LIST OF HOMOl'iEHOHS INSECTS. Ill* 



spot on ihe lip ; under side adorned with a broad pilchy band : oper- 

 ciila large, close, pale tawny; diutns large, pale tawny, less than 

 half the length of the abdomen, bladkish on ihe inner side where 

 they slightly overlap, black also on the outer border : legs pale tawny ; 

 thighs ferruginous towards the base ; claws black ; fore and middle- 

 shanks and feet ferruginous ; fore-thighs armed with three black 

 teeth, one of which is very small : wings colourless, pale tawny and 

 marked with black at the l)ase; veins tawny, black towards the lips 

 and along the hind border; fore border pale tawny for more than 

 half its length, pilchy from thence till near the tip ; fore borders of 

 the flaps pale tawny. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 

 38 lines. 



a. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



32. FlDICINA OCHRACEA, Mas. 



Nermix transversus lus rectus, obliquus, anyuhnn valdeoblusum fin- 

 gem, 2o quinquies ejus lonyitudine divisus; itts rectus, obli- 

 quus, aiiffidum valde nbtusum fingens, \o pauUb Inngior ; 3«» 

 ferU rectus, subobliquus, angulum rectum fingens ; 4us vix un- 

 dolus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o invito longior. 

 Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : first cross- 

 vein straight, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted from 

 the second by full five limes its length ; second straight, slanting, 

 forming a very obtu.se angle, a little longer than the first; third 

 nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming a right angle; fourth in- 

 distinctly waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much longer 

 than the third ; fifth indistinctly curved, nearly upright, forming a 

 very slightly obtuse angle. Body ochreous: head full as broad as 

 the fore-chest ; a black band across the front, wider on each side than 

 on the face which is convex and almost angular, but hardly promi- 

 nent: mouth tawny with a black lip, reaching beyond the" middle- 

 hips : eyes prominent : feelers tawny at (he base :" fore-chest rather 

 short ; hind-scutcheon slightly excavated on the hind border, rounded 

 at the base of the fore wing, a little indented on each side : scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest .slightly mottled with paler colour, hardly 

 excavated on the hind border -. abdomen obconical, a little longer 

 than the chest : opercula none ; tymbals tawny, very small ; drums 

 very small, tawny, the distance between them equal to twice the 

 breadth of each : legs lawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs 

 armed with two long lawny teeth whose tips are jiitchy : wings colour- 

 less ; fore borders and veins ochreous; ibre-raembraiies tawny ; flaps 



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