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each side : legs ferruginous ; tibiae darker than the femora ; tarsi 

 pitchy : wings limpid, rather broad, stigma and veins black ; sub- 

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

 length of the wing, parallel from thence to the stigma ; hind border 

 rather convex towards the base: hind-wings narrower and much 

 shorter than the fore-wings. Length of the body 12 lines; of the 

 wings 26 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



37. ASCALAPHUS SABULOSUS. 



Niger, cinereo-hirtus, subtus cano-hirtus ; caput antice flavum ; 

 antennce basi fulvce, clava latissima testaceo fas data ; abdomen 

 nigro-hirtum, lateribus luteo maculatis et cano fasciculatis ; 

 pedesfulvo varii, tibiis anticis supra testaceis ; alee limpida, 

 parvce, stigmate nigricante. 



Black : head and thorax thickly clothed with gray hairs above 

 and with hoary hairs beneath : head yellow in front and about the 

 eyes : antennae black, comparatively thick, much shorter than the 

 wings, tawny at the base, with a few hairs along the whole length, 

 more towards the base ; club veiy broad, with testaceous bands : 

 abdomen much shorter than the wings, clothed with short black 

 hairs, and along each side with tufts of hoary hairs ; hind borders 

 of the segments with a luteous spot on each side : legs black ; fe- 

 mora at the tips, tibiae and tarsi at the base and at the tips tawny ; 

 fore-tibia? testaceous above : wings limpid, rather short and narrow, 

 yellow at the base ; stigma blackish, comprising four veins ; veins 

 black ; subcostal region decreasing in breadth from near the base to 

 the stigma: hind-wings shorter but not narrower than the fore- 

 wings; hind border very slightly convex. Length of the body 14 

 lines; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



38. ASCALAPHUS IMPOETUNUS. 



Fuscus, graciliS) fusco-hirtus ; caput apud oculos testaceum, subtus 

 albido-hirtum, vertice nigro-hirto ; antennce nigrce^gracillimce^ 

 basi testacece, apicem versus testaceo fasciatce ; abdomen fer- 

 rugineum, gracillirnum, subtus piceum marginibus posticis tes- 

 taceis ; pedes testacei, tar sis ferrugineis, femoribus posticis 

 piceis ; alee angustce, sat longce ,' stigma flavum, in alis posticis 

 fusco maculatum. 



