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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. 1907 Excerpt:... tibia 0-52 mm., of the middle tibia 0-6 mm., of the posterior tibia 1-05 mm. Lengths of the tarsal joints in the fore foot 0-21, 006, 0"07 mm.; in the middle foot 0-27, 0-06, 0. 07 mm.; in the hind foot 0. 4, 0. 08, 0. 08 mm. The ratio of the hind tarsal joints as 5:1: 1. First hind tarsal joint with about 19 ctenidiobothria. Claws long and slender (fig. 69), with stout tooth before the apex, basal angle rounded; empodial appendix setiform. Wing membrane hyaline. Fore wing with broad pterostigma (fig. 47); mj ends close behind the wing apex. Scaling black-brown (cover scales); the ground scales gray-brown, with silken sheen. at the ends of the veins occur small, triangular yellow golden spots, at the anterior margin four, at the posterior margin seven (of which the third occurs between the ends of cut and cu2). Marginal hair moderately long, brown, at the golden spots yellow, with golden lustre. Hind wing with relatively very broad radial cell; r in the middle between mi and m2. Marginal hair long, pale brown. Veins brown. Membrane iridescent green to red violet. Ground scales (fig. 49 gs) fusiform, end acuminate; cover scales (ds) elongate fusiform, expanding towards the end which is acuminate. Length of fore wing 22 mm., wing expanse 5 mm. Ceylon. Maskeliya. April, 1905, on the stem of a bamboo tree; one specimen, collected by Mr. E. E. Green. Perientomum triste, Hagen., 1865 (Figs. 12,62, 63, 70). P. triste, Hagen., Ent. Mo. Mag., II., 1865, p. 152. Amphientomum triste, Hagen. Verh. Zoo. Bot. Ges. Wien., 1866, p. 204. Perientomum triste, Hagen, I.e., p. 210. (nee: P. triste, Enderlein. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., Bd. I., p. 325, cf. P. ceylonicum, n. sp.). Head brown, forehead and vertex with close and moderately long pubescence, brown to black-brown. Ey...