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74. ASCALAPHUS IMPEDIENS. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus; caput anticum maris testaceum, fcemince 

 ferrugineum ; antenna nigrce ; thorax fascia antica nittisque 

 duabus testaceis; pectus albido-testaceo bivittatum ; abdomen 

 testaceo vittatum; pedes picei, femoribus tibiisque testaceo 

 vittatis ; alee lirnpidce, basifuscce, stigmate maris sublimpido, 

 famines subfusco. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs : head of the female with 

 black hairs about the base of the antennae ; front and face of the 

 male testaceous, of the female ferruginous : antennae black, very 

 slender, much longer in the male than in the female, much shorter 

 than the wings : thorax with a testaceous stripe along each side and 

 a testaceous band in front ; underside with two broad whitish testa- 

 ceous stripes : abdomen long, much shorter than the wings, shorter 

 in the male than in the female, with a testaceous dorsal stripe along 

 more than half the length and with some testaceous streaks on each 

 side : legs pitchy ; femora and tibia3 with testaceous stripes : wings 

 limpid, brown at the base ; stigma hardly coloured in the male, pale 

 brown in the female, comprising four veins; veins black ; subcostal 

 region decreasing in breadth on the hind-wings, but hardly so on 

 the fore-wings, from near the base to the stigma : hind-wings much 

 shorter but not narrower than the fore-wings ; their greatest breadth 

 at one-third of the length from the base, where the fore border is 

 most convex. Length of the body 12J 13^ lines ; of the wings 

 33 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b. Santarem, Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



75. ASCALAPHUS DAMNOSUS. 



Fuscus, albido-hirtus ; caput testaceum, subtus flavum, apud an- 

 tennas nigro-hirtum, vertice piceo ; antennae nigrce ; thorax 

 flavo varius ; abdomen nigrum, subtus testaceo vittatum ; pedes 

 testacei, tibiis supra fuscis, tarsis nigris ; alee hyalines, longce, 

 latce^ apice fuscce. 



Brown, clothed with whitish hairs : head testaceous, yellow be- 

 neath : vertex pitchy ; a tuft of black hairs about the base of the 

 antennae : antennae black, slender, very much shorter than the wings : 

 segments of the thorax with yellow marks and borders : abdomen 



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