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64. ASCALAPHUS SUBRIPIENS. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput ferrugineo flavoque varium, apud an- 

 tennas nigro-hirtum, fronte nigro, antennas picece, basifulva 

 et verticillato pilosce, clam subtus basique lestacea ; thorax 

 flavo varius, subtus flavo bivittatus ; abdomen testaceo notatum ; 

 pedes ferruginei, femoribus flavis ; alee limpidce, longce, an- 

 yiistce, margine postico basi excavato, in anticis quoque dila- 

 'tato. 



Deep brown, clothed with brown hairs : head with a tuft of 

 black hairs near the base of the antennae, yellow about the borders 

 of the eyes, ferruginous with yellow spots behind ; front black ; face 

 ferruginous: antennae pitchy, slender, almost as long as the wings, 

 tawny and verlicillate-pilose towards the base ; club narrow, sub- 

 fusiform, testaceous at the base and beneath : thorax varied with 

 yellow ; under side with two broad yellow stripes : abdomen very 

 much shorter than the wings, with testaceous marks along the whole 

 length above and below: legs ferruginous; femora yellow : wings 

 limpid, long and narrow; stigma black, veins black, yellow at the 

 base ; subcostal region slightly increasing in breadth from the base 

 to the stigma: fore-wings slightly excavated at the base of the 

 hind border: hind-wings shorter and narrower than the fore-wings ; 

 hind border dilated at the base, and thence excavated along more 

 than one-third of the length. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the 

 wings 28 lines. 



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



65. ASCALAPHUS IMPAVIDUS. 



Ferrugineo-fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput ferrugineum, apud an- 

 tennas nigro-hirtum^fronte atra ; antenna ferruyine(B,graciles, 

 nigro annulata?, alis longiores, clava apice subtus albida ; ab- 

 domen niyrum ; pedes ferruginei ; alee limpidce, parvce^ mar- 

 gine postico basi excavato et dilatato. 



Ferrugineous brown, thickly clothed with brown hairs : head 

 ferruginous, with black hairs about the base of the antennae ; front 

 deep black : antennae ferruginous, slender, longer than the wings ; 

 tips of the joints black ; club narrow, black, whitish towards the tip 

 beneath : abdomen black, thinly clothed with short hairs, with a 

 hoary tinge towards the base beneath, as long as the hind-wings : 



