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curved ridges, which converge near the fore border; hind-chest short, 

 with tawny transverse ridges: abdomen tawny, nearly elliptical, a 

 little longer than the chest ; tip thickly clollied with while lilaineiits; 

 sutures of the sej;tnents more or less pitchy: legs ferruginous, stout, 

 furrowed; hind-shanks armed with broad spines: fore-wings ferru- 

 ginous, adorned with black marks which are various in size and 

 shape; reticulated pari lawny, occupying more than one-third of the 

 surface, adorned with some black and colourless marks, the latter 

 chiefly on the borders ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings tawny, brown 

 towards the tips; veins brown. Length of the body 5i lines; of 

 the wings 16 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby- 

 b,c. ? 



14. EunvBiuciivs sera, Mas. 



Ferruginea nigra varia ; metalhorax fulvus ; nbdonten luteum ; pedes 

 rufi ; al<e anlicm flavo-Umpiilte, basiflavo-fwiae nigra varix 

 macula una limpida^ apice flavo-fmca: macutis duabus lim- 

 pidis ; alee postiae limpidte apice margineque postica fuscte. 

 Body ferruginous with blackish marks : head as broad as the 

 chest; crown short, with numerous little longitudinal ridges, adorned 

 on each side with an indistinct tawny spot, slightly convex along 

 the fore border; face broad and flat, finely rugulose, spotted with 

 yellow, surrounded by a shallow ridge, and traversed on the disk 

 by a slight blackish ridge which has a notch in tl)e middle ; epistoraa 

 ferruginous, parted from the face by a concave suture : mouth tawny, 

 reaching the hind-hips: eyes rather large and prominent: shield of 

 the chest short, convex along the fore border, with a very indistinct 

 ridge proceeding from the hind border and shortly dividing into two 

 distinct curved ridges which join the fore border: three ridges on 

 the scutcheon, the side pair curved and more distinct than the middle 

 one : hind-chest tawny, ridged across : abdomen obconical, luteous, 

 longer than the chest, furnished at the lip with an apparatus which 

 consists of twelve appendages; the first is long, ehiinnellcd, curved 

 downward for much more than half its length, and then emits a little 

 appendage above, and is armed with two teeth beneath ; it next in- 

 clines upward at a right angle and widens into an obcimical deflexed 

 plate with a notch at its tip ; the second and the third are a pair 

 which form two stout upright spines beneath the curve of the fir.«it : 

 the fourth and the fifth are another pair, which are more short and 

 obtuse and form right angles between the preceding pair and the 

 base of the first : at the tip beneath there are three ])airs of various 

 length, which are inclined upward beneath the plate of the first : 



