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borders of tlie veins ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins blaek ; poisers tiiwnv. 

 Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



Cape. 



Trupanka pkklonga, Mas et Fern. 



Caiia, capilc sabtus a/bidf, thorace vittis qtiuluor ni(/ris iirnalo, abdoniine 

 fii.sco fsegmenUtrum lateribus marginibus jmslicin venlrcque canis, an- 

 tennis pedibusque nif/ris, tibiis nnnniinquam rufi.t, alis subciuereix, 

 fusco varlis, apice cinereis. 



Male. Covering of the head tawny above, whitish and clothed with 

 whitish hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; 

 a few short black bristles on each side of the crown and on the tubercle of 

 the eyelets ; face convex in front, clotlied with pale yellow hairs and spines 

 and with a few black bristles ; a few black spines on each side of the pe- 

 ristoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those 

 elsewhere : sucker black, clotlied at thi; tip with short hoary hairs ; palpi 

 black, clothed with long yellow hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints 

 beset with black bristles ; second red at the base, much shorter than the 

 first ; third slightly spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the 

 second joint and a little longer than the bristle: chest hoari/, clothed with 

 very short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black 

 bristles, adorned with four black stripes, of which the middle pair are nar- 

 row and linear, and the outer pair elliptical and short : breast laiv)ii/, thinly 

 clothed with hoary hairs : abdomen dark broivn, more than twice the length 

 of the chest, thinly clothed with very, short hoary hairs, armed along each 

 side with a few black spines, tapering from the base to the tip, which is 

 black ; sides and hind borders of the segments and the whole of the under 

 side hoary : legs black, clotlied with xety short hoary hairs, armed with 

 black spines; shanks and feet covered lieneatli with tawny down ; shanks 

 sometimes red ; claws at the base and foot-cushions tawny : wings slightly 

 tinged with gray, brownish along the borders of the veins, darker gray at 

 the tips ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and 

 along the fore border ; poisers tawny. 



Fern. No black bristles on the face ; sides of the crown clothed with 

 pale yellow hairs : abdomen much more than twice the length of the chest, 

 pitchy and shining towards the tip : legs red, clothed with short hoary 



