LIST OF IIOMOPTEUOUS INSECTS. 



28. Flatoides (juadbatus, Mas. 



Fulvus ; vertex carinalus, margine postico elevato ; frons pattidiore 

 vanus, carinalus; episloma mtla fasciisque obliquis patlidis ; 

 jyrothorax fusco gultatus ; mesolhorax 7ion varinatus, apice 

 niger ; melathorax cl pectus albida ; abdomen apice albidum ; 

 pedes ftiM ; alee antics amplie, albida, fulvo varia:, apice nb- 

 lique truncatce, fusco guttata, margine postico apicem versus 

 fusco maculatte ; alcE postica atbidtc, iridescentes. 

 Body tawny: head a little narrower than the chest; crown 

 extremely sliort and apparently united to the front, having a middle 

 ridf;e and along the hind border a cross ridge ; front mottled with 

 paler colour, tlat, having a slight rim along each side where it is 

 hardly rounded, straight where it joins the epistoma, with a slight 

 middle ridge which is continued from the crown, and disappears in 

 the disk ; epistoma lanceolate, with a pale middle stripe, from whence 

 oblique bands recede to each side: fore-cliesl coneavealong the hind 

 border, more c(invt.\ in front, adorned with numerous brown dots: 

 middle-chest flat on the disk of the hind part, not keeled ; tip black : 

 hind-chest and breast whitish : abdomen obconical, a little longer 

 than the chest ; plates at the tip whitish : legs pale tawny : wings 

 ample : fore-wings dingy while, partly lawny, truncate at the tips or 

 having an inward curve towards the hind border, adorned with nu- 

 merous little brown dots which are mostly towards the fore border, 

 and with a brown spot which is near the lip of the hind border ; 

 veins whitish, darker when the wings are so; longitudinal veins 

 very numerous; cross-veins numerous in the disk ; fore border hardly 

 convex, along it a row of stoiit slightly oblique parallel cross-veins: 

 hind-wings whitish, iridiscent ; veins pale tawny. Length of the 

 body 3 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



29. Flatoides Cixii, Fem. 



Niger ; from fulvus, tricarinatus, nigra fasciatus et maculalus ; 



prothorax fulvo varius ; mesolhorax ferrugineo varius, bicari- 



natus, ad apicem cristatus ; abdomen basi subttis futvum ; 



pedes fulvi ; al(B anticcB fmccc, apice et ad coslain litnpidw 



fasciis guttisque fuscis ; al<c postico; limpidcc. 



Body black : head a little narrower than the chest ; crown very 



short, surrounded by a rim ; front tawny, with a broad black band 



next the crown and a few small black spots towards the epistoma, 



