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mottling ; a brown post median waved line and a median, 

 slightly sinuate brown band among the mottling ; the marginal 

 area ashy-grey. Antenna ashy-pink above, rusty-yellow 

 below ; palpus rusty-yellow ; mid- and hind femora and tibiae 

 pale pink above, rusty-yellow below, as is also the underside 

 of the thorax and abdomen : fore leg brown. Expanse : 

 $ 130-154 mm., $ 168 mm. Some females are not larger 

 than some males. 



<J. Eighth tergite with a spatulate mesial process, about 

 H mm. long. Tenth tergite long, narrow, slightly com- 

 pressed, curved downward, finger-like, not sharply pointed ; 

 sternite produced into a mesial plate a little longer than broad, 

 sides almost parallel, apex sinuate, lobes rounded. Clasper 



Fig. 19. — Compsogene pauopus panopus (Cram.). 



very large, apex rounded, scales of outside short, excepting 

 edges, where they are prolonged, a large ochraceous patch of 

 small bidentate sulcate scales, the patch rounded distally 

 and dorsally, obliquely truncate-rounded basally ; harpe 

 represented by a small basal ridge which stands at right angles 

 to the ventral edge of the clasper and leans distad. Eighth 

 tergite at each side with a belt of enlarged scales on the inner 

 surface, the belt formed by several rows of scales which are 

 closely packed one upon the other, no scales mesially at apex 

 of segment. Penis-sheath with a small tooth ; from the 

 mouth project two tongue-like flaps whbh are beset with 

 triangular projections bearing short bristles. 



?. Eighth tergite transverse, membranaceous at apex ; edge 

 irregularly sinuose. Vaginal plate more or less membrana- 

 ceous except the strongly rounded distal edge. 



