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fery convex on the fore border, furrowed transversely on each side 

 where its length is little more than half of that in the middle : 

 middle-chest nearly four times the length of the fore-chest, with three 

 slight pale yellow stripes, and with an indistinct middle ridge ; disk 

 flat: hind-chest, breast and abdomen tawny, powdered with white : 

 abdomen obconical, longer than the chest; appendages large: legs 

 tawny : wings ample ; foie-wings red, powdered with white ; longi- 

 tudinal veins and cross-veins extremely numerous ; fore border 

 slightly convex, along It a row of oblique generally parallel cross- 

 veins: hind-wings snowy while with rosy tips. Length of the body 

 4 J — 5 lines; of the wings 20 — 22 lines. 

 a, b. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



28. P(ECII,0PTEnA COMMA, Mas. 



Stiblutea ; frnns subcarinatus ; protlwrax bicarinatus ; mesnt/iorax 

 subtricarinatus ; pedes fulvi ; tarsi anteriores niyri ; alte ati- 

 tic(B sublutetc, nigru binotatce; alie posticte alba. 



Body buff: head narrower than the chest; crown short, with a 

 rim in front, its breadth about four times its length ; front above 

 about the length of the crown, rounded on the fore part where it be- 

 comes vertical, with a rim on each side where it is rounded, straight 

 when it joins the epistoma, with a very indistinct middle ridge; 

 epistoma triangular; side compartments of the head slightly con- 

 cave, including the eyes and tiie antenns whose three joints are of 

 equal length: fore-chest much broader than long on the disk, nearly 

 straight behind and in front where it has a rim, a curved ridge on 

 each side where it becomes vertical and slightly concave, and forms 

 apparently one compartment with that on each side of the head : 

 beyond this there is a slanting plate with a rim in front: middle- 

 chest with three indistinct ridges: abdomen obconical, powdered 

 with white, a little longer than the chest; valves and other append- 

 ages at the tip large: legs tawny ; anterior feet and tips of the an- 

 terior shanks and of the hind-feet black : wings ample : fore-wings 

 buff; a very short and slender slightly oblique black streak in the 

 disk ; an oblong black dot near the hind border at one-third of the 

 length from the base ; veins buff; longitudinal veins very numerous ; 

 cross-veins rallier numerous in the disk ; fore border very convex, 

 along it a row of obliqire parallel cross-veins which are shortened at 

 one-third of the length from the base and again near the tip where 

 they are more frequently forked : hind-wings milk-white. Length 

 of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



