V20 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



hairs, armed with black spiues ; knees and tips of the shanks and of the 

 joints of the feel black. 



Length of the body 12 — 15 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



South Africa. 



Teupanea porrecta, Mas. 



Cervina, capite subtus albido, thoracis disco fusco vittis pallidioribus 

 duabusqtie nigris ornato, abdomine fusco, apiee ventreque ferrugineis, 

 segmentorum marginibus posticis canis, antennis nigris, pedibus rujis, 

 alis limpidis venarum marginibus subfuscis. 



Covering of the head pale tawny, whitish and clothed with whitish 

 hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with a row of black 

 bristles ; a few pale yellow hairs on each side of the crown ; face promi- 

 nent in front, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs and bristles ; sides of 

 the peristoma beset with black bristles : eyes bronze-black ; fore part 

 nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at 

 the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, thickly clothed with pale 

 yellow hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a few short 

 black bristles ; second not more than half the length of the first ; third 

 spindle-shaped, as long as the first and the second, and a little longer than 

 the bristle : chest and breast pale fawn-colour : chest thinly clothed with 

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

 bristles and spines ; disk brown, adorned ivith indistinct paler stripes, and 

 on each side, with a black stripe : abdomen brown, tapering from the base, 

 more than twice the length of the chest, clothed with short black hairs, 

 armed along each side with black spines ; hind borders of the segments 

 hoary ; under side and tip ferruginous : legs red, clothed with short hoary 

 hairs, armed with black spines ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings 

 colourless, slightly tinged with brown along the borders of the veins; 

 wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base and along 

 the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 

 22 lines. 



