DIPTHRA. : 59 
Country unknown. 
Tasanus xicatus, Fem. 
Ferrugineus, thorace subvittato, abdomine fulvo vitta interrupta apiceque 
fuscis, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, tarsis ferrugineis, tibiis an- 
licis apice tarsisque anticis nigris, alis subcinereis basi fulvis, nervis 
transversis fusco subnebulosis. — 
Body pale ferruginous: covering of the head tawny above, whitish 
yellow beneath where it is clothed with pale yellow hairs; ridge on the 
crown long, slender, ferruginous, shining, club-shaped in front: eyes 
brassy, parted above by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets very 
small: sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed 
with short black hairs: first and second joints of the feelers tawny, clothed 
with short black hairs; tip of the first forming a short stout horn ; tip of 
the second forming two short slender horns: chest indistinctly striped with 
pale colour, which also prevails on each side and on the breast, the latter 
is partly clothed with pale tawny hairs: abdomen dark tawny, very slightly 
obconical, much longer than the chest, adorned above with a pale brown 
middle stripe, which is interrupted on the hind border of each segment, 
but comprizes the whole of the tip, clothed with short pale tawny hairs, 
and towards the tip with short black hairs; under side paler: legs tawny ; 
hips and thighs clothed with whitish hairs ; hips gray; shanks clothed with 
bright tawny hairs: feet ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs, pitchy 
towards the tips; foot-cushions tawny ; claws, fore-feet and tips of fore- 
shanks black: wings pale gray, tawny at the base; cross-veins slightly 
clouded with brown; brands pale tawny; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the 
latter black towards the tips; angle of the tip cross-vein slightly rounded, 
no stump; scales pale tawny, with darker borders ; poisers tawny, their 
knobs yellow, with white tips. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 
20 lines. 
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