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two sliglitly oblique stripes which are composc<l of little brown 

 marks various in size and in shape; hind border hardly excavated: 

 abdomen obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest: oper- 

 Clila none ; tymbals large, pale ferrujiinons ; drums tawny, ex- 

 tremely small : legs tawny ; ieet darker ; tips of the claws black ; 

 fore-thighs armed with two stout tawny teeth : win^rs colourless, 

 rather long, very narrow, with a very slight tawny tinge at the tips 

 and along the hind border of the fore-wings ; fore border tawny 

 with a short brown stripe beneath at the base ; veins tawny, black 

 towards the tips ; a slight brown stripe along the hind border ; fore- 

 flaps red; hind-flaps colourless, tawny at the base and along the 

 fore border and hind border. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 22 lines. 



6. Cephaloxvs coNCbLOR, Fern. 



Nervus transversus \vs feri rectus, subereclus, angulum subobtu- 

 sumjingens, 2o feri sexties ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us feri 

 rechis, subnbliquus, angulum obtusum fini/ens, \o lonijior ; 

 Zus ferd reflus, obliguus, angulum subarutum fingens ; 4us 

 feri rectus, obliguus, angulum subacutum fingens, 3o paulld 

 longior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly two-thirds of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein nearly straight, almost upright, forming a 

 slightly obtuse angle, parted from the second by near six times its 

 length ; second nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, longer tbarr the first ; third very nearly straight, .slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slanting, forming 

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

 nearly upright, forming a right angle. Body rather pale red : head 

 small, narrower than the chest ; face convex', compressed, very pro- 

 minent: mouth tawny with a black tip: feelers black; fore-chest 

 narrower in front; hind-scutcheon narrow above, broader on each 

 side : scutcheon of the middle-chest nearly smooth with the excep- 

 tion of the furrow on the liind border which is very .slightly exca- 

 vated : a broad whitish stripe on each side of the bre.ist: abdomen 

 very slightly obconical, about twice the length of the chest, adorned 

 beneath with two rows of black spots : oviduct dark ferruginous with 

 a black tip : legs tawny ; lips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed 

 with three teeth whose tips are black : wings and their flaps colour- 

 less; veins and fore border very pale red. Length of the body 13 

 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



