This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes sat graciles, subfimbriati; calcaria longa, gracilia. Alae anticae amplae, falcatae, obtusae, margine exteriore apiceui versus valde excavato postice perobliquo. Female.--Body stout, smooth. Proboscis stout, rather short. Palpi smooth, slender, obliquely ascending. Abdomen ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes sat graciles, subfimbriati; calcaria longa, gracilia. Alae anticae amplae, falcatae, obtusae, margine exteriore apiceui versus valde excavato postice perobliquo. Female.--Body stout, smooth. Proboscis stout, rather short. Palpi smooth, slender, obliquely ascending. Abdomen acuminated at the tip, extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs rather slender; femora and tibiae with a short fringe beneath; spurs long, slender. Wings broad, elongate. Fore wings falcate, obtuse; exterior border much excavated near the tip, its hind part very oblique. 93. Tautobriga Jsuspila. Fcem.--Sordide rufa, cinereo conspersa, subtus laete ochracea, capite saturate cervino, palpis ochraceis intus albidis, thorace antice pallide cervino, alis striga transversa autemedia cinerea fusco marginata linea media fusca obliqua undukta lineis tribus exterioribus e guttis cinereis fusco notatis, alis anticis reniformi magna ferruginea cinereo marginata macula cinerea magna nitente. Female.--Dull red, cinereous-speckled, bright orange-red beneath. Head dark fawn-colour. Palpi orange-red, whitish on the inner side. Fore part of the thorax pale fawn-colour. Legs bright red; tarsi fawn-colour; fore tibiae with a white apical tuft: fore tarsi with two white bands. Wings with a transverse cinereous autemedial streak, irregularly bordered with brown; a middle undulating oblique brown line; three exterior lines of cinereous brown-marked dots; third submarginal, at some distance from the first and the second, which are approximate. Fore wings with a large ferruginous cinereous-bordered reniform mark, between which and the middle line there is a large shining cinereous spot. Wings beneath with two black entire lines and with an intermediate line of...
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