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Tab AX us tenens, P'tni, 



Fcrrufjhifii.t, thoracis litlis duabus lattribus pectoreque cams, uhdomine 

 frisco-ferrugineo vitlis tribus fulvis ornalo, antennis ferrugineis basi 

 fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tarsis ferrugineis, alis limpidis. 



Body ferruginous : crown of the head adorned with a tawny covering 

 which is interrupted by a ferruginous, shining, convex, club-shaped mark ; 

 under side white and clothed with white hairs : sucker black : lancets fer- 

 ruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed with short white hairs : feelers ferru- 

 ginous ; first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black bristles; 

 third slighlhj convex beneath, its horn forming a little shallow obtuse angle 

 whose fore side forms also an obtuse angle with the continuation of the third 

 joint to the tip ; compound joint curved upivard, tipped with black, shorter 

 than the third joint : chest adorned with two hoary stripes ; sides and breast 

 hoary : abdomen obconical, much longer than the chest, its back brownish 

 ferruginous and adorned with three pale tawny stripes, the middle one 

 l)roader and more distinct than the side pair: legs tawny, clothed with 

 short black and white hairs ; feet ferruginous, with pitchy tips ; claws 

 black : wings quite colourless ; brands dark tawny ; wing-ribs and veins 

 tawny, the latter black towards the tips ; curve of the tipt cross-vein slight, 

 not angular ; scales and poisers tawny. Length of the l)ody 7 lines : of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



East India. 



Tabaxi;s iiii.AKis, Plate 2, lig. 3. 



Mas. FciTugineus, thoracis vittis duabus laterilms pectoreque cants, uh- 

 domine vittis tribus canis ornato, antennis fulvis apice ferrugineis, 

 pedibus fulvis, tarsis ferrugineis, tibiis anticis apice (arsisque antici.s 

 piceis, alis limpidis. 



Body ferrnginuus : head white and clothed with white hairs l)encath : 

 eyes divided into two regions ; the up])cr one composed ol' large facets, is 

 traversed by a s])indle-shaped dark brown liand which is shortened at eacli 

 cud, and divides the fore yellow band from the ])ale red hind l)and ; side 

 region composed of very small facets, dark bronze, extending in a narrow 

 band along the hind 1)order : sucker black : feelers l)riglit tawny, paler at 

 the base, third joint slight 1 1/ convex above and hencalh, not augulor ; com- 



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