;5()'2 LIST OF HOMOl'TEROUS INSECTS. 



(listincl Mf^c alonj? llie border ; its breadth full six times its Icnglli; 

 front short, flat, forming an acute angle on each side, not concave 

 where it joins the epistoma but forming an obtuse inward angle on 

 each side, near which it has two slight oblique furrows; its breadth 

 much more than twice its length; epistoma triangular, slightly con- 

 vex : mouth ferruginous: eyes produced into a spine on each side: 

 fore-chest very slightly convex on the fore border, straight behind, a 

 little longer than the front : middle-chest longer than the fore-chest, 

 subtriangular, its hinder sides concave: breast and hind- chest red: 

 abdomen obconical, as long as the chest: fore legs and middle legs 

 red, very broad : liind-legs slender, dark red ; hind-thighs mostly 

 pale yellow ; hind-shanks armed with four stout spines whose tips 

 are black : fore-wings pale ferruginous, partly tawny, adorned at the 

 tips with a few black spots of various size and varying in each in- 

 sect ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings almost colourless or slightly 

 tinged with brown, blackish with a white band towards the tips ; 

 veins tawny. Length of the body 2^—3 lines ; of the wings 7—8 

 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 

 h, c. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 

 d. India. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



25. EuRYBnACHYS DILATATA, Mas. 



Perruginea, nigro conspersa ; abdomen piceum, basifemigineumy 

 Aavn biviilalum; segmentorum margines pnslici sithtmflam; 

 pedes rufi nigra varii ; femora postica flam viltala ; ala an- 

 lic<E ferruciinece, cnmpcrsrc, apice fusco guttata ; ala posticte 

 fitfcte, apice nigrn-fuscce albo faseiaUc. 

 Bodv short, broad, ferruginous, sprinkled with black: head full 

 as broad' as the chest ; crown very slightly arched, somewhat de- 

 pressed, its breadth four times its length ; front testaceous, transverse, 

 bordered by a slight rim, produced into an acute angle on each side, 

 hardly concave where it joins the epistoma ; its breadth nearly thrice 

 its length; epistoma pitchy, triangular, keeled : mouth pitchy: eyes 

 produced into a spine on each side : fore-chest a little longer than 

 the middle-chest, almost transversely semifusiform : middle-chest 

 (excepting the scutcheon) as long as the fore-chest, and forming 

 with it a spindle-shaped compartment ; scutcheon small, triangular : 

 abdomen pitchy, obconical, a little longer than the chest, ferruginous 

 at the base; hind borders of the segments pale yellow beneath; a 

 yellow stripe along each side : legs red, very broad, varied with black ; 

 a short yellow stripe beneath each hind-lhigh near the tip ; hmd- 



