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between tlie eyes, very convex beneath : palpi extremely short : an- 

 tennae very lonj^ and slender ; joints cylindrical : eyes small : legb 

 pubescent ; posterior legs comparatively short ; tips ol the tibiee 

 armed with two very little spurs ; joints of the tarsi dilated, rather 

 short : fore-wings ijuite bare, scmilusiform towards the tips ; costal 

 areolet intersected by several rather indistinct transverse veinlets ; 

 subcostal areolet and discoidal areolet very narrow, the latter subdi- 

 vided longitudinally ; apical areolets very long ; first divided near 

 its base by a transverse vein which encloses a sul)quadrate areolet ; 

 second and fifth very broad ; third narrow ; fourth moderately 

 broad ; subapical areolets long ; areolet of the thyridiura divided 

 by a very oblique transverse vein which joins the thyriferous branch 

 of the radius at the thyridiura ; cell of the thyridium divided by a 

 transverse veinlet. 



1. POLYMOKPHANISUS NIGRICORNIS. 



Testaceus ; anteima nigra ; alee albida, venis viridibus. 



Testaceous, clothed with pale hairs -. antennae black, about 

 thrice the length of the body, tawny at -the base; first joint short, 

 thick : tips of the tibise black above ; tips of the taisi black, fringed 

 with black hairs; claws black: wings whitish; veins pale green. 

 Length of the body G^ lines ; of the wings 23 lines, 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 8. ASCALAPHOiMERUS, ra. 



Palpi hirsutissimi : oculi maris maximi, connexi : anteunee 

 longae, extrorsum crassiores, apice '•ecuiTae. 



This genus has a slight resemblance to Ascalaphus. Eyes of 

 the male very large, connected above: maxillary pali)i vt-ry hairy : 

 antenna; long, slender, but slightly increasing in thickness irom t'lu- 

 base to the tips, towards which they are recurved and have trans- 

 verse joints: iil)iaB with two apical spurs; fore-tibi:e rather short ; 

 posterior tibiae with two spurs at two-thirds of the length : lure-wmgs 

 pubescent ; apical areoleis very long ; cell of the ihyridimn trian- 

 gular, rather short, very broad towards the tip, a litllo nearer to the 

 fore border than to the hind ])order of the wing ; intcrclaval areolet 

 and cubital areolet unusuallv broad. 



