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part of the chest beset with a few black bristles ; scutcheon adorned with a 
thick tuft of bright pale yellow hairs: abdomen adorned with three bands of 
bright pale yellow hairs, which occupy more than half the length from the 
base; a few pale yellow hairs on the tip: legs pitchy, thickly clothed with 
black hairs ; knees red; feet armed with black spines; claws towards the 
base and foot-cushions tawny; hind-shanks clothed with bright pale yel- 
low hairs; four front feet dark red: wings brown, adorned with purple 
reflections; wing-ribs dark ferruginous ; yeins black, dark ferruginous to- 
wards the base; poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 5}—7 lines; 
of the wings 14—18 lines. 
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Brazil. - 
Marropnora conrraria, Mas. 
Atra, eapite subtus flavo, thorace nigro-fusco, antennis nigris basi fulvis, 
femoribus nigris, tibiis tarsisque anterioribus rufis, tibiis tarsisque 
posticis piceis, alis nigro-fuscis. 
Body deep black, clothed with black hairs: head adorned above with a 
ferruginous covering, pale yellow behind and beneath, where it is thickly 
clothed with yellowish-white hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; 
face convex and thickly beset with black bristles in front: eyes slightly 
bronzed: sucker clothed at the tip with yellow hairs; palpi very thickly 
beset with black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints tawny, beset 
with black bristles: chest and breast slightly tinged with very dark brown: 
thighs black, clothed with black hairs, red towards the tips; claws black, 
tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions tawny ; four front-shanks and feet 
red; four front shanks thickly clothed with bright pale yellow hairs above 
and thinly with black hairs beneath ; four front feet clothed with pale 
tawny hairs, armed with black and pale red spines ; hind-shanks and hind- 
feet pitchy, clothed with short black and long white hairs, beset with black 
bristles and spines: wings dark brown, adorned with purple reflections; 
Wing-ribs and veins dark ferruginous ; poisers tawny. Length of the body ‘ 
7 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 7" 
South America. 
