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126 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
hairs, armed with black spines; knees and tips of the shanks and of the 
joints of the feet black. 
Length of the body 12—16 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 
South Africa. 
TrupANEA porrecra, Mas. 
Cervina, capite subtus albido, thoracis disco fuseo vittis pallidioribus 
duabusque nigris ornato, abdomine fusco, apice ventreque ferrugineis, 
segmentorum marginibus posticis canis, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, 
alis limpidis venarum marginibus subfuscis. 
Covering of the head pale tawny, whitish and clothed with whitish 
hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with a row of black 
bristles ; a few pale yellow hairs on each side of the crown; face promi- 
nent in front, thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs and bristles ; sides of 
the peristoma beset with black bristles: eyes bronze-black; fore part 
nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at 
the tip with short tawny hairs; palpi black, thickly clothed with pale 
yellow hairs: feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a few short 
black bristles ; second not more than half the length of the first ; third 
spindle-shaped, as long as the first and the second, and a little longer than 
the bristle: chest’ and breast pale fawn-colour: chest thinly clothed with 
very short black hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black 
bristles and spines ; disk brown, adorned with indistinct paler stripes, and 
on each side with a black stripe: abdomen brown, tapering from the base, 
more than twice the length of the chest, clothed with short black hairs, 
armed along each side with black spines; hind borders of the segments 
hoary ; under side and tip ferruginous : legs ved, clothed with short hoary 
hairs, armed with black spines; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings 
colourless, slightly tinged with brown along the borders of the veins; 
wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base and along 
the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 14 lines; of the wings 
22 lines. 
