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Genus MILESIA, Latr. 



MiLKsiA i-ACONiCA, Fem. 



Nigra, thorace macuHs et fasciis flavis vittlsqiw quinque chiereis ornatn, 

 abdomine rufo-fusco maculis Jlavis et fasciis cyaneo-fulvis alhidisque 

 oi~nato, pedibus piveis, alls limpidis ad costam fuscis. 



Black : head mostly clothed with short yellow hairs and adorned with 

 a whitish covering, which occupies the whole of the face excepting a black 

 stripe along the middle: ej-es bronzed; all the facets very small : mouth 

 pitchy : feelers pitchy at the base : chest adorned with five indistinct gray 

 stripes ,• a whitish mark on each shoulder ; two obconical yellow spots on the 

 back, behind them and in front of the iving-ribs there is an interrupted yelloiv 

 band; an entire yellow band in front of the scutcheon which is pitchy; a 

 tuft of yellow hairs on each side of the latter band : abdomen obconical, 

 thinly clothed with very short tawny hairs, longer than the chest, reddish 

 brown, black at the base, xchcre there are two oblique spots of bright yellow 

 hairs ; beyond these is an interrupted tawny band rounded on each side and 

 adorned u'ith blue lustre ; then follow-two interrupted whitish bands clothed 

 with bright short yellow hairs ; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs 

 pitchy, clolhed with very short tawny hairs ; foot-cushions and tii)s of the 

 fore-shanks tawny ; claws tawny with black tips : icings colourless ; a broun 

 stripe interrupted by more or less pale slreals along the whole length of the 

 fore border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; poisers pale yellow. Length 

 of the body 6^ lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Brazil. 



DEINECHES, n. g. 



Milesia et Rhingia affiuis : epistoma conicum : os capite multo lou- 

 gior : tibiae subcurvata; ; femora postica crassa. 



Connects Milesia and Rhingia. Epistoma produced into a cone : 

 mouth much longer than the head : shanks slightly curved ; hind-thighs 

 thick : wing-veins like those of Rhingia, but the cross-veins along the hind 

 border towards the tip of the wing form an almost uninterrupted line, and 

 the cross-vein which bounds the inner side of the fust posterior areolet is 

 much curved and very oblique. 



