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from the second by much more than twice its length ; second slightly 

 curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly obtuse angle, much shorter 

 than the first ; third indistinctly waved, slanting, forming a slightly 

 acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming a 

 hardly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth curved, upright, form- 

 ing a nearly right angle. Body tawny, partly covered with white 

 down : head much narrower than the fore-chest ; region of the eye- 

 lets black ; face narrow, very convex, rather prominent : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip reaching the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : 

 feelers black, very slender except at the base where ihey are pitchy : 

 fore-chest much narrower in front than behind ; scutcheon adorned 

 with a Y-shaped black mark, which by sending forth from its middle 

 on each side an oblique black stripe to the hind border forms a re- 

 versed W ; hind-scutcheon a little narrower in the middle than at the 

 base of each fore-wing where it is rounded, thence it quickly de- 

 creases in breadth and ceases at half the length of each side : scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest adorned with eight black stripes, these 

 being united into two on each side include four obconical tawny 

 marks, the inner pair of which are much shorter than the outer 

 pair, but are succeeded by a large black spot which communicates 

 with two black spots, the latter are on each side of the cross-ridge 

 which is dark greenish-tawny: hind border hardly excavated: abdo- 

 men ferruginous, longer than the chest, partly pitchy on each side 

 and beneath where it has two short obconical tawny stripes towards 

 the base : oviduct ferruginous : legs tawny : thighs, shanks, and fore- 

 hips adorned with pitchy stripes ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at 

 the base ; fore-thighs armed with three red teeth which are pitchy at 

 the base, one large, the second of moderate size, the third small: 

 wings colourless; fore border green; veins pale green, black towards 

 the tips, marked with black at the base and on the hind border, and 

 on the middle vein of the flap ; first and second cross-veins and the 

 longitudinal vein between them clouded with brown ; a row of pale 

 brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the submarginal 

 areolets ; fore-membranes tawny ; tips of the hind-wings brown ; 

 flaps tawny at the base, brown at the lips and along part of the hind 

 border. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 28 lines. 



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