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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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_Male._ Tawny, long, shining, pubescent, testaceous beneath; head pale
luteous, with a broad black stripe, which is dilated on each side; a
black U-shaped mark about the face, which is black; a large black spot
on each side of the peristoma; palpi partly black; antennæ blackish at
the tips, and with a black dot on each at the base; 3rd joint linear,
rounded at the tip, more than twice the length of the 2nd; arista
plumose; pectus with a minute blackish mark on each side in front;
abdomen blackish, except towards the base, elongate-fusiform, much
longer and narrower than the thorax; legs long, testaceous, minutely
pubescent; wings long, luteous, cinereous along the inner part of the
hind border; black along the exterior part of the costa, and with
four irregular brown stripes which are abbreviated towards the base,
the first also interrupted; veins luteous, black in the dark parts;
radial vein undulating; cubital vein hardly undulating; præbrachial
vein curved and inclined forward towards its tip; discal transverse
vein very oblique, slightly curved outwards, parted by less than half
its length from the border, and by more than its length from the
præbrachial transverse. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 16
lines.
190. ENICOPTERA TORTUOSA, n. s. _Mas._ Fulva, longa, nitens,
pubescens, facie argenteo bistrigata, thoracis vittis duabus fasciaque
metathorace pectorisque disco nigris, abdomine lineari vittis duabus
ventralibus nigris, alis longis vitreis subdilatatis, vitta costali
fulva nigricante nebulosa apice furcata, vittis duabus obliquis
flavo-fuscis.
_Male._ Tawny, long, shining, minutely pubescent; head depressed
above, with a silvery streak on each side of the face; antennæ
reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, slightly and obliquely
truncated at the tip, full four times the length of the 2nd; arista
plumose; thorax with an irregular black stripe along each side, and
with a black band adjoining the scutellum; metathorax and disc of
the pectus black; abdomen linear, much longer and narrower than the
thorax, with a black stripe beneath; legs long, minutely pubescent;
wings long, vitreous, somewhat dilated, tawny and partly shaded
with blackish along the costa; this costal stripe dilated towards
the base, and emitting a fork towards the tip; two oblique brown
and yellow stripes, which part from the hind border, are united on
the præbrachial transverse vein, and there join the costal stripe,
the exterior one very short; veins black; radial vein excessively
contorted towards its tip; cubital vein straight till near its
tip, where it is inclined hindward, and is slightly undulating;
præbrachial vein very undulating exteriorly; subanal vein straight;
discal transverse vein very oblique, nearly straight, parted by full
one-fourth of its length from the border, and by full half its length
from the præbrachial transverse, which is straight, upright, and
unusually long. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 16 lines.
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