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last tarsal joint black ; they have "whitish scales on the femora and 

 entirely yellow spines, which are well developed even on the anterior 

 tibiae ; front femora with 2-3, middle and hind femora with very 

 numerous spines below ; claws red with black end ; pulvilli yellowish, 

 much shorter than the claws. Wings with a peculiar pattern of a 

 light yellowish-brown tint ; the marginal cell is completely filled to the 

 end ; the discoidal cell is almost entirely hyaline ; the inf uscation of 

 the base and fore border shows three points separated by hyaline 

 spaces, one at the end of the marginal cell, the second at the base of 

 the cubital fork and the end of the first posterior cell, the third at the 

 end of the second basal cell, passing a little over the discal cross- 

 vein. There is a distinct pale yellowish, longitudinal streak on the 

 whole of the first basal cell, more or less broadened towards the base 

 and below. Discoidal cell with pai'allel sides, as broad at end as the 

 base of the second posterior cell; its apical cross -vein is longer than 

 the discal cross -vein. Basal comb formed with entirely pale yellow 

 bristles ; alula yellowish, with long yellow fringe ; veins of a red 

 colour, inf uscated at end. In the present species the first posterior cell 

 is much narrower than the discoidal cell. 



ANASTOECHUS VARIPECTEN, sp. uov., $ , $ . 



This species, probably only a variety of the following one, is dis- 

 tinguished by the characters given in the table. 



Type $ from Spektakel, and type ? from O'Okiep, Namaqua- 

 land (Cape), October, 1886 (L. Peringuey), this last specimen being 

 determined by Bigot as Systoechus mixtus, Wied. 



Length of body 13 mm. ; of wing expanse 32 mm. Head yellow on 

 the face, black on the vertex, but the ocellar tubercle in the male is of 

 a dark red colour ; eyes of the male with the iipper areolets only a 

 little enlarged, separated for a distance as broad as the ocellar tubercle ; 

 frous of the female very broad, broader than the eye, provided on each 

 side with very numerous and strong brownish bristles directed forwards 

 and outwards, a dense tuft of short bristles of darker colour being 

 placed on the ocellar tubercle ; occiput clothed with short hairs, which 

 are yellowish only in the upper part and pure white on the sides and 

 below. In the male the frontal triangle, the face and the cheeks are 

 clothed by short but dense white hairs without any bristle, only the 

 ocellar tubercle being clothed with yellow hairs. In the female the 

 frons has a short yellow pubescence, which is white on the face and 

 on the cheeks, but in the middle of the face there is a spot of yellow 

 hairs in which some bristles of the same colour are noticeable, while 

 two or three distinct bristles are present also in the middle of the 



