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in front and along the upper side, proloneed into a somewhat ascend- 

 ing hardly curved compressed tapering but not pointed horn, whose 

 length exceeds the depth of the fore-chest above the head ; on each 

 flank of the fore-chest are four ferruginous ridges, the upper one is 

 distinct, slightly undulating, and extends from the tip backward to 

 the lower border of the fore-chest considerably beyond the base of 

 the fore-wings; the second and third are short but strongly marked ; 

 the fourth is vciy indistinct ; fore-chest tapering backward to the tip 

 of the abdomen, very slender towards the tip which is lurid and 

 pointed ; upper side and lower side of the hind horn almost straight ; 

 disk of the latter hollow : breast black : abdomen dark red, sometimes 

 black towards the base : legs ferruginous: thighs black: fore-wings 

 lanceolate, lurid, not punctured ; veins thinly covered with pale 

 shining down ; fore border slightly convex ; hind border straight 

 till near the lip where it is convex : hind-wings colourless. Length 

 of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 5i lines. 

 a — ■/. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Kedman's collection. 

 g. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



37. Enchenopa DiMACtn:,A, Mas. 



Nigra ; prothorax ferruginen marginatxis, cnrmi porreeto compresso 

 subattenuato vix incurvn armatus ; abdomen fiihr, fasciatum ; 

 pedes ferruginei ; femirra nigra ; ala: anticce luridce ; areola- 

 rum disci sublimpidi. 



Body black : head and fore-chest granulated, covered with 

 shining yellow down ; front slightly convex on each side, with a 

 triangular ferruginous spot on each side in front where it joins the 

 epistoma, concave to nearly half its length which in the middle is 

 less than half its breadth between the eyes ; epistoma transverse, 

 obconical, ferruginous along the fore border: fore-chest with a fer- 

 ruginous ridge in front and along the upper side, prolonged into 

 an almost horizontal, hardly compressed slightly tapering but not 

 pointed horn, whose length slightly exceeds the depth of the fore- 

 chest above the head ; on each flauk of the fore-chest are four ferru- 

 ginous ridges ; the upper one is strongly marked, slightly undulating, 

 and extends from the tip backward to the lower border of the fore- 

 chest at half the length between the hind tip of the latter and the 

 base of the fore-wings ; the oilier three are short and slightly undu- 

 lating, the fourth is very slight: fore-chest tapering backward to the 

 tip of the abdomen, slender towards the tip which is lurid andpoiuted ; 

 upper side and lower side of the hind horn straight ; disk of the 

 latter hollow : tip and hind borders of the segments of the abdomen 



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