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rate size, with an impression on each side ; eighth and ninth seg- 

 ments very small : legs red, clothed with tawny hairs ; hips black, 

 clothed with hoary hairs ; shanks and feet beset with black spines ; 

 shanks with a silvery lustre at the base ; feet and claws black ; foot- 

 cushions tawny ; hind thighs not thick ; hind shanks slightly curved ; 

 wings pale brown, colourless towards the base ; wing-ribs and veins 

 piceous, the latter black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines.; 



The little cross-vein in the disk is double in one wing of the 

 specimen described. 



a. New York. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Lapheia Antaea, n. s. Nigra, pilis nigris vestita, pectore pilis non- 

 nullis canis, abdomine rufo pilisque rufis vestito, antennis pedi- 

 busque nigris, alis cinereo-fuscis. 



Body black, shining, head as broad as the chest, clothed with 

 black hairs, which are most frequent beneath ; a stripe of short white 

 hairs on each side of the front between the clypeus and the base of 

 the feelers ; clypeus armed with a tuft of long black bristles : eyes 

 bronze-black ; fore part flat, with large facets, and very distinct from 

 the other part : lip black, shining, a little longer than the head, 

 clothed with black hairs at the base ; its tip covered with short taw- 

 ny hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints clothed with short 

 black hairs ; first joint linear ; second joint not near half the length 

 of the first ; third joint nearly linear, rather narrower at the base 

 and near the tip, about twice the length of the first and of the second 

 joints : chest and breast punctured, thinly clothed with short black 

 hairs, the former beset with a few black bristles on each side, the 

 latter partly clothed with longer hoary hairs : abdomen bright red, 

 punctured, clothed with very short red hairs, nearly as broad as the 

 chest and about twice its length, very slightly convex ; segments 

 impressed on each side, successively increasing in length from the 

 first to the sixth ; seventh segment a little shorter than the sixth ; 

 eighth and ninth segments very short, the latter black : legs black, 

 clothed with short black hairs and with a few black bristles ,* claws 

 black ; foot-cushions tawny ; feet clothed beneath with dark tawny 

 down ; hind thighs thick, and armed with short slender black teeth, 

 which are ferruginous at the base : wings very dark brown with a 

 slight bluish lustre, pale along the hind borders, where some of the 

 areolets have pale gray spots in the middle ; wing-ribs and veins 

 black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 5 — 5| lines ; of the wings 

 9—10 lines. 



Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

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