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57. ASCALAPHUS SURINAMENSIS. 



Capite thoraceque rufo, hirsuto ; abdomine fusco ; alls aureis, stig- 

 matibus fuscis, posticis basi subsinuatis, nubecula lalafusca. 



Ascalaphus Surinamensis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 207, 4, 5. 

 Ascalaphus villosulus, Pal.-Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amer. Neur. pi. 7, 



f. 4, 86. 



Ascalaphus Brasiliensis, Guer. Icon, du Regne Anim. pi. 62. 

 Ascalaphus Alopecinus, Burnt. Handb. Ent. ii. 1000, 5. 



Ascalaphus vulpecula ? Burm Handb. Ent. ii. 1001, 6. Capite 

 thoraceque rufo, hirsuto ; abdomine fusco ; alls aureis, stigmati- 

 bus infuscatis, posticis basi prof unde sinuatis. 



Suhpalasca Surinamensis, Lefebvre, Mag. Zool. 1842. 

 Cordulecerus Surinamensis, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 360. 



a c. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 

 d. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



58. ASCALAPHUS SUBIRATUS. 



Ater, nigro-pilosus ; antenna fulva, nigro annulatce, clava sub- 

 tus testa cea ; thorax testaceo mttatus ; abdomen breve; pedes 

 picei ; alee limpidae, anticce apice subfuscescentes, posticcB basi 

 nigro-fusc(B, fasciisque quatuor posticis obliquis abbreviatis 

 fuscis. 



Deep black, clothed with black hairs, which are very thick on 

 the head between the antenna and the face : antennae tawny, slen- 

 der, as long as the wings; tips of the joints black; club broad, 

 black above, testaceous beneath : thorax with a broad testaceous 

 stripe : abdomen not half the length of the wings : legs pitchy : 

 wings limpid ; stigma deep black ; subcostal region decreasing in 

 breadth, and especially so in the hind-wings, from near the base to 

 the stigma ; wings very slightly notched on the hind border at the 

 tip of the cubitus : fore-wings very slightly tinged with brown at 

 the tips, brown on one-fourth of the length from the base, with the 

 exception of the disks of the areolets which are nearly limpid : 

 hind-wings a little broader and much shorter than the fore-wings, 

 deep brown along more than one-third of the length from the base, 

 with a lurid tinge along the rest of the subcostal region, and with 

 four short oblique brown bands extending from the disk to the hind 



