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

 hoary hairs; vertex pitchy, with brown hairs: antenna? black, very 

 slender, much shorter than the wings ; club very broad : thorax with 

 two irregular yellow stripes which are partly united ; underside clothed 

 with hoary hairs: abdomen testaceous, blackish along each side, 

 much shorter than the wings: legs testaceous; tarsi black: wings 

 limpid, rather long; stigma brown; veins black; subcostal region 

 decreasing in breadth from near the base to half the length of the 

 wing, parallel from thence to the stigma ; radial region tinged with 

 brown ; fore-wings excavated at the base of the hind border: hind- 

 wings shorter but very little narrower than the fore-wings, with two 

 pale brown oblique streaks, one along the cubitus, the other beyond 

 and diffused towards the tip. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the 

 wings 33 lines. 



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



47. ASCALAPHUS NUGAX. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput ferrugineum ; antenna nigra ; thorax 

 flavo vittatus ; pectus flavo bifasciatum ; pedes ferruginei ; 

 alee longa, apud costam fulvce^ stigmate fusco, anticce mar- 

 gine postico anguste dilatato, posticce apice fulva. 



Brown, thickly clothed with rather long brown hairs : head 

 ferruginous ; epistoma paler : antenna? black, long, shorter than the 

 wings: thorax with a broad yellow dorsal stripe, and on each side 

 beneath with two oblique yellow bands: abdomen wanting: legs 

 ferruginous : wings long ; stigma dark brown, rather large, with six 

 or seven veins ; veins black : fore-wings bright tawny along the 

 costa from the base to the stigma, with a slender, acute angular dila- 

 tation near the base of the hind border : subcostal region decreasing 

 in breadth from near the base to the middle of the wing, widening 

 from thence to the stigma : hind-wings shorter and narrower than 

 the fore-wings, bright tawny in front along the whole length and 

 about the tips ; subcostal slightly decreasing in breadth from near 

 the base to the middle, parallel from thence to the stigma. Length 

 of the wings 36 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 



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