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fourth and fifth segments a little longer ; sixth segment a little 

 shorter; seventh segment still shorter : legs bright tawny, clothed 

 with tawny hairs (which are very long on the thighs and on the 

 shanks of the four front legs), and beset with spines and bristles, 

 nearly all of which are on the feet ; hips and trochanters black ; 

 claws black, tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions yellow : wings 

 dark brown, with a slight purple lustre ; disks of the areolets paler ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers piceous. Length of the body 11 

 lines ; of the wings 19 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. D. F. Morgan. 



Laphria Keinwardtii, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 503, 7. 

 a. Java. 



Group IV. 



Laphria Amandus, n. s. Nigra, capite pectoreque cinereis, abdomine 

 rufo lateribus nigris, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis 

 basi costd venarumque marginibus subfulvis. 



Head gray, a little narrower than tbe chest, very thickly clothed 

 with long white hairs, and beset behind with a cross row of tawny 

 bristles : some black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets : eyes 

 bronze-black, flat or very slightly concave in front, where the facets 

 are large, but the division of the eye into two regions is not very 

 distinct : clypeus and front clothed with white down, the former be- 

 set with long black bristles : lip black, about twice the length of 

 the head, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; tongue thickly 

 beset witb black bristles ; palpi black, clothed with black hairs and 

 bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints clothed with white 

 hairs and black bristles ; second joint not half the length of the 

 first, slightly club-shaped ; third joint nearly linear, a little longer 

 than the first and the second joints: neck short, with a cross 

 furrow : chest black, adorned with five dark ferruginous stripes, and 

 with two oblique bands on each side between the outer and inner 

 pair of these stripes ; outer stripes covered with a shining white 

 bloom ; sides and hind part of chest, and scutcheon, beset with 

 black bristles ; hind border of the scutcheon dark ferruginous : hind 

 chest and breast hoary, the latter thickly clothed with long white 

 hairs : abdomen dark red, clothed with short black hairs, black along 

 each side, which is clothed with black and white hairs, among which 

 are some dark red bristles with white tips ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments clothed with short tawny hairs ; under-side red, shining : legs 

 black, long, clothed with long white hairs ; hind thighs and hind 



