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Wings with rather short fork-cells; the first a little longer 
and narrower than the second, its base a little nearer the apex 
of the wing, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell; 
Fig. 86. 
Wing of Leicesteria apicalis. 9 • Theobald. 
stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell; posterior 
cross-vein about one and a half times its own length from the 
mid; scales dense on the apical areas of the veins. 
Length .—5 mm. 
£ . Palpi long and thin, acuminate, no hair tufts ; longer 
than proboscis by about the last segment, brown with three pale 
yellow bands, the last two involving both sides of the segments ; 
antennae loosely plumose, plume hairs brown, segments mostly 
pallid except where the verticillate hairs unite and on the long 
apical segments; fore and mid ungues unequal, uniserrate. 
Length. —5 mm. 
Habitat.— Lushai Hills, Assam (E. C. Macleod), 1500 feet. 
Time of capture .—May. 
Observations. —Described from two 9’ s an d one $. Two 
hatched from larvae, and one caught. Closely allied to Leicesteria 
longipalpis, but easily distinguished by the apical abdominal 
yellow marks. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Note .—A specimen in the British Museum labelled by Giles 
Toxorhynchites rectirostris, which does not appear to have been 
described, is a badly rubbed insect from the Philippine Islands 
which comes near Leicesteria , if it does not belong to that genus. 
Mr. F. Carter has examined this specimen and says, “ Certainly 
not a Toxorhynchites , for the first fork-cell is quite as large as the 
second, and the proboscis is only slightly curved.” 
