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PSA LIS B'EMORA LIS (Dohrn.) 

 Dark-brown; head black ; antenna} fuscous or testaceous, very variable 

 in colour, with at least 16 segments. Mouth pale ; eyes blick ; pronotuna 

 chocolate-brown, very slightly uarrownir than the head, the anterior border 

 straight, t e hinder bor er rounded. Elytraample chocolate-brown, shining, 

 rounded at the ^pex ; wings projecting w 11 beyond the elvtia, of the sa e 

 colour, but slis;htJy paler at the base and along the suture. Feet pubescent, 

 testaceous, sometimes ban ed with black. Abdomen iark-brown,not shining, 

 with extremely fine granulations; anal segment square in the ^, attenuated 

 in the $ Forceps, in the $, with the branches stout, not distant at the base, 

 flat beneath, convex above, reddish-brown, denticulated along the inner margin, 

 straight, slightly incurved at the apex, where they decussate; the right 

 branch is incurved considerably more strongly than the left. In the $ 

 the branches are stout, straight, subcontiguous their whole length, the 

 apices curved in and meeting. $ 9. 



$ 5 



Length of body JO mm 9-11*5 mm. 



Length of forceps ...3 2 



La'bidurafemoralis,'Dola'en, 1863, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv., 321. 



Scudd., 1876, Ent. Notes, V., 62. (nee Dubr.) 

 PsaZ?s/emomZ2s, Borm., 1888, Ann. Mus Civ. Gen. (2). VI., 434, id,, 1894, 



op. cit., xiv., 378, id., 1900. Forf. 38. 

 EaUtat.—QQjlon (Dohrn) ; Ceylon, 1872 (Thwaites, in Mus. Hope) ; Pun- 

 duloya, Galagedara, VII., 97 (Green, in coll. mea.). 

 Occu s also in Burmah v,Borm.) 



Dohrn only describes the female, and the male has not been described 

 before. The colour varies to some extent in density, but the general 

 appearance of the insect is dark-brown, shin ng brightly ; the legs and 

 a teniiSe vary very considerably in colour. The insect inferred to as Labi- 

 dura femoralis, Dohrn, by Dubrony, 1879, Ann, Mus. Civ. Gen., XIV., 353, 

 ia really Nunnopygia dohrni, Kirb., q. v. 



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