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above and on the sides. Abdomen blackish brown 

 dorsally, brown ventrally; the apical segment brown; 

 setae blackish. Legs yellowish; tip of tarsal joints 

 brown. Claws serrate. Wings hyaline, hardly with 

 yellowish tinge, narrow and long, gradually broade- 

 ned towards apex, which is elliptical. Longitudinal 

 nervures dark brown; cross veins in the apical part 

 very pale, nearly whitish. Markings sooty brown, 

 in form of irregular, more ox less complete cross- 

 bands (about 8 in forewing, 6 in hindwing), con- 

 nected in the middle of the wing. 



Forewing 13 mm; hindwing 12 mm. 



Brit. Museum: 1 QTravancore, India(Hampsonleg.). 



11. A^. a/jpendiculata Wesiwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



p. 186, 1846 (Panorpa). 



12. N. flava n. sp. 



9 Vertex black; front and rostrum yellowish 

 brown; maxillary palpi yellowish brown, apical 

 joint darker at tip ; antennae blackish brown (ter- 

 minal part lost), the three basal joints yellowish 

 brown. Prothorax black with narrow yellowish 

 brown hind margin ; mesothorax blackish in its 

 front half above; metathorax black in its front 

 third. Sides of thorax and legs yellowish brown. 

 Claws serrate. The basal abdominal segments 

 blackish above with pale reddish brown hind mar- 

 gins; the terminal segments and the venter of whole 

 of the abdomen yellowish red -brown. Setae 

 long, with hairs, blackish towards apex. Wings 

 long and slender with elliptical apex, and strong 

 reddish yellow tinge; nervation a little more inten- 

 sely coloured. Markings dark sooty brown. No 

 basal spot; submedian band indicated by two spots 

 in forewing:- a small one at radial sector, near base, 

 and a larger one on the hind margin of the wing; 

 only the latter is present in the hindwing; margi- 



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