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DIPTERA. 115 
thinly clothed with short whitish hairs, armed on each side with one black 
and a few yellow spines, about twice the length of the chest: legs black, 
tinged with gray, clothed with short, pale tawny hairs, armed with black 
spines ; claws pitchy at the base ; foot-cushions tawny: wings tinged with 
dark tawny, gray towards the tips; wing--ribs and veins black ; veins pitchy 
towards the base and along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of 
the body 14 lines; of the wings 21 lines. 
East India. 
TROPANEA TELIFERA, Fem. 
Nigro-fusca, capite thoracisque vittis tribus fulvis, ventre cinereo segmen- 
torum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, femori- 
bus subtus tibiisque rufis, alis subfuscis apice cinereis. 
Body black ; head adorned with a tawny covering : a few black bristles 
and pale yellow hairs on the crown and adjoining part of the face, which 
towards the epistoma is prominent and armed with a cluster of about 
twelve pale yellow spines, and in front of these there are four black spines 
on each side of the peristoma: eyes black; fore part flat and composed of 
large facets: palpi clothed with long, pale tawny bristles: chest and breast 
dull pale brownish tawny ; breast paler than the chest, whose disk is brown 
and adorned with three indistinct tawny stripes ; seutcheon and sides of the 
chest armed with some black spines: abdomen blackish brown, clothed with 
short black hairs, long and slender, tapering from the base to the tip, nar- 
rower than the chest and more than twice its length; hind borders of the 
segments pale brown above, tawny on the under side which is gray: legs 
black, clothed with short, pale tawny hairs, armed with black spines; thighs 
beneath and shanks red; foot-cushions tawny: wings pale clear brown ; 
tips gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; veins ferruginous at the base and 
along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the 
wings 20 lines. 
East India. 
