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sometimes confluent ; a lawny slightly curved band separates this 

 part from the reticulated lips, which are brown with lawny veins : 

 hind-wings green with numerous brown spots, gray mingled with 

 white towards the tips, white along the inner border. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 

 a. Malabar Coast. Presented by T. Ward, Esq. 



Var.? Flavo-fusca, suhtus rufa ; melathorax nigcr ; abdomen ru- 

 fuMy nigra fascialum ; pedes nigri, femora rufa ; alte atttica 

 flavidte, fusco notaUe ; apice Jlavo-jfuscie ; al<e poslic<e fuscm, 

 maculis sublimpidis variie. 

 A recurved horn on the head : wings of moderate size ; fore- 

 wings not much longer than the hind-wings ; their tips obtuse. Body 

 yellowish-brown, red beneath : crown of the head slightly ridged and 

 furrowed; front rather prominent, furnished with a slender, bliick, 

 linear, furrowed horn which is inclined backward nearly to the hind 

 border of the shield : mouth ferruginous with a darker tij) extend- 

 ing nearly to the tip of the abdomen : an excavation partly inclosing 

 the eye on each side of the front of the shield, the fore part of whose 

 side borders is black : hind-chest mostly black : abdomen red, nearly 

 elliptical, a little longer than the chest; a black band across each 

 segment above ; legs black, furrowed ; thighs red ; hind-shanks 

 armed with spines : fore-wings pale dingy yellow, adorned with very 

 numerous brown marks; reticulated part yellowish -brown: hind- 

 wings brown, with many almost colourless spots which are partly 

 confluent ; hind border almost colourless ; tip pale brown. Length 

 of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines, 

 a. East India. 



28. APH.-ENA TOBEIDA, MaS. 



Rufa, s^ubtus futva ; prothorax et scutum flavo bimaculata, hujus 



disctis nigricans; abdomen lateribus ventreque Jlavum ; pedes 



rufi, tarsi nigri ; al<e flavo-fuscw, basi rufiB ; aUe anticm fulvo 



subvittata:. 



Body red, tawny beneath : crown of the head surrounded by a 



ridge, which is highest in front, and is imperfectly divided into two 



compartments, ihe middle ridge not extending to the fore border ; 



front with six longitudinal ridges, between which are many little 



furrows : a longitudinal ridge on the epistoma : mouth tawny with 



a black tip extending far beyond the hind-hips: shield of the chest 



transversely rugulose, deeply ridged in front and along the middle, 



on each side of which it is concave and has a large yellow spot : 



scutcheon much sculptured, blackish with two yellow spots in front : 



