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MR. R. m'LACHLAN ON A SYSTEMATIC 



beset with short black spine-like hairs ; the wing-like lateral dila- 

 tations of the three terminal segments are reddish brown ; from 

 the last segment beneath projects a triangular valve ; the appen- 

 dices brown, furnished with tufts of black hairs at the tips. 



Wings elongately subtriangular ; costal margin not dilated at 

 the base : network very open ; transverse branch of the lower 

 cubitus confluent with the postcosta in all the wings : poste- 

 rior wings very much shorter than the anterior. 



Antennae shorter than the wings, nearly straight, simple; club 

 very broad ; face very densely villose. 



Eyes having the upper division more than twice as large as the 

 lower. 



Thorax slightly villose above, more densely so on the breast. 



Abdomen with dense tufts of hairs along the sides ; 6 without ap- 

 pendices : very short and broad in the £ - 



Legs with the spurs of the posterior tibiae much shorter than the 

 first tarsal joint. 



Sab. South of France. 



1. P. maculatus, Olivier. (Ascal. maculatus, Oliv. Encyc. Method. 

 i. p. 246. — P. maculatus, Ramb. Nevrop. p. 352, pi. ix. fig. 2. — A. 

 uiger, Borkh. Scrib. Beitr. ii. p. 156, tab. xi. fig. 2 ; Burm. Handb. ii. 

 p. 1002.) 



This beautiful insect seems to be confined to Provence and 

 the neighbouring districts. 



3 know not for what reason Hagen (Stett. Zeit. 1860, p. 53) 

 has deposed Olivier' s name in favour of Borkhausen's ; the former 

 was published at least two years before the latter, and the descrip- 

 tion is quite satisfactory. 



Allied to Puer. In the $ the antennae have each joint inter- 

 nally, excepting those towards the apex, provided with a sharp, 

 back-directed tooth ; and the abdomen has a pair of short very 

 stout appendices, the tips of which are thickened and approximate ; 

 the hairs of the abdomen are not arranged in tufts. 



Hab. India. 



1. A. canifrons, Westwood. (Ascal. (Bubo) canifrons, Westw. Cab. 

 Or. Ent. pi. xxxiv. fig. 3.) 



Genus Puer, Lefebvre. 



Genus Ascalaphodes, n. g. 



