340 CATALOGUE OF 



white. Length of the body 9 lines; expansion of the fore wings 

 30 lines. 



It is distinguished froni the more typical species of the genus by the 

 fore wings, which are longer in proportion to the hind wings. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



25. Phaneroptera turbata. 



Mas. Testacea, sat rohusta ; labrum album ; prothorax et capitis vertex 

 fusca ; oculi ovati, prominuli ; prothoracis carina laterales bene 

 determinatcB ; abdomen fusco interrupte vittatum ; pedes graciles, 

 femoribus spinulosis, femoribus posticis fusco conspersis ; alee anticce 

 anguata, tympano cinereo ; ala posticce cinerece, striga basali vittaque 

 exteriore costali plagaque apicali testaceis. 



Male. Testaceous, smooth, rather stout. Vertex of the head and disk 

 of the prothorax brown. Head a little narrower than the prothorax, with 

 a short keel between the eyes ; front erect, thinly punctured ; labrum white. 

 Eyes oval, prominent. Palpi with the usual structure. Antennae loug, 

 slender. Disk of the prothorax flat, wider hindward; lateral keels well 

 defined; fore border hardly excavated; sides and hind border rounded. 

 Mesosternum and metasternum slightly excavated. Abdomen with an 

 interrupted brown stripe. Legs long, slender ; femora and four anterior 

 tibicB with two rows of minute spines; hind tibiae with four rows; hind 

 femora speckled with brown, incrassated for half the length from the base; 

 fore tibiffi dilated at the base. Fore wings narrow, shorter by one line and 

 a half than the hind wings ; tympanum cinereous ; areolets very numerous 

 and minute and irregular. Hind wings cinereous, testaceous at the base 

 of the costa and with a testaceous stripe along the exterior part of the costa, 

 the stripe connected with an apical testaceous patch; veins testaceous. 

 Length of the body 11 lines; expansion of the fore wings 32 lines. 



The transverse well-defined veins between the externo-medial vein and 

 the forked branch of the latter distinguish this species from the other African 

 PhaneroptercB here described. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



South Asia. 



26. Phaneroptera rufonotata. 



rufonotata, Serv. Hist. Orth. 416 — Steirodon lanceolatum, Walk. Ann. 



Nat. Hist. Srd Ser. iv. 221. 

 Bombay. 

 a — g. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templelon. 



27. Phaneroptera subcarinata. 

 subcarinala, Stal, Eug. Resa, 319. 

 a. China. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



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