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black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere: sucker 
and palpi black; palpi beset with long whitish bristles ; feelers black ; first 
and second joints tawny, clothed with short whitish hairs; third conical, 
tawny and rounded at the base ; bristle slender, nearly thrice the length of 
the third joint ; chest gray with a tawny tinge, thinly beset with very short 
black bristles, armed on each side with a few black spines, adorned with 
four brown stripes, of which the side pair are indistinct ; seutcheon and 
hind part of the chest beset with long whitish hairs and spines; breast 
hoary, thinly clothed with whitish hairs: abdomen black, tapering from the 
base to the tip, less than twice the length of the chest, clothed with short 
white hairs ; sides, hind borders of the segments and under side tawny : legs 
pale tawny, thickly clothed with whitish hairs, armed with some black and 
whitish spines ; thighs and hind-feet black above, the latter dark tawny be- 
neath ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny: wings with a very slight tawny 
tinge; wing-ribs and veins pitchy; veins tawny at the base and along the 
fore border ; poisers pale tawny. 
Fem. Abdomen more than twice the length of the chest, black and 
compressed towards the tip; poisers rather dark tawny. 
Length of the body 6—7 lines ; of the wings 10—18} lines. 
East India. 
TRUPANEA TEMERARIA, Fem. 
Flavo-fusca, capite fulvo, thorace nigro bivittato, pectore cano, abdomine 
nigro-fusco segmentorum marginibus posticis ferrugineis, antennis 
pedibusque nigris, tibiis anterioribus basi fulvis, alis subfuscis apice 
cinereis. 
Body black: head adorned with a tawny covering, paler and clothed 
with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with a 
row of black spines, beset with black bristles on each side of the crown; 
face convex towards the epistoma, beset with a few white hairs and bristles, 
armed with some yellow spines, these are on the epistoma and thence ex- 
tend to each side of the peristoma, which has also a black bristle and a 
black hair: eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those 
elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with pitchy hairs ; palpi clothed with 
long, pale yellow hairs: feelers black ; first and second joints thickly beset 
with short black bristles ; second much shorter than the first: chest yel- 
lowish-brown, thinly clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each 
