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PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF 
2. L. phalerata. 9 Slender, yellowish: labium, labrum, epistoma and front 
testaceous ; tips of mandibles, line dividing the epistoma from the front, upper 
excavated portion of the front, depressed surface around the vertex, antennae, 
base of the vertex posteriorly, occiput and ground of the posterior eye-lobe 
black; epistoma with an oblique depression each side, vertex slightly excavated 
and together with the eyes brownish, three yellow spots upon each posterior 
eye-lobe, ocelli reddish, middle one largest and tinged with brown ; face rough 
and pubescent ; thorax hairy, with black suture upon the pleura, and two lines 
upon each humerus running to the base of the head also black, elevated edges 
upon the origins of the wings, surface between the wings, and thoracic middle 
carina blackish ; wings hyaline, cellules large, bases of the posteriors tinged 
with fulvous, costal and subcostal nervules, and pterostigma dark brown, tri- 
angle crossed by a single nervule, having the sides a little sinuous, two rows of 
discoidal areolets, eight antecubital and five cubital cross-nervulea, membranale 
small, a little dusky ; abdomen with a dorsal irregular line, dilating upon the 
sixth and seventh segments, entirely covering the three posterior ones, a lateral 
one, interrupted, dilating into a broader patch upon the apices of the fourth, 
fifth and sixth segments, and branching off running obliquely forward upon 
the third, an elevated, fine, transverse line upon the second and third segments, 
which curve upon the sides, run a little obliquely forward and join the line 
which occupies the transverse edge of the segment, another lateral carinateline 
commencing against the transverse line of the third segment and extending to 
the tip of the eighth ; venter with a black line in the middle ; caudal and anal 
appendages yellow, pubescent, the former cylindrical, acute, more than twice 
the length of the latter ; vulvar scale extending to the middle of the ninth seg- 
ment, a little elevated and triangular ; legs yellow, internal and lateral surface 
of the femorae and tibse, spines upon the latter, and tarsi black. 
Takanosima, Japan. 
Length of posterior wing 11 lines. Pterostigma If lines. Abdomen 9J. 
Cerci J. Total length 14. 
3. L. speciosa. 9 Yellowish testaceous ; base of labium, tips of mandibles, 
line behind the front, antennae, vertex in front and spots upon the posterior 
eye lobe black ; remaining portions of the head yellowish ; labrum, nasus, 
epistoma and front well defined, separated by sutures ; epistoma each side, in- 
feriorly, and front with sharp, slightly elevated margins ; face clothed with 
blackish hairs, eyes touching in a very small part of their superior curvature, 
occiput yellow, hairy, with a black spot each side ; prothorax with the posterior 
lobe very prominent, slightly emarginate above, clothed with long hairs ; a double 
line upon the humerus, two lines upon the pleura and elevated edges between 
the wings black ; wings hyaline, narrowly tipped with brown, costal nervure and 
subcostal cross-veins pale-brown, pterostigma dark brown margined with a 
black nervule, triangle very acute, traversed by one nervule, three rows of dis* 
coidal areolets, thirteen cubital cross-nervules, sixteen costal ones, membrane 
large, blackish : abdomen yellowish with the three first segments a little dilated, 
second and third with a transverse elevated line, the latter connected with the 
transverse, elevated edge of the segment by another elevated, lateral line ; a 
black line each side dilating upon the apices of the posterior segments and 
almost covering the penultimate one, medial and lateral carinate edges deep 
black, antepenultimate segment a little dilated, ultimate segment and append- 
ages yellow, vulvar margin small, deeply emarginate, cerci fusiform, acute : legs 
black, a yellow line above and beneath upon the anterior femorse, coxae and 
basal superior surface of the posterior femorae also yellow, spines of all the legs 
long, black. 
Takanosima and Simoda, Japan. 
Length of posterior wing 19 lines. Pterostigma 2 lines. Total length 2 
inches. 
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