CLASSIFICATION OF THE ASCALA PftlDiE. 



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Q-enus Nepuoneura, n. g. 

 (Proctarrelabris, part. Lrfebv."?) 



Wings elongate and rather broad ; anterior pair narrow at the 

 base and appendiculate ; posterior pair longly and shallowly 

 excised on the inner margin : network moderately dense ; 

 branch of the lower cubitus in the posterior wings confluent 

 with the postcosta. 



Antenna considerably shorter than the anterior wings, strong, 

 straight, the base furnished with verticillate hairs ; club shortly 

 and broadly pyriform, almost truncate ; a dense tuft of hairs 

 on the face and between the antennae. 



Eyes with the divisions nearly equal. 



Thorax robust, slightly villose above and densely so on the breast. 

 Abdomen shorter than the wings ; in the 6 furnished with long, 



forcipate, terminal, simple appendices. 

 Legs with the spurs of the posterior tibiae scarcely exceeding the 



first tarsal joint. 

 Hah. South Africa. 



Species. 



1. N. capensjs, Fab. (AscaL capensis, F. Spec. Ins. i. p. 400; Ent. 

 Syst. ii. p. 96.) Frons vertexque dense cinereo-brunneoque pilosi. 

 Antennae rufae, pallido annulatae ; clava nigra. Thorax fusco-testa- 

 ceoque varius ; infra linea utrinque albida. Pedes rufo-picei ; tibiis 

 ad basim apicemque, et in medio, flavo-semicinctis. Abdomen fus- 

 cum ; marginibus posticis segmentoruin, supraque maculis obliquis, 

 nigris. Appendicibus S rufescentibus, intus breviter nigro-spinosis. 

 Alse hyalinse, longitudinaliter brunneo-strigatee ; maculis in area sub- 

 costali, marginibusque venularum costalium, rosaceis ; venis principa- 

 libus rufescentibus, venulis nigris, plerumque brunnneo-nebulosis vel 

 marginatis ; pterostigmate rufescente. Long. corp. 13"'; exp. alar, 

 antic. 32"', postic. 27"'. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. In my collection and in Brit. Mus. 



This is certainly the true Fabrician capensis, according to the 

 type in the Banksian Collection now in the British Museum. 

 Fabricius does not mention the appendiculate wings, and his 

 description fails to indicate the rosy markings ; but the descrip- 

 tion was drawn up from an unexpanded example. 



2. N. collusor, nov. sp. N. capcnsi affinis, differt alishaud strigatis, 

 venulis (costalibus exceptis) haud marginatis ; maculis subcostalibus 

 plus infuscatis ; tibiis extus dimidio basali flavido, vix interrupto : 



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