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" Body moderate ; abdomen rather short ; wings long, trigonate. 
" Hkad rather small, with a small tuft of hair at the base of each antenna, and a small, conical, 
frontal tuft. 
" Eyes but slightly prominent, naked. 
" Labial paljji rather short, thick, directed obliquely upwards, reaching rather above the 
middle of the eyes ; the tips convergent, thickly clothed with short hairs, especially upon 
the underside of the basal joint, and the upperside of the terminal half of the second 
joint ; the third joint short, oval, obtuse at the tip. 
" Anfennce, scarcely half the length of the costal margin of the fore wing, straight ; terminated 
by a very slender, gradually-formed club, which is nearly one third of the length of the 
whole antenna, rather obliquely truncate at the tip, with a very shallow double groove 
on the underside. Spiral tongue long and strong. 
" TnoEAX oval, hairy; tippets and sides of the metathorax more hirsute. 
" Fore ivinrjs elongate-trigonate. Fore margin very little arched ; apical angle rounded. 
Apical margin rather more than two thirds of the length of the anterior, emarginate, and 
very slightly scalloped. Inner margin a very little longer than the apical one, nearly 
straight. Costal vein strong, extending to three fifths of the length of the costa ; subcostal 
vein with the first and second branches arising close together before the extremity of the 
discoidal cell ; third branch arising just beyond the place of junction of the costal vein 
with the costa, and extending to the tip of the wing ; fourth branch arising at about 
four fifths of the length of the wing, reaching the apical margin a little below the apex. 
The terminal portion of the subcostal cervure very slightly deflexed. Upper discocellular 
arising at four ninths of the length of the wing, extremely short ; middle discocellular 
vein short, curved outwards; lower discocellular slender, nearly straight, uniting with 
the third branch of the median vein just beyond its origin, closing the discoidal cell, which 
is rather narrow, and reaches nearly to half the length of the wing. Median vein strong ; 
its branches wide apart ; the third gradually arched. 
"Hind ivings subtriangular, costal margin not much curved; outer margin of the same length 
as the costal, somewhat truncate from the extremity of the subcostal vein to that of the 
first branch of the median, scalloped. Precostal vein well-defined and curved outwardly ; 
costal vein arched, extending to the outer angle of the wing ; subcostal vein arising just 
before the precostal, its branches arising at the same distance from its base as exists 
between the base of the wing and that of the precostal vein. Upper discocellular vein 
forming the base of the discoidal one, and arising at a similar distance from the base of 
the subcostal branch ; lower discocellular wanting, so that the cell is open. Median vein 
and its branches moderately robust. 
" Fore legs of the male small, pectoral, clothed with rather short loose hairs ; femur slightly 
thickened at the base ; tibia nearly straight, as long as the femur, slightly thickened at 
the tip ; tarsus two thirds of the length of the tibia, gradually attenuated, and, when 
denuded of scales and hairs, consisting of three distinct joints, the basal joint more than 
half the length of the tarsus, the^second and third of nearly equal length. Of the female 
longer than in the male, more scaly, and much less hairy ; the femur and tibia of nearly 
equal length ; the tarsus two thirds of the length of the tibia, and of equal thickness with 
it to the tip, composed of five joints, the basal joint occupying half the length of the 
