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tinct ridjfe which runs parallel to the fore border (the same in sicca, 

 sera ami ruhiginea) : concave in the middle of the suture where it 

 joins the epistoma : mouth ferruginous, reaching the hind-hips : eyes 

 hardly prominent : fore-chest short, slightly arched : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest halving on each side an indistinct slightly curved 

 ridge which joins the fore border : hind-chest short, transversely 

 ridged : abdomen lawny, nearly elliptical, a little longer than the 

 chesi, ferruginous at tlie base, bright green on each side towards the 

 tip which is thickly clothed with white filaments ; hind borders of 

 the under segments bright green : legs ferruginous, stout, furrowed, 

 marked with black; hind-shanks armed with broad spines : (bre- 

 wings ferruginous, adorned with various black marks, tawny, reticu- 

 lated and variegated with colourless spots for more than one-thiid 

 of the length from the tips ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings pale 

 brown, colourless along the fore b(«'der till near the tips which are 

 brown ; veins brown. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 

 10^ lines. 



18. EURVBBACHYS LEUCOSTIOMA, Fem. 



Ferruginea nigra varia ; abdominis latera apice lulea ; pedes rufi ; 

 alie anticie ferruginea maculis tribus nigris subfasciatee, apice 

 fusco-fiUvm albo et nigra ad marginetn macutatte ; alie pos- 

 HcafulvtB, apice fiiscte alba maculalie, margine pastico fuscrn 

 fulva maculatie. 

 Body ferruginous, dull, minutely rugulose, adorned with black 

 marks : head as broad as the chest, its breadth more than twice its 

 length ; crown short, slightly curved, surrounded by a ridge ; face 

 broad, flat, tawny, not marked with black, surrounded by a slight 

 ridge, scutcheon-shaped, concave in the middle of the suture, where 

 it joins the epistoma which is red : mouth tawny, clothed with short 

 black hairs, reaching the middle-hips; third joint brown, about half 

 the length of the second : eyes hardly prominent : fore-chest short, 

 luteous and convex in front, having a short cross-ridge which joins 

 the fore border on each side and includes with it a spindle-shaped 

 compartment : scutcheon of the middle-chest with three very indis- 

 tinct ridges, the side pair curved; hind-chest .short, transversely 

 ridged ; abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest, luteous on 

 each side towards the tip which is thickly clothed with while fila- 

 ments ; legs broad, red, furrowed ; feel blackish ; hind-shanks armed 

 with stout black-tipped spines : fore-wings ferruginous, adorned with 

 three black spots which form an interrupted band across the middle ; 

 reticulated part mostly tawny, brown at the tip, occupying more than 



