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with a circlet of black spines : legs red, armed with black spines ; knees, 

 tips of shanks and feet black : wings dark broiun, adorned with copperj'- 

 purple lustre, dark gi-ay beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins 

 black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 23 

 lines. 



East India. * 



Dasypogon Apiformis, Mas. 



Niger, fidvo tectus, abdomine lineari, antennis pedibusqtte yiigris, tibiis 

 fidvis, ta7-sis piceis, alls fuscis. 



Body black, adorned with a tawny covering, thickly clothed with tawny 

 hairs: hind part of the head fringed with' whitish hairs ; face and epistonia 

 thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs : eyes pitchy ; fore part flat, its facets 

 very large: sucker and feelers black; third joint of the feelers spindle- 

 shaped ; fourth very short : abdomen linear, as broad as the chest and 

 about twice its length : legs clothed with pale yellow hairs and bristles : 

 hips and thighs black; shanks pale "tawny; feet pitchy; claws black 

 wings brou-n ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, bright tawny at the base and 

 along the fore border ; poisers dark tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



East India. 



Dasypogon trimflas, Fern. 



Niger, capite pectorcque fulvescenlibus, thorace vittis gtiatuor pallidis or- 

 nato, sculcllo et metathorace cincreis, abdomine basi ulrinque cano 

 postice nitido striata, antennis pedibusque nigris,alisfuscis ad costam 

 cinereis. 



Body black : head adorned with a dark tawny covering, clothed be- 

 neath with black hairs, beset on the crown and behind the eyes with black 

 bristles ; cpistoraa anned with seven black spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part 

 flat, the facets very large: mouth and feelers black: chest clothed with 

 black hairs, beset on each side with black bristles ; adorned with four dingy 

 lohite, or dull pale tawny stripes, of which the outer pair are much more 

 distinct than the inner pair: breast dull pale tawny : srittcheo)i and hind- 

 chest grai/ish : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, narrowci than 



