Excerpt from The Entomologist, Vol. 5

Abdomen black, shining, inclined to pitchy in the male, dull black in the female, sheaths of the saw black and pilose, the saw itself honey-yellow.

Fore wings transparent, with a median transverse smoky cloud very vague and indistinct, stigma large, semi circular, smoke-coloured, costal margin from the base to the stigma dull yellow, all the rays smoke coloured.

Legs honey-yellow except at the base of femora, where they are smoky black.

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