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AsiLus viLLiCATUs, Mas et Fcni. 



Fuscua, capite pectoreque canis, thorace litlis quatuor nif/ris ornato, ab- 

 dominc cinereo-fusco apive nigra: i'em. comprcsso, fasciis vmtreqiie 

 canis, antennis pedihusque nigris, lihiis tarsisque basi ferrugineis, atis 

 cine rein. 



Head adorned with a hoary covering which has a tawny tinge above, 

 thickly clothed beneath with long hoary hairs, beset behind the eyes with 

 black bristles ; a few black hairs on the crown, which is black and shining: 

 face prominent and thickly beset with black bristles towards the epistoma : 

 eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than those else- 

 where : sucker and palpi black ; palpi clothed with hoary hairs : feelers 

 black ; the bristle a little shorter than the third joint : chest pale brmvn, 

 beset with black bristles, adorned with four broad black stripes : breast 

 hoary : abdomen tinged with grayish brown, thinly clothed with hoary hairs, 

 more than twice the length of the chest, tapering from the base towards 

 the tip, which in the female is compressed, black and shining, and near 

 one-fourth of the length of the preceding part; under side and fore borders 

 of the segments hoary : legs black, clothed with hoary hairs, armed with 

 black spines ; shanks and feet ferrtiginous towards the base, covered beneath 

 with tawny down ; foot-cushions pale tawny : ivings gray ; wing-ribs 

 pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base ; poiseis tawny. Length of the 

 body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 7 — 9 lines. 



New South Wales. 



AsiLus EuPATOB, Fern. 



Niger, thoracis vittis tribus pectore abdominisque segmentorum marginibus 

 poslicis cinereis, ventre piceo, antennis pedihusque nigris, tibiis basi 

 fulvis, alis subfuscis. 



Body black : head clothed on the crown with a few black hairs, 

 adorned in front with a tawny covering, hoary and clothed with white hairs 

 behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; face pro- 

 jecting towards the epistoma, beset with a few black bristles and with 

 about four pale yellow spines ; a few black bristles on the sides of the pe- 

 ristoma ; sucker clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi beset with 

 long black bristles: feelers black; first and second joints beset with black 



