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claws tawny at the base ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings light 

 gray, darker on the disks of the segments towards the tips ; wing- 

 ribs piceous ; veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 9 

 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. ? 



Asilus inglorius ? Macleay, King, Narr. Surv, Austral, ii. 467, 182 



Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 644, 63. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Asilus Amycla, n. s., fem. Fulvus, antennis fulvis apice nigris, 

 pedibus rufis y coxis, genubus tarsisque nigris, alis subfulvis 



Head nearly as broad as the chest, thickly clothed behind and 

 beneath with white hairs, beset behind the eyes with tawny bristles ; 

 tubercle of the eyelets beset with a few black hairs ; clypeus thickly 

 armed with white hairs and bristles ; front clothed with white hairs: 

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

 of the other part : lip black, clothed at the tip with short tawny 

 hairs : first and second joints of the feelers tawny ; first joint 

 clothed with short tawny hairs ; second joint beset with short black 

 bristles; third joint black, long, tapering from the base to the tip ; 

 bristle a little longer than the third joint : chest dull tawny, beset 

 on each side and behind with stout black bristles, clothed behind 

 with a few tawny hairs : breast pale tawny, with a hoary tinge : ab- 

 domen narrower than the chest, and nearly twice its length, tapering 

 from the base to the tip, clothed with tawny hairs, tawny with an 

 interrupted black stripe on the back, paler and with a hoary tinge 

 beneath ; first and second segments very short ; third and following 

 segments long, successively decreasing in length : legs red, clothed 

 with tawny hairs, armed with black spines ; hips, knees, and feet 

 black ; foot-cushions tawny ; shanks and feet covered beneath with 

 thick tawny down : wings slightly tawny ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; 

 veins piceous ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the 

 wings 22 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



Asilus Amythaon, n. s., fem. Fuscus, capite fulvo, thoracis vittis 

 quatuor nigro-fuscis, pectore cano, abdomine rufo apice nigro, 

 pedibus rufis, tarsis nigris, alis subcinereis. A. Sydneensis ? 



Body light brown : head pale tawny, a little narrower than the 

 chest, clothed behind and beneath with white hairs, furnished with 

 some black hairs on the crown, beset behind the eyes with a row of 

 black bristles ; clypeus armed behind with long black hairs, and be- 

 fore with longer pale yellow bristles : eyes black ; fore part quite flat, 

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