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pale shining liairs: head very short, a little naiTower than the fore- 

 chest, adorned above with two broad black bands ; face hardly 

 convex, not at all prominent : mouth tawny with a black lip, reach- 

 ing the hind-hips : feelers black : eyes prominent : fore-chest bright 

 grass-green, narrower in front than behind, black on each side where 

 there is a very obtuse angle near the base of the fore-wing, straight 

 and armed with black spines from thence to the fore border; hind- 

 scutcheon a little broader on each side than in the middle : excava- 

 tion on the hind border of the scutcheon of the iniddle-chest broad 

 and very shallow : abdomen slightly obconical, a little narrower but 

 not longer than the chest, ferruginous above with the exception of 

 the base : opercula very small ; tymbals whitish ; drums very small, 

 far apart : legs green, tinged with tawny ; thighs streaked with 

 black ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two black 

 teeth : wings colourless, green at the base and along the fore border 

 which is armed with black spines; a stout spine at the base of each 

 fore-wing ; veins green, black towards the tips. 



Fern. — Abdomen hardly narrower till near the tip which is slen- 

 der and obconical, and has a large green spot on each side beneath. 



Length of the body 1 1 lines ; of the wings 3() — 38 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



b. Para. Presented by Reginald Graham, Esq. 



c. Bra/.il. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



65. Cic.vDA Melisa, Mas. 



Nenms transversus 1ms subcurvus, vahU nbliquus, angulum valile 

 obtusum Jingens, 2o Irijilb ejus loni/itudine ilivisus ; 2m sub- 

 curvus, obliqmts, angulum valde oblustim fingens, lo paullli 

 bievior ; 3im subundatus, obliquns, angulum subaculum fin- 

 gens ; 4tt.i subundatus, obliquus, angulum subaculum Jingens, 

 3o paullb longior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly three-fourths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, forming a 

 very obtuse angle, parted from the secimd by thrice its leugth ; 

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, a 

 little shorter than the first; third slightly waved, slanting, forming 

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

 slightly acute angle, a little longer than the third; fifth curved, up- 

 right, forming a slightly acute angle. Body olive-green, partly 

 clothed with pale down, tinged with white beneath : head short, as 

 broad as the fore-chest ; face very slightly convex : mouth lawny 

 with a black tip, extending just beyond the hind-hips : eyes rather 



