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yellow bristles : eyes bronze-black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little 

 larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short 

 yellow hairs ; palpi black, beset with a few black hairs : feelers ferruginous ; 

 first and second joints beset w ith short tawny bristles : chef^t ferruf/inous, 

 clothed with short yellow hairs, adnrncd ivith three black stripes, of w-hich 

 the side pair are short and interrupted : abdomen tapering from the base 

 to the tip, clothed with short yellow hairs, full thrice the length of the 

 chest, ferruginous and shining towards the tip : legs tawny, clothed with 

 short yellow hairs, anned with a few yellow spines ; claws black, tawny at 

 the base ; fore-shanks unarmed : wings bright tawny, colourless along the 

 hind border towards the base ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers ferruginous. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Cape. 



Genus CYRTOPOGON, Loew. 



Cyrtopogov laphrides, Plate3, fig. 7. 



Mas. Niger fulvo hirtus, thorace nigra hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, 

 alis limpidis ad costam fidvis apice fuscis. 



Head very thickly clothed with tawny hairs, most thickly clothed be- 

 neath with white hairs : face mostly clothed with pale tawny hairs ; eyes 

 black, fore part flat, its facets very large : lip black, clothed at the tip with 

 tawny hairs ; tongue ferruginous ; palpi black, clothed with long black 

 hairs: feelers black ; third joint very slender, very much longer than the 

 second ; fourth and fifth short : chest tinged with brown, thickly clothed 

 with black hairs, which on the fore part give place to pale tawny hairs : 

 abdomen obconical, shining, a little longer than the chest, clothed with 

 tawny hairs, and at the tip with a few black hairs : legs black, adorned 

 with three fringes, one of black hairs, another of tawny, and the third of 

 white hairs, the black hairs are the shortest and the white hairs most thick : 

 there are also some ferruginous hairs and bristles ; shanks and feet thickly 

 covered beneath with ferruginous down ; foot-cushions tawny : wings co- 

 lourless ; fore l)order tinged with tawny towards the base, and with brown 

 towards the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; \eins tawny towards the base ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 5j lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



East India. 



