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taken together, red or brownish-red, with a black border at the 

 tip ; its pile is black, whitish on the basal corners only ; on thlf 

 under side there is some whitish pile, conspicuous for its greater 

 length. The whole venter has a brick-brownish coloring; the 

 pile upon it seems to be of the same color as that on the upper 

 side. Feet brownish clay-yellow, almost brownish, brick color. 

 Wings in the reflected light altogether milky-white, in a trans- 

 mitted light whitish-hyaline. The picture of the wings is black; 

 it does not cover the whole posterior corner of the wing and the 

 longitudinal half of the third posterior cell, contiguous to it, with 

 the only exception of a very striking black border along the sixth 

 longitudinal vein; above this the reticulation begins a little 

 beyond the little basal cells, and, at the anterior margin, with the 

 black stigma, which contains no drops. The space thus left free 

 contains but a few isolated little black spots. The pattern of the 

 picture recalls the European T. pulchra Lw. (compare my 

 Trypetidae, Tab. XXIV, f. 2) ; in the shape and position of the 

 two portions of it which are almost without any drops, it is still 

 more like T. conjuncta Lw. (comp. Trypetidae, Tab. XXIV, f. 

 1), only the drops upon the posterior half of the wing are much 

 more numerous than in those two species; the first almost drop- 

 less space begins at the stigma and runs obliquely to the small 

 crossvein; the second is limited posteriorly by the fourth vein and 

 becomes completely confluent with the first space upon and 

 immediately behind the third vein ; ' upon the anterior margin 

 both spaces are separated, immediately beyond the stigma, by a 

 large, somewhat triangular drop, and by a rounded drop which 

 follows it ; a third drop, of considerable size, in the submarginai 

 cell, forms a triangle with the other two; the submarginai cell 

 contains, moreover, under the second drop near the anterior 

 margin, another little drop; the second almost non-reticulated 

 space contains two drops on the anterior margin, the first of 

 which is a little distance before, the second immediately beyond 

 the end of the second longitudinal vein, and sends four tolerably 

 well-developed rays towards the margin ; the first two of these 

 coincide with the ends of the second and third longitudinal veins, 

 the last two are in the second posterior cell ; the first basal cell 

 shows only a row of drops along its posterior side; the first 

 posterior cell contains, besides a few very small drops in the 

 vicinity of its posterior side, a large drop, placed a little before 

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