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shanks and hind-feet mostly black, the former armed with four stout 

 spines; fore-wings ferru<;inous, sprinkled with brown, adorned at 

 each tip with about fifteen brown dots, very convex on the fore Ijorder 

 near the base ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings brown, blackisli-brnwn 

 towards the tips with an oblique white band. Length of the body 

 2j lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker 



26. EuilVBKACHYS APICALIS, Mas. 



Ferruginca ; metathorax el abdnmen tufa ; pedes niffri rufo varii ; 

 tibicB poslic<B pallid^ ruf<e ; ala: antiae ferruginea:, nigra gut- 

 tata, apice nigra; ; alte poslica testaeeee, apiee nigrte. 



Body ferruginous, short, broad ; head nearly as broad as the 

 chest; crown slightly arched, flat, its breadth more than four times 

 its length ; a slight curved furrow accompanied with a row of im- 

 pressions along each side near the eye; front pitchy, slightly convex, 

 broader than long, angular on each side, convex where it joins the 

 epistonia, very minutely and thickly striated ; epistoma darker, al- 

 most triangular, keeled and ferruginous towards the mouth : fore- 

 chest slightly convex on the fore border, straight behind, as long as 

 the crown, transversely scmifusiform ; its breadth much more than 

 four times its length : middle-chest almost triangular, much longer 

 than the fore-chest : hind-chest red : abdomen red, obconical, longer 

 than the chest; tip tiiwny : legs black, very broad, slightly marked 

 wilh red; hind-shanks pale red, armed with three stout teeth : fore- 

 wings ferruginous with some little black marks in the middle; lips 

 black; veins ferruginous: hind-wings testaceous with black tips; 

 veins tawny. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 

 rt. North-west Coast of New Holland. From M. Uring's collection. 



27. EUKYBRACHYS BUFO, Mas. 



Nigra rufo varia ; abdomen suhius rufum ; pedes nigri, rufo varii ; 



femora et libiic poslica riifa ; alte anticce nigra; apud mar- 



ginem posticum ferriigincce, ad costam albo maculates, apice 



maculis dttabus limpidis omalie. 



Body black, slightly varied with red, very short, broad and 



thick: head as broad as the fore-chest; crown depressed, straight 



in front, slightly concave on the hind border, bordered with red, with 



a red spot on each side of the disk ; ils breadth about six times its 



length ; front slightly rugulose, much broader than long, angular on 



