark brown ; veins of 

 the fore-wings tawny, black towards the tips ; veins of the hind- 

 wings black. Length of the body 19 lines; of the wings 55 lines. 

 (I. Corea. Presented l)y Sir E. Belcher. 



10. FiDiciNA Taurus, Fern. 



Nerriis transversns Itis suhundatiis, ohliquns, unguium oblusum 

 Jinf/em, 2o quadruplb ejus Imi/itudine divisus ; 2us curvus, 

 sitbnbliqtius, anguliim xnbnhlusiim fini/ms, \o pattlld brevior ; 

 3us fere rectus, suhablii/yw:, u>if/ii/iiiit rectum fingens; 4«s 

 subundatus, obliquus, auyutuin suhiicutum Jinycns, 3o multb 



Second marginal areolet nearly five-sixthsof thclength of the first : 

 first cross-vein very slightly waved, slanting, forming an obtuse an- 

 gle, parted from the second by four times its length ; second curved, 

 slightly slanting, forming a slightly obtuse angle, a little shorter than 

 the first ; third nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming a right 

 angle ; fourth slightly waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute an- 

 gle, very much longer than the third ; fifth curved, upright, form- 

 ing a hardly acute angle, liody lawny, short, broad : head very 

 broad; face very slightly convex in front, not at all prominent: 

 mouth tawny with a pitchy tip, extending a little beyond the iniddle- 

 bips : eyes prominent: feelers black : fore-chest as broad as the head, 

 slightly tinged with green i hind-scutcheon broad, furrowed, tinged 

 with ferruginous colour, forming at the base of each fore-wing an 

 extremely obtuse angle whose sides are very slightly convex : scut- 



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