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short, black hairs, armed with black spines; thighs red, clothed with white 
hairs ; shanks pale yellow, with black tips ; feet black, yellow at the base ; 
claws ferruginous at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings pale gray 
with a slight tawny tinge along the fore border; wing-ribs and veins fer- 
ruginous, the latter pitchy towards the tips; poisers pale ferruginous. 
Length of the body 63—7} lines ; of the wings 10—12 lines. 
New South Wales. 
CHGRADES, n. g. 
Corpus crassum: antennis articulus lus 20 duplo longior; 3us lo et 
20 feré duplo longior: femora postica crassa; tibie postice subarcuate : 
ale longe ; areola 1a postica aperta ; 4a et areola inferior prope marginem 
clause. 
Body stout: second joint of the feelers not more than half the length 
of the first ; third linear for half the length from the base, very slightly 
tapering from thence to the tip, nearly twice the length of the first and 
second joints: hind thighs stout; hind-shanks slightly curved: wings 
long; first posterior areolet quite open; fourth closed near the border ; 
inferior areolet closed near the border. 
Cua@rapEs auricena, Plate 4, fig. 8. 
Fem. Niger, thorace vittis duabus fulvis maculisque sex aureis ornato, ab- 
dominis lateribus aureo maculatis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, 
femoribus rufescentibus, tarsis nigris basi fulvis, alis fulvis apice 
margineque postico cinereis, 
Body black: head adorned with a golden covering, clothed with golden 
hairs ; two black bristles on the eyelets; a row of black bristles behind 
the eyes; face very prominent towards the epistoma, beset with four very 
long and with four shorter bristles : eyes black ; fore part black; its facets 
very much larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the base 
and at the tip with short tawny hairs; palpi black, clothed with black 
hairs; feelers black ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles : 
chest adomed with three golden marks on each side, thinly clothed with 
short tawny hairs ; two indistinct dark tawny stripes on the back, and an 
oblique tawny band along the suture on each side: abdomen linear, 
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