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pale brown towards the tips and alonj? tLe hind border ; veins pale 

 straw-colour. Length of the body 3J lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



12. Elidiptera GUIAN.B, Fem. 



Fulva, suhlns alho farinosa ; thoracis discus fuscus ; abdomen lu- 

 teum ; pedes fulvi; al<e anliciE suhfulva, fusco gutlalcB, hasi 

 subtuberculatw, apice albida, ad coslam ditalatce ; alee poslicee 

 albidcc, apice suhfuscte. 



Body tawny, powdered with white beneath : head and fore-chest 

 wanting : middle-chest marked with brown which occupies most of 

 its disk: abdomen luteous, obconioal, a little longer than the chest, 

 partly brown at the tip: legs lawny, slightly grooved, rather broad ; 

 hind-shanks armed with two blauk-lipped spines: wings broad, 

 powdered with white: fore-wings pale tawny, whitish towards the 

 tips, slightly tnbcrculatc near the base, adorned willi some brown 

 dots which are mostly near the fore border, this is much dilated and 

 very convex near the base and is furnished with very numerous 

 nearly parallel branch veins ; veins tawny : hind-wings whitish, 

 iridescent, tinged with very pale brown towards the tips and along 

 the hind border ; veins pale tawny. Length of the body 3i lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



n. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgck. 



13. Elidipteka februoinea, Mas. 



Fulva; caput flavo maculntum ; mesothoracis discw: piceus ; pedes 

 fulvi ; alec basi subinftatie, ad costam subconvexee non dila- 

 laUe ; alw posticai subcinerece. 



Body tawny : head much narrower than the chest ; its two seg- 

 ments divided by a suture which forms an angle towards the hind 

 border ; hind segment yellow, pitchy on the disk, its back forming a 

 right angle with each side on which the eye is seated ; fore segment 

 pitchy, rounded in front; front rather broad, rounded on each side, 

 pitchy next the crown : mouth tawny, reaching the hind-hips : an- 

 tennae ferruginous, rather short ; second joint near twice the length 

 of the first : fore-chest as long as the head, very finely rugulose, 

 somewhat truncated in front, slightly concave on' the hind border: 

 disk of the middle-chest pitchy : abdomen obconical, not longer 

 than the chest : legs tawny, grooved, rather broad ; a tooth on each 

 liind-shank near the tip : fore-wings ferruginous, darker at the tips, 



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