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Legs long and robust : all feniora finely papillatei on the flexor surfaces, the 

 hind with 4 or 5 fine spines at the extreme distal end, mid femora with a row of 

 gradually lengthening, fine spines : tibial spines robust, widely set and moder- 

 ately numerous,,: claw hooks indistinguishable from the claws, which thus 

 appear bifid at the ends, the claws and hooks being about the same size. 



Abdomen long and cylindrical, the base and distal end tumid, the intervening 

 segments slim and cylindrical. Abdomen of female long and cyUndrical but 

 rather compressed laterally and of a more even width than in the male. 



Anal appendages : superior robust and angulated, with a small spine at the 

 sides : inferior of about the same length, fused, triangular and curving up more or 

 less to meet the superior. 



In the female the appendages are very shore, straight and conical. 



Wings long and tapering rapidly towards the apex, the hind very broad at the 

 base in the males and with the tornus produced and strongly angulated ; in the 

 female, the tornus rounded ; trigone in the forewing distal to the line of that of 

 hind, narrow, its long axis in the breadth of the wing, the distal and proximal 

 sides a little subeq[ual, traversed at least once ; trigone in the hindwing well 

 distal to the line of arc, its long axis in the length of the wing, its costal and distal 

 sides nearly eq[ual, usually traversed ; hypartrigone in the forewing traversed, 

 usually several times and that of the hind more often than not traversed ; arc 

 between the 1st and 2nd antenodal nervures, its sectors fused for a considerable 

 distance ; multiple cubital nervures in both wings ; supplementary nervures to 

 the bridge in both wings ; antenodal nervures numerous, up to 17 or more in 

 most species, the final complete ; 4th nervure very flat and long, only slightly 

 undulated ; 5th nervure often with an angular bead directed backwards just 

 proximal to the inner end of stigmi ; 5a well developed, usually only 1 row of 

 cells between it and 5 ; 6th and 7th nervures undulated and turning sharply 

 towards the termen near their terminations; 7a not present ; discoidal field com- 

 mencing with 2 or 3 rows of cells and then continued for a variable distance as 

 2 rows of cells, enormously dilated at the termen ; 8th nervure very short and 

 convex, arising in the hindwing from the anal angle of trigone ; Cth nervure 

 strongly angulated a short distance posterior to the trigone and appearing as if 

 forked, the inner branch of the fork being the outer border of the end of the loop ; 

 loop short and broad with no toe .-anal area in the male, broad and expanding 

 mto the tornus ; the base of wing strongly indented ; tornus and base of wing 

 rounded in the female. Membrane large. Stigma narrow and long. 



GenitaUa : male, 2nd segment projecting markedly from the ventral surface ; 

 lamina foUate and depressed ; tentaculae long, foliate processes ending in a fine, 

 sKghtly curved hook ; lobe quadrate, not as high as the hamules. Female ; 8th 

 abdominal segment not dilated, but the 7th, 8th and 9th segments broadened 

 dorso-ventrally ; 8th ventral plate prolonged into a long, fohate, vulvar scale 

 which is cleft by a deep fissure into two leaf-hke processes which overlap the 9th 

 ventral plate, on the latter and between the two processes mentioned previously, 

 is a tuft of short, stiff hairs ; the 10th ventral plate large and fissured mesially 

 and overlapped sHghtly by the 9th. Three or possibly 4 species found within 

 Indian limits. The specific distinctions are based, at present mainly on colour 

 differences which are not always satisfactory, and it is more than probable all 

 are merely local races of E. frontalis, Selys. 



?. Epophthalmia cyanocephala, Hagen, Verb, Zool. bot. Ges. 



Wien, XVII. 1867. 



Selys, Bulletin Acad, Belg. (2) XXXI, 1871. 



Martin, Coll. Selys. Cordulines, 1908. 

 Male. Abdomen ca. 52 mm., hindwing 50 mm. 



