DIPTHRA. 107 
tawny; wings colourless. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 10 
lines. 
East India. 
ACURANA, n. g. 
‘ 
Antennis articulus lus 20 duplo longior; 3us lo et 20 longior, sub- 
fusiformis: tibia anteriores subrecte, postice valdé arcuate: alis areola 
la postica prope marginem clausa, 4a et areola inferior ab margine 
yemote. 
Head very thickly clothed with long hairs: second joint about half 
the length of the first; third longer than the first and the second, very 
slightly spindle-shaped: four anterior shanks almost straight ; hind pair 
much curved: first posterior areolet of the wing closed near the border ; 
fourth closed at some distance from the border; inferior areolet closed at 
some distance from the border. 
Acurana 6-rasctaTa, Fem. 
Nigra, abdomine nigro-fusco fasciis sex fulvis ornato, antennis pedibusque 
nigris tibiis anterioribus fulvis, alis sublimpidis. 
Body black: head thickly and completely clothed with long hoary 
hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles: eyes black; fore part 
nearly flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, 
clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles: 
feelers black; first joint clothed with long hoary hairs ; second and third 
beset with short black bristles, second about half the length of the first; 
third longer than the first and the second, very slightly spindle-shaped : 
chest and breast thinly clothed with short tawny hairs: abdomen dark 
brown, nearly linear, much longer but hardly narrower than the chest, 
conical at the tip, clothed with short, pale yellow hairs, these are most pre- 
valent on the broad pale tawny bands which adorn the hind borders of the 
segments: legs black, clothed with pale yellow hairs; thighs thick, espe- 
cially the hind pair; four anterior shanks tawny, almost straight; hind 
pair much curved; hind-feet and tips of hind-shanks clothed with short 
tawny hairs; claws towards the base and foot-cushions tawny: wings 
almost colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitehy, tawny towards the base 
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