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black; thighs clothed with tawny hairs; shanks and feet clothed with 
short black hairs; fore-shanks at the base, and four hinder shanks dark 
ferruginous ; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings gray, brown at the base and 
along the borders of the cross-veins, slightly tinged with brown beneath 
the fore border as far as the brand, which is also brown; wing-ribs dark 
ferruginous ; veins black ; curve of the tip cross-vein very slight, no angle 
nor stump ; scales gray, with tawny borders; poisers tawny. Length of 
the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
East India. 
TABANUs PUELLA, Mas. 
Ferrugineus, pectore cano, abdomine basi fulvo pilis fulvis trivittato, an- 
tennis pedibusque fulvis, tarsis posterioribus basi flavis, alis limpidis. 
Allied to T. Virgo, of Wiedemann. Body ferruginous: head adorned 
with a tawny triangular spot at the base of the feelers, clothed beneath with 
white hairs: eyes very large, divided into two very distinct regions ; upper 
region bright red, very large, and composed of very large facets ; fore region 
pitchy, small, composed of small facets, confined to the sides, not extend- 
ing along the hind border of the eyes : sucker and lancets pale ferruginous ; 
palpi whitish yellow, clothed towards the tips with short black hairs : 
feelers short, bright tawny; tips of the first and second joints forming 
acute angles above; third joint deep, convex beneath, not horned, but form- 
ing an obtuse angle above ; compound joint small, hardly curved upward, its 
tip black: chest tinged with gray: breast hoary: abdomen dull ferrugi- 
nous, obconical, very much longer than the chest, tawny towards the base, 
adorned with three indistinct stripes which are formed of short pale yellow 
hairs ; a hoary tinge on the under side: legs tawny, clothed with short 
whitish hairs ; shanks and feet clothed with very short black hairs ; four 
hinder feet yellow at the base ; claws black towards the tips ; wings colour- 
less; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter darker towards the tips; brands 
pale tawny; angle of the tip cross-vein distinct, but with no stump; scales 
grayish, with tawny borders ; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 4 
lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 
East India. 
