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placed in the dark fascia. Legs pale yellow, with numerous black 

 spines ; the tarsi beneath very thickly spinous ; spurs and claws 

 piceous. Abdomen yellowish, with brown rings; terminal segment 

 provided with numerous short black spines. 

 The single example of this curious species was taken at Baghdad 

 during Sir Henry Loftus's expedition to Persia. 



Genus Ceeaqeis, Hagen. 



Cbeagris nigro-strigatus, n. sp. Nigricans, brunneo varius. An- 

 tennas nigrse, tenuiter flavo annulatae ; clava obtusa, subtus excavata. 

 Prothorax longior quam latior, antice angustior, marginibus laterali- 

 bus rectis. Alse elongatse, subfalcatse, fere sequales, hyalinae : anticse 

 vittis nigris, quarum una subcostali, altera obliqua submedia, longis, 

 caeteris inter has brevioribus; margine dorsali ante medium litera V 

 nigro signato ; punctis nigris numerosis ; pterostigmate nigro, externc 

 albido ; venis albidis nigrisque : postica; auticis angustiores, ad apicem 

 acutiores ; punctis paucis apicicalibus nigris ; pterostigmate albido. 

 Pedes nigri, brunneo varii, nigro spinosi, cano hirsuti. Abdomen 

 supra nigrum, infra griseo-ochraceum, sparse cano pilosum. I.oug. 

 Corp. 1" 2'"; exp. alar. 2" 7"- 



Hob. Natalia. In collect, auctoris. 



Blackish ; thorax varied with brown. Antennce about the length of the 

 thorax, stout ; the club gradually formed and very obtuse, the under- 

 side of it concave : black, finely and closely annulated with yellowish 

 ochreous ; these annulations are broader on the club ; the basal joint 

 beneath wholly ochreous. Head dull blackish, the mouth yellowish 

 ochreous ; labial palpi with the last two joints nearly equal in length, 

 the last in the form of an elongate shining black club. Prothorax rather 

 longer than broad, the lateral margins nearly parallel for more than 

 half their length, the anterior portion suddenly contracted, so that the 

 prothorax here is much narrower than the other part, the anterior 

 angles rounded; the anterior margin nearly straight, slightly excavated; 

 an evident transverse impressed line proceeds across the prothorax at 

 the commencement of the contraction, and the anterior part beyond 

 this line is slightly elevated, forming a sort of collar ; the colour is 

 blackish varied with reddish brown. Mesothorax much broader than 

 the prothorax, the anterior lobe placed in a deep emargination of the 

 lateral lobes and with a deep longitudinal median impressed line, the 

 hinder margin straight, coloured as in the prothorax. Metathorax 

 narrower than the mesothorax. Wings elongate, broadest beyond the 

 middle, the apex acute, the apical margin excised, hence giving the apex 

 a subfalcate form : anterior wings with broad black vittse, of which 

 one commences at the base and extends to the pterostigma, occupying 

 the whole subcostal space and margining the radius on its lower edge, 

 another commences also at the base, following the course of the fifth 



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