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towards the tip which is very Hcute : breast and abdomen ferruginous ; 

 abdomen fawn-colour towards the base ; legs ferruginous, clothed 

 with tawny hairs : wings lurid ; stigma of fore-wings black ; veins 

 ferruginous, yellow towards the tips. Length of the body 4 lines j 

 of the wings 10 lines, 

 o. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



8. HomoLA TKiooNA, Mas el Fern. 



Nigra ; caput flaw hifasciatum ; prolhorax Jlavo marginulus ; 

 pectus nigra ■maculatum ; pedes fulvi ; aim limpulie. 

 Body yellow : head aud fore-chest black, shiniTig, very finely 

 punctured : head transverse, short, a little narrower than the fore- 

 ohest, adorned in front with two yellow bands which are united ou 

 each side : border of the fore-chest yellow with the exception of a 

 black spot near each eye, and a pitchy stripe along each lower border ; 

 shoulders almost rounded, not prominent; hind part of the keel 

 ridged, attenuated, extending to the tip of the abdomen, with a short 

 black dorsal stripe and an acute black tip : a few black spots on the 

 breast : legs tawny, middle shanks sometimes striped with black : 

 wings colourless; veins pale yellow: fore-wings punctured at the 

 base and along part of the fore border. Length of the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 5 lines. 



a. Columbia. From Mr. Jurgens' collection. 

 6, c. Columbia. From M. Turner's collection. 



9. HoRioLA coMPOsiTA, Fem. 



Nigra; caput nigrum, Jlavo cinctum ; prothorax Jlavo trivitlatvs ; 

 pedes picei vel niyri, Jlavo cincti ; alee limpida ; aUe anticte 

 fusco varite. 

 Body black, shining: head yellow, transverse, almost smooth, 

 slightly impressed, narrower than the fore-chest ; hind border al- 

 most straight ; fore border convex, with a black spot on each side ; 

 disk mostly black : fore-chest thickly punctured, much excavated 

 behind the shouldere, wliich are very obtusely angular and not pro- 

 minent, adorned with one dorsal and two lateral, irregular, yellow 

 stripes : legs pitchy or black, with yellow bands : wings colourless ; 

 fore-wings mottled with brown ; veins pitchy, robust. Length of 

 the body li line; of the wings 3 lines. 

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



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