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67. ASCALAPHUS SEPULTUS. 



Ferrugineus, supra fusco-hirtus, suit us cano-hirtus ; caput antice 

 nigro-hirtum, fronts nigro ; antennae nigra, gracillima, clava 

 fata subtus basi albida ; abdomen piceum, teslaceo varium, 

 alis paullo brevius ; pedes testacei, tarsis nigris ; ala lim- 

 pid&j parvce, margine postico basi excavato, stigmate sub- 

 limpido. 



Ferruginous, clothed with brown hairs above, with hoary hairs 

 beneath: head thickly clothed between the antennae and the front 

 with black hairs ; front black : antennae black, very slender, a little 

 longer than the wings ; club broad, whitish towards the base be- 

 neath : abdomen pitchy, a little shorter than the wings, with testa- 

 ceous dorsal marks ; underside testaceous : legs testaceous ; tarsi 

 black, testaceous at the base : wings limpid, rather short and nar- 

 row ; stigma hardly coloured, its four veins generally simple; veins 

 black : fore-wings with the subcostal region increasing in breadth 

 for a short distance from the base and from thence parallel to the 

 stigma; hind border with a short and rather deep excavation at the 

 base : hind-wings much shorter and a little narrower than the fore- 

 wings ; subcostal region increasing in breadth for some space from 

 the base, and thence slightly decreasing to the stigma ; hind border 

 with a broad excavation near the base. Length of the body 11 

 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Div. 2. 



Oculi integri. 

 Ascalaphi Olophthalmi, Lefebvre. 



Subdiv. 1. 

 Abdomen planum. 



Sect. 1. 

 Alae latae, non incise nee appendiculatae. 



Byas, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 361. 



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