Citheroma--a Greek poet, and Regalis--regal. He was
truly royal and enough to inspire poetry in a man of any nation.
His face-was orange-brown, of so bright a shade that any one at a
glance would have called it red. His eyes were small for his size,
and his antennae long, fine, and pressed against the face so
closely it had to be carefully scrutinized to see them. A band of
bright canary-yellow arched above them, his thorax was covered
above with long silky, orange-brown hairs, and striped lengthwise
with the same yellow. His abdomen was the longest and slenderest
I had seen, elegantly curved like a vase, and reaching a quarter
of an inch beyond the back wings, which is unusual. It was thickly
covered with long hair, and faintly lined at the segments with yellow.
The claspers were very sharp, prominent brown hooks. His sides
were dotted with alternating red and orangebrown spots, and his
thorax beneath, yellow. The under side of the abdomen was yellow,
strongly shaded with orange-brown. His legs and feet were the
same.
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