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Prothorax pale brown. 
Thoracic dorsum dark brown, a pale green antehumeral stripe, 
as wide as the distance from the pale mid-dorsal carina to the 
humeral suture, reaching from the anterior mesothoracic margin 
more than half way up to the front wing base but not meeting a 
transversely elongated green spot just in front of those bases; a 
small green spot just in front of the lower end of the humeral 
suture; sides of thorax and pectus pale green, an irregularly-shaped 
blotch on the first lateral suture, a narrower stripe on the second 
lateral suture, a point on the metepimeron, and a short oblique 
pectoral stripe behind each third coxa — dark brown; the blotch 
on the first lateral suture is very much narrowed at its upper end 
and connected by a very slender prolongation with the brown below 
the base of the wings. 
Legs brown, most of the first femora and the second femora 
inferiorly paler, perhaps green. Spines of the posterior (inner) 
row of the third tibiae a little shorter and more numerous (17) 
than those of the anterior (outer) row (12). 
Abdomen wider at 2, perhaps a very little wider at 9 than in the 
segments immediately preceding; black, 2-6 with a superior, 
longitudinal yellow stripe each side which is interrupted in the 
middle only by the black additional transverse carinae on 2-3, but 
on 4-6 by a considerably greater interval (4 the length of the 
segment on 4, 4 on 5) while on 6 there remains only a narrow 
line on the apical fourth and a point at base, 7 has a yellowish 
point each side before the apex; 1-9 with yellowish just above the 
lateral carinae, broadly so on 1-3, reduced to a streak on 4-9. 
Apps. black, straight, a little longer than 10, apex acute. 
Vulvar lamina with a rounded lobe on either side of the median 
excision. 
Wings a little smoky in apical half and along hind margin 
(Teuscher’s 9 ), or clear yellowish from base to the triangle (front 
wings) or its apex (hind wings — Ileyer’s 9 ) ; a brown streak in 
the subcostal space not reaching half way to the first antenodal on 
the front wings, but attaining that vein on the hind wings although 
clearer at the outer end, submedian space of the hind wings to the 
cross-vein and a few postcostal cells immediately beneath brownish 
(Teuscher’s 9), or the veins there bordered with brown (Ileyer’s 
9). Pterostigma reddish brown (Teuscher’s 9 ), ocher-brown and 
a little longer (Heyer’s 9 ). Membranule cinereous (Teuscher’s 9 ), 
whitish (Heyer’s 9). 
