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on the fore border: legs tawny; thighs clothed with pale yellow hairs; 

 shanks and feet clothed with short black hairs ; feet pitchy, tawny at the 

 base ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; fore-shanks from half the 

 length to the tips and fore-thighs pitchy ; fore-feet black : wings pale 

 gray, tawny at the base, and with a slight tawny tinge along the fore 

 l)order ; brands tawny ; cross-veins clouded with pale brown ; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; curve of the tip cross-vein 

 almost ohluseh/ an^julur, with no stump ; scales and poisers tawny, the 

 latter with pale yellow knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



Central India. 



Tab AN us fervidus, Fem. 



Cinereus, pec to re ca no, abdomine fulvo vittis (ribus canis ornato, antennis 

 ferrugineis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisrjuc 

 piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis subcinereis basi costaque subfulris. 



Body gray : head dark tawny above, yellowish white in front and 

 beneath where it is clothed with whitish haiis ; a long, pitchy, shining 

 ridge on the crown : eyes dark bronze, parted above by a moderately 

 broad interval ; all the facets very small, but largest on the inner side of 

 the fore part : sucker black ; lancets bright pale ferruginous : palpi yellow, 

 rather long, clothed with short black hairs : feelers bright ferruginous : 

 first and second joints clothed with short black hairs ; horn of the third 

 joint very short and broad ; compound joint black, slightly curved upward : 

 chest gray ; breast hoary : abdomen tawny, obconical, very much longer 

 than the chest, adorned with three hoary stripes, the middle one distinct, 

 the side pair indistinct and interrupted, especially towards the base : legs 

 tawny ; thighs clothed with pale hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with short 

 black hairs ; fore-shanks towards the tips and feet pitchy ; claws and fore- 

 feet black : wings pale gray, with a slight tawny tinge at the base, and 

 along the fore border as tar as the l)rand, which is pale brown ; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; a slight curve but no angle 

 nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales gray with tawny 

 borders ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



Asia. 



