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die stripe slender and entire, the two on each side broad, irregular, united 

 at each end : breast adorned with silvery lustre, clothed with white hairs : 

 abdomen black, shining, narrower than the chest, and more than twice its 

 length; a broad, hright, golden band near the tip: legs black, shining ; 

 hips tawny, adorned with silvery lustre, clothed with white hairs ; thighs 

 bright tawny at the base, clothed with very few white hairs ; shanks and 

 feet fringed with short black hairs, armed with black bristles ; shanks 

 bright lawny towards the base, this colour prevails most in the hind- 

 shanks ; tips of the joints of the feet, especially of the fore-feet, ferruginous 

 towards the base ; claws black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions tawny : 

 wings pale brown ; disks of the areolets darker at the tips, and beneath 

 two-thirds of the length of the fore border and from thence towards the 

 base ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, dark tawny at the base ; poisers 

 bright yellow. Length of the body 6^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Genus DASYPOGON, Meigen. 



Dasypogon C^\rbo, Fem. 



Ale7; capitc antico argenteo spinis albis ar)nalo, pectorc abdominisque seg- 

 mentornm 2i et ^imarginibus posticis canis, antennis pedibns ullsque 

 niyris. 



Body black, dull : head clothed beneath with white hairs : face co- 

 vered with silvery-white down ; epistoma armed with about twelve white 

 spines : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those else- 

 where : lip black, clothed towards the tip with short tawny hairs : palpi 

 black, beset with black bristles': feelers black, lirst and second joints beset 

 with short black bristles ; third nearly linear, twice the length of the first 

 and the second : breast hoary, partly clothed with white hairs : abdomen 

 decreasing in breadth^fium the base to the tip, about twice the length of 

 the chest ; hind borders of the second and third segments hoary on each 

 side ; fourth and fifth segments mostly red above ; tip shining : legs black, 

 armed with black spines ; foot-cushions tawny : wings blackish ; wing- 

 ribs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 7h lines ; of the 

 wings 12^} lines. Near allied to D. punclalns. 



Hunter's Ilivcr. 



