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2. I.(?) OBSCURus, Westwood. (Ascal. (Haplogl.) obacurus, Westw. 

 Cab. Or. Ent.) 



I can say nothing as to tliis species ; the type is no longer in 

 existence, or cannot be found : I am acquainted with no Asiatic 

 species with simple eyes, excepting L decrepitus. 



-f Genus Melambhotus, n. g. 



Wings long and very narrow, the inner margin longly excised at 



the base, afterwards the inner and costal margins are nearly 



parallel ; anterior pair appendiculate : network rather close ; 



transverse branch of the lower cubitus confluent with the 



postcosta in all the wings. 

 Aniennce short and stout, nearly straight, only about half the 



length of the wings, without hairs at the base ; club roundly 



capitate. 

 Thorax slightly villose above, densely so on the breast. 

 Abdomen about the length of the wings, subcylindrical, without 



appendices in the S . 

 Legs very short and strongly spinous ; spurs of the posterior 



tibije as long as the first two tarsal joints. 

 Sab. South-west Africa. 



A remarkable genus, founded on the single species described 

 below : the wings are narrower, and the antennae shorter, than in 

 any other genus of Ilolophthalmi, and the facies altogether pecu- 

 liar. In the posterior wings the branch of tlie lower cubitus is 

 almost obsolete, scarcely distinguishable from the ordinary trans- 

 verse vciulets, owing to the space betwce]i the veins being so 



greatly narrowed. 



Species. 



-;■ 1. M. SIMIA., nov. sp. Frons cinereo-pilosus. Vertex transverse fusco 

 et flavo-varius, fusco-villosus. Antennae flavae; clava intus nigro 

 tenuiter semicincta. Thorax fusco-griseus, testaceo-varius, supra 

 sparse fusco-pilosus, infra dense cinereo-villosus ; supra maculis tri- 

 bus, quarum duae piinctiformes, altera transversa, setnihmata, nigris, 

 late cinereo-cinctis, vel marginatis. Pedes nigri, cinereo-pilosi, ni- 

 gro-spinosis ; tibiis ad basin obscure testaceis. Abdominis dimi- 

 diura basale cinereum, nigro-punctatum, apicale nigrum. Ala; vi- 

 trefe, striga subcostali e basi usque ad apicera extensa, in aream 

 poststigmaticalem dilatata, nigra, ornatfe ; veriis venulisque plerum- 

 que nigris, nonnuUis albidis ; pterostigmate flavido, intus nigro-notato 

 (J). Long. Corp. 14'" ; exp. alar, antic. 32'". 

 Hab. Damara Land (Andersson). In my collection. 



