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buff ; flaps pale buff at the base and for a space along the hind 

 border. Length of the body 24 lines ; of the wings 42 lines, 

 a. East Indies. From Mr. Wooler's collection. 



8. Cephaloxys lacteipennis, Mas. 



Nermts transversus \m rectus, obliquus, angulum valdi obtusum 

 JtTigens, 2oplus duplb ejus Inngiliuline divisus ; 2us subcurvui; 

 obliquu.1, angulum valde obtusum Jinffens, lo longior ; 3«s cur- 

 mis, obliquus, angulum feri rectum fingens ; 4us subcunms, 

 valdi obliquus, angulum feri rectum fingens, 3i longitudine. 

 Second marginal areolet longer than the first : first cross-vein 

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

 second by more than twice its length ; second slightly curved, slant- 

 ing, forming a very obtuse angle, longer than the first ; third curved, 

 slanting, forming a nearly right angle ; fourth very slightly curved, 

 very slanting, forming a nearly right angle, as long as the third ; 

 fifth curved, upright, forming a slightly acute angle. Body luteous, 

 clothed with pale hairs : head black, small, much narrower than 

 the thorax ; a small tawny spot at the base of each feeler ; face very 

 prominent, adorned on each side with a large tawny spot : mouth 

 black, tawny at the base : eyes not prominent: feelers black : fore- 

 chest much narrower in front than behind ; sides rounded at the 

 base of the fore-wings, then slightly concave, and again slightly 

 convex and minutely notched towards the fore border ; furrows of 

 the scutcheon black; hind-scutcheon broad, a black band along its 

 fore border: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four black 

 obconical slightly excavated marks ; middle pair not more than half 

 the length of the side pair, between the former there is a black stripe 

 increasing in breadth from the fore border to the middle where it 

 ceases ; hind border very slightly excavated : abdomen black, ob- 

 conical, a little broader and longer than the chest ; hind borders of 

 the segments tawny ; a tawny spot on each side near the tip which 

 is also tawny: opercula tawny, small, open; their furrows hoary ; 

 drums extremely small : legs luteous ; a pitchy spot at the tip of 

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

 stout teeth which are partly black at the base : wings and flaps white, 

 opake, luteous at the base ; veins black, tawny towards the base and 

 near tlie brand, an additional cross-vein near the tip of tlie sixth 

 discoidal areolet of the left wing of the specimen described. Length 

 of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 46 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens's collection. 



