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60. ASCALAPHUS NEMATOCERUS. 



Luteo-fuscus ; abdominis segmentis bilineatis ; antennis longissimia 

 fuscis, clava pallida ; alls hyalinis, stigmate fusco. 



Colobopterus nematocerus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 361, 2. 

 Ascalaphus macrocercus? JBurm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1000, 3. 

 Subpalasca macrocercus, Lefebvre, Mag. ZooL 1842. 



61. ASCALAPHUS GARRULUS. 



S) rufo-hirtus ; caput antice ferrugineum ; antenna nigrce, 

 basi fulva, clava fusiformi subtus alba ; pectus ferrugineum ; 

 abdomen rufum, gracile, nigro varium ; pedes testacei ; ala 

 lurida, amplce, apice subangulatce, stigmate subfusco. 



Brown, very thickly clothed with bright reddish hairs, which 

 form a tuft in front of the head and are there mixed with some 

 brown ones : head ferruginous towards the mouth : antennae black, 

 shorter than the wings, tawny towards the base ; club fusiform, 

 white beneath : thorax ferruginous beneath : abdomen red, slender, 

 very much shorter than the wings ; segments partly black on each 

 side and towards the hind border: legs testaceous: wings lurid, 

 ample, slightly angular at the tips, indistinctly undulating along 

 the hind borders ; stigma pale brown, very small, with two, three, 

 or four veins ; veins black ; longitudinal veins testaceous ; subcostal 

 region slightly decreasing in breadth from near the base to the 

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

 hind border slightly dilated near the base, and more distinctly so 

 before half the length. Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 

 38 lines. 



a. Brazil. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection, 



62. ASCALAPHUS LITIGIOSUS. 



rufo-hirtus; caput antice ferrugineum ; antenna nigra, 

 basi fulvcBi clava fulva fusiformi ; thoracis latera et pectus 

 fusco-hirta ; abdomen nigrum, rufo bimaculatum ; pedes tes* 

 tacei ; alee lurida, amplce, apice subangulatce, posticce basi 

 fuscce, margine postico valde convexo vix dilatato. 



