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tubercle of the eyelets armed with black bristles ; front and clypeus 

 thickly clothed with long pale yellow hairs ; clypeus prominent, 

 armed also with long black and pale yellow bristles -.. eyes black ; 

 fore part slightly convex, its facets larger than those of the other 

 part : lip black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi 

 black, clothed with long whitish hairs : feelers black ; first and se- 

 cond joints beset with short black bristles; first joint also clothed 

 with short whitish hairs; second joint about half the length of the 

 first ; third joint spindle-shaped, longer than the first ; bristle nearly 

 twice the length of the third joint : chest and breast grayish tawny : 

 chest clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each side and be- 

 hind with black bristles, tawny on the disk, adorned with four brown 

 stripes ; middle pair of stripes narrow, linear ; side pair broader, ir- 

 regular, interrupted : sides of the chest and hind chest with a hoary 

 tinge: abdomen brown, narrower than the chest, and more than 

 twice its length, tapering from the base to the tip, clothed with short 

 tawny hairs, which on each side towards the base are replaced 

 | by longer and more numerous hairs ; first and second segments very 

 i short ; second segment arched, armed on each side with black bris- 

 tles ; third and following segments long, successively decreasing in 

 length, clothed on the hind borders with short black hairs ; sexual 

 parts dark red, shining : legs dark red, clothed with short tawny 

 hairs, armed with black spines ; hips and thighs piceous, the former, 

 and especially the fore pair, clothed with tawny hairs; claws black ; 

 foot-cushions dark tawny : wings dark tawny ; disks of the areolets 

 almost colourless ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers piceous. Length of 

 the body 16 — 17 lines ; of the wings 24 — 25 lines. 



Asilus Corymeta, n. s., mas. et fern. Mas. Fuscus, thoracis vittis 

 tribus pallidioribus, pectore cinereo, abdominis apice ferrugineo, 

 antennis nigris apice piceis, pedibus rujis, femoribus piceis, alis 

 fusco-fulvis. Fern. Thoracis vittis ferrugineis, abdominis apice 

 nigro nitente. 



Male, — Head narrower than the chest, covered with pale yel- 

 low down, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow 

 hairs, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; tubercle of 

 the eyelets armed with a cluster of black bristles ; crown pale brown, 

 clothed on each side with pale yellow hairs and black bristles ; cly- 

 peus prominent, very thickly beset with pale yellow bristles,' and 

 also armed with two or three black bristles in the front : eyes dark 

 bronze ; fore part flat, very distinct from the other part, and com- 

 posed of much larger facets : lip black, clothed at the tip with short 

 tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with long pale yellow hairs: first and 



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