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116 INSECTA SAUNDDERSIANA. 
TRUPANEA SAGITTIFERA, Fem. 
Fusca, capite fulvescente, thorace vitlis quatuor obscurioribus ornato, scu- 
tello metathorace pectoreque canis, abdominis segmentorum marginibus 
posticis fulvis, ventre cinereo, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis subtus 
ferrugineis, alis limpidis ad discum subfulvis cinereo variis apice 
_ cinereis. 
Head adorned with a tawny covering, clothed with a few pale tawny 
hairs, beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles, thickly clothed 
beneath with whitish hairs; face prominent towards the epistoma and 
armed with above twelve yellowish-white spines ; three black spines along 
each side of the peristoma: eyes black; fore part nearly flat, its facets 
larger than those elsewhere: sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with 
long black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black 
bristles; third spindle-shaped; bristle linear, slender, longer than the 
third joint: chest pale brown, armed on each side and behind with black 
spines, adorned with four brown stripes, of which the outer pair are inter- 
rupted ; scutcheon, hind chest and breast hoary: abdomen dark brown, 
tapering from the base to the tip which is black and shining, clothed with 
very short black hairs, full twice the length of the chest; first segment 
armed on each side with a stout black spine in a cluster of pale yellow 
hairs ; second and following segments armed on each side with one or more 
pale yellow spines ; three rows of black dots across the base of the second 
segment; under side gray, hind borders of the segments tawny: legs 
pitchy, mostly ferruginous beneath, clothed with short hoary hairs, armed 
with black spines ; claws black, red at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny : 
wings pale gray towards the tips, colourless at the base and with a slight 
tawny tinge in the middle part, the disks of whose areolets are pale gray ; 
wing-ribs pitchy ; veins pitchy, ferruginous at the base and along the fore 
border; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 
17 lines. 
East India. 
