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54. ASCALAPHUS MICROCEPHALUS. 



Obscure rufescens, cano-pilosus ; caput parvum; antenna flava 

 nigro annulatce, clava obscura ; thorax nigro varius ; pedes 

 rufi 9 tarsis nigro subannulatis ; alee hyalince, angustce, venis 

 stigmateque rufescentibus . 



Ulula microcephala, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 359, 4. 

 a. St. Lucia. Presented by W. Muter, Esq. 



55. ASCALAPHUS SUBVERTENS. 



Testaceo-fuscus^fusco-hirtus ; caput flavum, albo-hirtum ; antenna 

 nigrce ; prothorax albo-hirtus ; abdomen testaceum, strigis ob- 

 liquis lateralibus nigris, subtus piceum ; pedes testacei, tarsis 

 fcrrugineis; alee limpidce, margine costali subfuscescentes, pos- 

 ticce apicefusco maculatce. 



Teslaceous brown, thickly clothed with brown hairs: head 

 yellow, very thickly clothed with white hairs and with a few brown 

 hairs; hind part with a brown spot on. each side: lower division of 

 the eyes more than half the length and breadth of the upper divi- 

 sion: prothorax clothed with white hairs: abdomen testaceous, 

 pitchy beneath, much shorter than the wings ; second and third fol- 

 lowing segments with an oblique black streak on each side: legs 

 testaceous, tarsi ferruginous : v ings limpid, of moderate size ; stigma 

 white, comprising four veins ; veins black, with the exception of 

 those by the stigma ; subcostal region hardly decreasing in breadth 

 from the base to the stigma, slightly tinged with brown : hind-wings 

 shorter and a little narrower than the fore- wings, having between 

 the stigma and the tip a large brown spot which is darkest in front. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



56. ASCALAPHUS INHONESTUS. 



Ferrugineus, nigro-hirtus ; caput antice albo-hirtum^ facie testacea ; 

 antennce testacece, nigro annulatce, clava nigra ; abdomen la- 

 teribus nigro strigatis, subtus nigrum; pedes teslacei ; alee 

 limpidce, sat breves, anticce stigmate flavo, posticce stigmate 

 niyro, apicem versus fusco maculates. 



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