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33. ASCALAPHPS IMMOTUS. x 



Fuscus ; caput fulvum, albo-hirtum, antice subtusque flavum ; an- 

 tennae nigrce, basi fulvce ; thorax ceneo -fuscus, flavo varius ; 

 abdomen flavum, vittis duabus lateralibus unaque ventrali 

 nigris ; pedesflavi; alee limpidce, breviusculce, basi subflaves- 

 centes. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs: head tawny, clothed with 

 white hairs, pale yellow in front and beneath, with some black 

 hairs on the vertex : antennae black, very slender, tawny at the 

 base, much shorter than the wings ; club broad : thorax slightly 

 aeneous, with an interrupted yellow stripe, and with yellow marks on 

 each side and on the hind borders of the segments : prothorax and 

 metathorax almost wholly yellow : abdomen yellow, very much 

 shorter than the wings, with a black stripe interrupted by yellow 

 spots on each side, and one beneath : legs yellow ; tarsi tawny to- 

 wards the tips : wings limpid, rather short, with a very slight yellow 

 tinge at the base ; stigma dark brown, comprising six veins ; sub- 

 costal region decreasing in breadth from near the base to half the 

 length of the wing, from whence to the stigma it is parallel : hind- 

 wings shorter and narrower than the fore-wings, broadest before half 

 the length. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a. China. Presented by G. T. Laye, Esq. 



34. ASCALAPHUS PROCAX. 



Ferrugineus, fulvo-hirtm ; caput flavum, antice albo-hirtum, ver- 

 tice ferrugineo fusco-hirto ; antennae ferruginece, clava lata 

 nigra; pectus testaceum ; abdomen rufescens, subtus nigro 

 mttatwn ; pedes testacei ; alee limpidce, sublatce, stigmateflavo. 



Ferruginous, thickly clothed with tawny hairs : head pale yel- 

 low, clothed in front with white hairs ; vertex ferruginous, clothed 

 with brown hairs : antennae ferruginous, much shorter than the 

 wings ; club broad, black : thorax testaceous beneath : abdomen 

 reddish, with a black stripe beneath, much shorter than the hind- 

 wings : legs testaceous : wings limpid, rather broad ; stigma pale 

 yellow, with rive veins in the fore-wings, and with four veins in the 

 hind-wings ; veins black, those towards the base and the whole of the 

 subcosta and of the radius testaceous ; subcostal region of the fore- 

 wings slightly decreasing in breadth from near the base to half the 



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