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

 tennae very long and slender; joints cylindrical: eyes small: legs 

 pubescent ; posterior legs comparatively short ; tips of the tibiae 

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

 short : fore-wings quite bare, semifusiform 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 subquadrate areolet ; 

 second and fifth very broad ; third narrow ; fourth moderately 

 broad ; subapical areolets long ; areolet of the thyridium divided 

 by a very oblique transverse vein which joins the thyriferous branch 

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

 transverse veinlet. 



1. POLYMOBPHANISUS NIGEICOBNIS. 



Testaceus ; antenna nigra ; alee albidce^ 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 tibiaB black above ; tips of the tarsi black, fringed 

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

 Length of the body Gj lines ; of the wings 23 lines. 



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



Genus 8. ASCALAPHOMERUS, m. 



Palpi hirsutissimi : oculi inaris maxiini, connexi : antennae 

 longae, extrorsum crassiores, apice recurvae. 



This genus has a slight resemblance to Ascalaphus. Eyes of 

 the male very large, connected above : maxillary palpi very hairy : 

 antennae long, slender, but slightly increasing in thickness from the 

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

 verse joints : tibiae with two apical spurs ; fore-tibia? rather short ; 

 posterior tibiae with two spurs at two-thirds of the length : fore-wings 

 pubescent ; apical areolels very long ; cell of the thyridium trian- 

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

 fore border than to the hind border of the wing ; interclaval areolet 

 and cubital areolet unusually broad. 



