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men ferruginous, much shorter than tlie wings, blackish at the 

 base ; hind borders of the segments testaceous ; legs testaceous, 

 slender, very long, with black bands ; spurs as long as the 1st and 

 2nd joints of the tarsi ; wings vitreous, moderately broad ; apical 

 third part blackish-brown; stigma pale rosy j veins white, with 

 black bands; fore-wings rounded at the tips, about which the 

 blackish-brown hue is paler and slightly interrupted ; an oblique 

 blackisk-brown streak on the hind border before the middle ; 

 veins sfightly clouded along a line in the disk; hind-wings acumi- 

 nated, longer, but hardly narrower, than the fore-wings; blackish- 

 brown part containing four white spots, two in front and two 

 behind. 



Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



Brazil. 



It is allied to M. grains, and represents in America the above- 

 mentioned group, of which M. circiiUer and M. singularis are 

 especially characteristic. 



Genus AscALAPHUs, Fabr. 

 Ascalaqihus leucost'igma. 



Fcem. — Piceus, nigro-pilosus, capite apud os testaceo, antennis 

 fulvis corporis dimidio non longioribus clava nigra, thorace 

 maculis testaceis, pedibus testaceis, tarsis nigris, alls vitreis 

 longis, stigmate albo, venis nigris, alls anticis apud costam 

 fuscis. 



Female. — Piceous : head and thorax thinly clothed with black 

 hairs ; head testaceous towards the mouth ; antennae tawny, half 

 the length of the body ; club black ; thorax with some dull tes- 

 taceous spots ; abdomen bare, much shorter than the wings ; legs 

 testaceous ; tarsi black ; wings vitreous, long ; stigma white ; 

 veins black ; fore-wings brown along the costa. 



Length of the body 16 lines; of the wings 37 lines. 



Allied to A. contrarhts, A. loquax and A. longus. 



Amazon region. 



Ascalaphus umcus. 



Mas. — Piceus, capite pilis densis nigris, vertice testaceo, antennis 

 rufis nigro-annulatis basi pilosis apice nigris corpore valde 

 longioribus, thorace vitta latissima testacea, abdomine supra 

 saturate rufo, pedibus ferrugineis, alls anticis vitreis basi . 

 fuscescentibus, macula apicali guttisque duabus sub-apicalibus 

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