LIST OF HOMOITEROUS INSECTS. 



8. CoLOBESTHES OUTTIPASCIA. 



Straminea ; mesothorax tricaritiatus ; pedes slraminei ; ala latee ; 

 alie anticiB substraminece, ad apices gullu fuscis trifasciala, 

 ■margine poslico uniguttata, disco obliqui fatciata ; alte pot- 

 ticcB albce. 



Body straw-colour: head wanting: middle-chest with three 

 parallel ridges: abdomen wanting: legs pale straw-colour: wings 

 ample : fore-wings very pale straw-colour, with three irregular rows 

 of brown dots along tbeir lips ; a larger dot on the hind border be- 

 yond the middle ; and an oblique band extending from the hind 

 border near the base to near the tip of the fore border, blackish- 

 brown at ils base, afterwards tawny and very indistinct ; inner angles 

 slightly falcate; veins pale straw-colour; longitudinal veins very 

 numerous ; cross-veins very few ; fore border very slightly convex, 

 along it a row of oblique parallel cross-veins of equal length : hind- 

 wings milk-white. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 18 

 lines. 

 a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



9. CoLOBESTHES BIOUTTA, FeW. 



Flavo-mridis, albo farinosa ; frons et prolhorax carinati ; meso- 

 thorax biearinatus ; pedes virides ; larsi fuivi ; al<e liit<e ; alee 

 arUiea albo-virides, jtavo aut rufo marginata, apice Iruncalte 

 subfalcatce, maryine poslico tuberculaUe fusco-guttatte ; al<e 

 poslicm aUia:. 



Body yellowish-green, powdered with white : head narrower than 

 the chest, very short ; crow n very short, almost hidden by the fore- 

 chest ; front slightly increasing in breadth from the crown till near 

 the epistoma, bordered by a rim, not rounded on each side, straight 

 where it joins the epistoma, having a slight middle ridge which dis- 

 appears in the disk ; its length mucli exceeding its breadth : epistoma 

 lanceolate: feelers green : fore-chest conical above, slightly concave 

 along the hind border, bordered by a rim, having a distinct middle 

 ridge : middle-chest rather more than twice the length of the fore- 

 chest, with a middle green stripe, and on each side a slight ridge : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest : legs pale green, 

 powdered with white; feet tawny : wings ample; fore-wings whitish- 

 green, truncate at the tips, slightly falcate at the inner angle, with a. 

 brown dot on the hind border at two-thirds of the length ; fore border 

 pale yellow ; hind border tuberculate along half the length from the 

 base; veins green ; longitudinal veins rather numerous; cross-veins 



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