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near its base, where it is furrowed with very little cross lines, — its 

 sides are covered with yellow hairs of moderate length ; the follow- 

 ing segments successively decreasing in length ; fourth segment 

 with two black stripes, which cease before its hind border; tip 

 clothed with rather long ferruginous hairs ; under-side tawny, 

 shining, not hairy : legs tawny, thinly clothed with yellow hairs ; 

 hips mostly piceous ; shanks and feet armed with yellow spines; 

 claws black, tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; 

 fore legs armed with a long curved ferruginous tooth at the tip of 

 the shank, and with a few corresponding little black tubercles at the 

 base of the foot ; hind legs much longer than the rest : wings co- 

 lourless, with a slight tawny tinge on the fore part ; wing-ribs and 

 veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Dasypogon Hypsaon, n. s., fem. Fulvus, capite cano, abdomine 

 ferrugineo apice nigro, antennis fulvis piceo variis, pedibus fer~ 

 rugineis, tarsis piceis, alls fuscis. 



Body tawny : head hoary, a little broader than the chest, almost 

 hairless ; crown piceous ; clypeus armed with two long pale yellow 

 bristles : eyes dark bronze ; fore part flat, its facets larger than those 

 of the other part : lip and palpi black, the latter thickly clothed 

 with black hairs : feelers tawny ; first joint linear ; second joint 

 subclavate, clothed with a few short black hairs, a little shorter than 

 the first ; third joint spindle-shaped, piceous in the middle part, 

 longer than the first and the second joints : chest hairless, beset 

 with one or two pale yellow bristles on each side ; breast paler : ab- 

 domen ferruginous, smooth, shining, almost hairless, narrower than 

 the chest and full twice its length, increasing in breadth from the 

 base till near the tip ; first segment very short ; second segment 

 with a piceous disk ; third and following segments long ; fifth and 

 following segments mostly black : legs ferruginous, long and slender, 

 clothed with short ferruginous hairs ; shanks with one or two tawny 

 bristles towards the tips ; feet piceous and beset with tawny spines ; 

 claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings dark brown ; wing-ribs 

 ferruginous ; veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



