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short, black hairs, armed wilh black spines; thighs red, clothed with white 

 hairs ; shanks pale yellow, with black tips ; feet black, yellow at the base ; 

 claws ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale gray 

 with a slight tawny tinge along the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins fer- 

 ruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips ; poisers pale ferruginous. 

 Length of the body 6| — 7^ lines ; of the wings 10 — 12 lines. 



New South Wales. 



CHCERADES, n. g. 



Corpus crassum : antennis articulus lus 2o duplo longior ; 3us lo et 

 2o lere duplo longior : femora postica crassa ; tibiae posticae subarcuatae : 

 alffi longse ; areola la postica aperta ; 4a et areola inferior prope marginem 

 clausae. 



Body stout: second joint of the feelers not more than half the length 

 of the first ; third linear for half the length from the base, very slightly 

 tapering from thence to the tip, nearly twice the length of the first and 

 second joints : hind thighs slout ; hind-shanks slightly curved : wings 

 long; first posterior areolet quite open; fourth closed near the border; 

 inferior areolet closed near the border. 



Chcerades vluigena, Plate 4, fig. 8. 



Fem. Niger, tkorace vitti.f diiabiis fttlria rnaculisijue sex aureis ornato, ab- 

 dominis laleribus aiiren ynaculatis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, 

 femoribus rufescenlibus, farsis nigris basi fulvis, alis fulvis npice 

 margineque postico cinercis. 



Body black : head adorned with a golden covering, clothed with golden 

 hairs ; two black bristles on the eyelets ; a row of black bristles behind 

 the eyes; face very prominent towards the epistoma, beset with four very 

 long and with four shorter bristles : eyes black ; fore part black ; its focets 

 very much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the base 

 and at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi black, clothed with black 

 hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles : 

 chest adorned with three golden marks on each side, thinly clothed with 

 short tawny hairs ; two indistinct dark tawny stripes on the back, and an 

 ol)li(iue tawny band along the suture on each side : abdomen linear, 



