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AsiLus TuEEiMACHCs, Mas et Feni. 



N'ujer, thoracis viltis iribus peclore ventreque cinercis abduminis seymen- 

 torum marginihus po.sticis canis, antennis pedibuaque niffris^ alls siib- 

 livipidis, apicibiis martjiniljusque posticis cinereis. 



Male. Body blade, willi a very slight bhiisli lint, which ajipears most 

 on the sides of the breast: head adorned in front willi a tawny covering, 

 whitish and clothed with white hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the 

 eyes with a row of black bristles; crown clothed with a few black hairs; 

 face very convex towards the epistomn, thickly clothed with long, shining, 

 white hairs ; a few black hairs towards the feelers and along the sides of 

 the face and of the peristoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much 

 larger than those elsewhere : sucker dark tawny and clothed with pale 

 tawny hairs at the lip ; palpi beset with long black hairs : feelers black ; 

 first and second joints beset with long black bristles ; second not more 

 than half the length of the first ; third long spindle-shaped, much longer 

 than the first joint ; bristle nearly as long as the third : chest adorned with 

 three gray stripes, clothed with black hairs and bristles, the latter mostly 

 on the hind part ; sides, hind-chest and breast tinged with gray : abdomen 

 pitchy black, clothed with hoary hairs," very slightly tapering from the base 

 to near the tip, a little narrower than the chest and less than twice its 

 length ; hind borders of the segments beset with black bristles and adorned 

 with hoary bands ; sides gray ivith a tawny tinge ; underside gray ; sexual 

 parts large, black, shining, beset with black bristles, which form a tuft 

 on each side above, the part between adorned with silky white and pale 

 yellow hairs : legs black, clothed with short black hairs, anned with black 

 bristles and spines; thighs thinly clothed with white hairs; hind-shanks 

 very slightly cnrred ; feet and tips of hind-shanks partly adorned with a 

 tawny tinge beneath ; claws at the base and foot-cushions tawny : wings 

 nearly colourless, gray along the fore border towards the tips, and along the 

 hind border except at the base; wing-ribs dark ferruginous ; veins black, 

 feiTUginous at the base ; poisers pale yellow, tawny at the base. 



Feni. White hairs on the face much less numerous than those of the 

 male ; black hairs more numerous : abdomen black, about twice the length 

 of the chest, slightly tapering from the base to the tip, towards which it is 

 shining ; hind borders of the segments hoary ; a hoary tinge on each side 

 and beneath. 



Length of the body (• — Oi lines ; of the wings \2 lines. 



Brazil. 



