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  KNOWLEDGE 
  OF 
  TABA^IDAE 
  OF 
  PALESTINE. 
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  transverse 
  bands, 
  extending 
  to 
  hind 
  margin, 
  and, 
  below 
  these, 
  a 
  very 
  fine, 
  and 
  shorter 
  

   darkish, 
  horizontal, 
  transverse 
  streak 
  ; 
  eyes 
  of 
  $ 
  in 
  life 
  greenish-bronze, 
  with 
  three 
  

   horizontal, 
  purplish 
  -brown 
  bands, 
  and 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  dark 
  streak 
  above 
  and 
  below 
  ; 
  

   palpi 
  pale 
  cream 
  -buff, 
  those 
  of 
  <J 
  and 
  proximal 
  joint 
  of 
  those 
  of 
  $ 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   long 
  whitish 
  hair, 
  distal 
  joint 
  of 
  5 
  palpi 
  clothed 
  on 
  outer 
  surface 
  with 
  glistening, 
  

   appressed, 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  hairs 
  mixed 
  with 
  minute, 
  appressed, 
  black 
  hairs, 
  and 
  

   bearing 
  longer 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  or 
  whitish 
  hairs 
  on 
  under 
  surface 
  ; 
  distal 
  joint 
  of 
  <$ 
  

   palpi 
  elongate 
  ovate 
  or 
  ovate 
  pyriform, 
  corresponding 
  joint 
  in 
  $ 
  curved, 
  tapering, 
  

   pointed 
  at 
  tip, 
  not 
  greatly 
  swollen 
  at 
  base 
  ; 
  first 
  and 
  second 
  joints 
  of 
  antennae 
  

   cinnamon-buff, 
  clothed 
  on 
  outer 
  side 
  with 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  hair, 
  and 
  on 
  distal 
  margin 
  

   of 
  second 
  joint 
  and 
  upper 
  distal 
  angle 
  of 
  first 
  joint 
  with 
  minute 
  black 
  hairs, 
  first 
  

   joint 
  somewhat 
  greyish 
  pollinose, 
  moderately 
  swollen 
  in 
  <J, 
  upper 
  distal 
  angle 
  of 
  

   second 
  joint 
  not 
  produced, 
  annulate 
  portion 
  of 
  third 
  joint 
  straight. 
  Thorax 
  : 
  

   dorsum 
  with 
  four 
  dark 
  mouse-grey 
  or 
  fuscous 
  longitudinal 
  stripes, 
  separated 
  by 
  

   narrower 
  drab-grey 
  or 
  pale 
  drab-grey 
  interspaces, 
  lateral 
  borders 
  pale 
  drab-grey 
  

   or 
  pale 
  smoke-grey 
  — 
  swelling 
  occupying 
  depression 
  at 
  each 
  end 
  of 
  transverse 
  suture 
  

   pale 
  brownish 
  drab 
  ; 
  dorsum 
  of 
  (J 
  clothed 
  with 
  fine, 
  erect, 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  or 
  whitish 
  

   hair, 
  mixed 
  with 
  short, 
  glistening 
  ochreous, 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  also 
  

   interspersed 
  with 
  darker 
  erect 
  hairs, 
  post-alar 
  calli 
  and 
  swelling 
  immediately 
  above 
  

   base 
  of 
  each 
  wing 
  in 
  <J 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish 
  hair 
  ; 
  dorsum 
  of 
  $ 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  

   appressed, 
  glistening 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  or 
  ochreous 
  hair, 
  mixed 
  with 
  a 
  certain 
  number 
  

   of 
  short 
  and 
  more 
  erect 
  blackish 
  hairs, 
  hair 
  on 
  postalar 
  calli 
  and 
  on 
  swelling 
  above 
  

   base 
  of 
  wing 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  as 
  in 
  (J 
  ; 
  pleurae 
  and 
  pectus 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  pale 
  smoke- 
  

   grey, 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish 
  hair. 
  Abdomen 
  : 
  pattern 
  of 
  markings 
  on 
  dorsum 
  as 
  

   shown 
  in 
  fig. 
  9, 
  mummy-brown 
  markings 
  on 
  second 
  (visible) 
  and 
  following 
  segments 
  

   starting 
  from 
  base 
  of 
  segment 
  but 
  not 
  reaching 
  hind 
  border, 
  so 
  that 
  on 
  each 
  segment 
  

   the 
  drab-coloured 
  markings, 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  median 
  triangle 
  and 
  an 
  oblique 
  elliptical 
  

   ovate 
  spot 
  between 
  latter 
  and 
  each 
  lateral 
  margin, 
  are 
  as 
  a 
  rule 
  connected 
  together 
  

   posteriorly 
  ; 
  on 
  fifth 
  and 
  sixth 
  segments, 
  however, 
  mummy-brown 
  markings 
  on 
  

   each 
  side 
  are 
  often 
  themselves 
  connected 
  together 
  in 
  each 
  case, 
  in 
  such 
  a 
  way 
  as 
  to 
  

   enclose 
  the 
  drab-coloured 
  ovate 
  spot 
  ; 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  dorsum 
  pale 
  smoke-grey 
  ; 
  

   dorsum 
  clothed 
  with 
  minute, 
  appressed, 
  shining 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  hair 
  (in 
  case 
  of 
  £> 
  

   with 
  minute, 
  appressed 
  black 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  dark 
  markings), 
  lateral 
  margins 
  in 
  <J 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  longer 
  whitish 
  hair, 
  seventh 
  segment 
  in 
  O 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  fifth, 
  sixth 
  and 
  

   seventh 
  segments 
  in 
  $ 
  with 
  longer 
  blackish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  venter 
  drab-grey 
  (hind 
  borders 
  

   of 
  segments 
  cream-buff), 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  appressed, 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  hair, 
  seventh 
  

   segment 
  also 
  with 
  the 
  usual 
  relatively 
  coarse, 
  erect, 
  black 
  hair. 
  Wings 
  : 
  veins 
  pale 
  

   sepia 
  -coloured, 
  here 
  and 
  there, 
  especially 
  anterior 
  transverse 
  vein 
  and 
  base 
  of 
  anterior 
  

   branch 
  of 
  third 
  vein, 
  distinctly 
  darker. 
  Squamae 
  smoke-grey, 
  borders 
  paler. 
  

   Halteres 
  : 
  knobs 
  seal-brown 
  (cream-buff 
  at 
  extreme 
  tips), 
  stalks 
  cream-buff. 
  Legs 
  : 
  

   light 
  buff, 
  femora 
  greyish 
  pollinose, 
  front 
  pair 
  sometimes 
  streaked 
  with 
  mouse- 
  

   grey 
  above 
  or 
  on 
  outer 
  side, 
  tips 
  of 
  tibiae 
  and 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  middle 
  and 
  hind 
  

   tarsi 
  (at 
  least 
  distal 
  extremities 
  of 
  joints 
  of 
  latter) 
  sepia 
  -coloured, 
  front 
  tarsi 
  clove 
  

   brown 
  (first 
  joint 
  in 
  O 
  sometimes 
  paler 
  except 
  at 
  tip), 
  slightly 
  expanded 
  in 
  both 
  

   sexes, 
  third 
  and 
  fourth 
  joints 
  of 
  middle 
  tarsi 
  in 
  (J 
  also 
  somewhat 
  expanded 
  ; 
  

   femora 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish, 
  hair, 
  long 
  and 
  fine 
  in 
  case 
  of 
  $ 
  ; 
  tibiae 
  clothed 
  with 
  

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