CLASSIFICATION OF THE ASCALAPHTBiR. 269 



4" &enus Nephoneuba, n. g. 

 (Proctarrelabris, part. Lefehv. ?) 



Wings elongate aud rather broad ; anterior pair narrow at the 

 base and appendiculate ; posterior pair longly and shallowly 

 excised on the inner margin : network moderately dense ; 

 branch of the lower cubitus in the posterior wings confluent 

 with the postcosta. 



Antennce considerably shorter than the anterior wings, strong, 

 straight, the base furnished with verticillate hairs ; club shortly 

 and broadly pyriform, almost truncate ; a dense tuft of hairs 

 on the face and between the antennae. 



Eyes with the divisions nearly equal. 



Thorax robust, slightly villose above and densely so on the breast. 



Abdomen shorter than the wings ; in the 6 furnished with long, 

 forcipatc, terminal, simple appendices. 



Legs with the spurs of the posterior tibiae scarcely exceeding the 

 first tarsal joint. 



Hah. South Africa. 



Species. 



1. N. CAPENSis, Fab. (Ascal. capensis, F. Spec. Ins. i. p. 400; Ent. 

 Syst. ii. p. f)6.) Frons vertexque dense cinereo-brunneoque pilosi. 

 Antennae nifae, pallido annulatae ; clava nigra. Thorax fuseo-testa- 

 ceoque varius ; infra linea utiinque albida. Pedes rufo-picei ; tibiis 

 ad basira apicemque, et in medio, flavo-semicinctis. Abdomen fus- 

 cum ; marginibus posticis segmentorum, supraque niaculis obliquis,- 

 iiigvis. Appendieibus $ rufesccntibus, intus brcviter nigro-spinosis. 

 Aire byalinse, longitudinaliter brunneo-strigatse ; maculis in area sub- 

 costali, marginibusque venularum costalium, rosaceis ; venis principa- 

 libus rufesccntibus, venulis nigris, plerumque brunnneo-nebulosis vel 

 marginatis; pterostigmate rufescente. Long. corp. 13'"; exp. alar, 

 antic. 32'", postic. 27'". 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. In my collection and in Brit. Mus, 

 This is certainly the true Fabrician capensis, according to the 

 type in the Banksian Collection now in the British Museum. 

 Fabricius does not mention the appendiculate wings, and his 

 description fails to indicate the rosy markings ; but the descrip- 

 tion was drawn up from an unexpanded example. 



2. N. coLLUSOR, nov. sp. N. capensi affinis, differt alishaud strigatis, 

 venulis (costalibus cxceptis) baud marginatis ; maculis subcostalibus 

 plus infuscatis ; tibiis extus dimidio basnli flavido, vix interrupto : 



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