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11. OxYPLEURA POLITA, Fem. 



Nervus transversus lus fere rectus, obliquus, unguium valde obtu- 

 sumjingens, '2o plus sexties ejus longitucline divisus ; 2us suh- 

 curims, valde obliquus,angulum valde obiusmn Jingens, \o du- 

 plo longior ; 3us subundatus, obliquus, angidum subucutum 

 Jingens; 4us curvus, obliquus, unguium acutum Jingens, lo 

 brevior. 



Secoud mavg:inal areolet a little longer than the first : first cross- 

 vein nearly straight, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by more than six times its length; second very 

 slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, about 

 twice the leuglh of the first; third slightly waved, slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle, shorter than the third ; fifth abruptly curved, forming 

 a slightly acute angle. Body tawny, shining, clothed with whitish 

 hairs, which are mostly beneath, and on the abdomen : head much 

 narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with two black bands ; the 

 fore one forming two curved lines on the face, the hinder one 

 widened over the region of the eyelets, on each side of which there 

 is a black dot ; face very slightly convex : mouth tawny, with a 

 black tip, reaching far beyond the hind-hips: eyes not prominent : 

 feelers black : fore-chest broadest in the middle ; scutcheon adorned 

 with a short black stripe, and with a transverse black mark ; fur- 

 rows blackish ; hind-scutcheon widened on each side, and forming 

 a black, obtuse, and projecting angle, whose sides are slightly con- 

 vex : scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four black ob- 

 conical stripes ; the outer pair twice the length of the inner pair, 

 and each including an indistinct tawny spot at the base ; in the 

 middle there is a club-shaped black mark, with a black dot on each 

 side ; hind-border very slightly excavated : abdomen black, obconi- 

 cal, not longer than the chest ; a tawny band on the hind border of 

 each segment: drums tawny, black at the base, far apart, rather 

 small : legs tawny ; feet and fore-shanks mostly pitchy ; tips of the 

 claws black ; fore-thighs armed with very short and blunt blackish 

 teeth : wings colourless, tawny at the base and along the fore 

 border : cross-veins clou'ied with dark brown ; a few pale brown 

 spots on the longitudinal veins, and two rows of brown spots on the 

 veins of the marginal areolets ; veins tawny ; a black dot on the 

 primitive areolet, which is pale tawny ; veins of the hind-wings pale 

 yellow, some of them black ; tips of the marginal areolets clouded 

 with brown ; base of the wings and of the fiaps tawny, of which 

 hue there are some slight streaks extending along the veins. Length 

 of the body 12 lines; of the wings 39 lines. 

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