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three last are frosted by a thin coathig of decum- 

 bent down. All the tarsi of the male are whitish. 



36. M. atra, albido-subpubescens ; abdomine seg-^'/^'w^n^y- 

 mentis intermediis basi utrinque, plantisque, 

 albis ; antennis thorace longioribus. 



MUS. Kirby. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 3. 

 Hab. Barhamiae, semel capta, 



DESCR. Mas. 



CORPUS atrum, pube albicanti. 

 Caput. Fades infra antennas tomentoso-nivea. 

 Nasus porrectuSj immaculatus. Antenna ni- 

 grae, thorace longiores. 

 Truncus. TAom.r obscurus, punctulatissimus, 

 pube cinereS. Metathorax postice truncatus. 

 Squamulce pallidas. Alee hyalinaS;, iricolores ; 

 nervis testaceis, costali interiore nigro. Pedes 

 atri, albido-pilosuli, tibiis posticis basi, plan- 

 tisque omnibus, albis; digitis pallide rufis. 

 Palmce etiam rufescunt. 

 Abdomen lineare, aterrimum, nitidum, subgla- 

 brum ; segmentis margine crassiusculis, inter- 

 mediis tribus basi utrinque tomentoso-niveis. 

 I know only the male of this species, which much 

 resembles the same sex of the preceding. But its 

 antennae are proportionably longer; its nasus has 

 no white spot, a remarkable circumstance in this 

 family ; its posterior tibiae are white at their base ; 

 and its abdomen has six. white spots, in that par- 

 ticular resembling the species I am next to describe. 



37. M. 



