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1. Cyclotelus lætus Walk. 
ÿ : « Niger, glauco micans , thorace fulvo pubescente, abdominis 
segmentis posterio) ibus omnio nigris apice ferrugineo, antennis piceis 
basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis nigris latis, alis obscure fulvis 
nigro unifasciatis. 
Body black, adorned with bluish-white lustre; eyes adorned with 
iridescent circles, nearly flat in front, where the facets are larger than 
those elsewhere ; sucker pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi black ; 
feelers pitchy, longer than the head; 1. joint tawny, with a pitchy tip ; 
chest indistinctly striped with tawny down; abdomen cylindrical, very 
much longer than the chest, thinly clothed with hoary hairs ; latter 
segments black, clothed with tawny hairs, which are most frequent at 
the ferruginous tip ; legs bright tawny, thinly clothed with short tawny 
hairs ; tips of the feet and fore-knees pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions 
dingy white ; fore-feet black, broad ; wings dark tawny, having at two-thirds 
of the length a broad black band, which fades towards the hind border ; 
wing-ribs and veins dark tawny ; tip cross-vein like that of C. nigroflamma; 
poisers tawny. —Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines. 
South America.» 
2. Cyclotelus nigroflamma Walk. 
5 : « Niger capite cano ; thorace cinereo-fulvo pubescente; abdo¬ 
men argenteo unifasciata apice ferrugineo ; antennis ferrugineis ; pedi¬ 
bus piceis, tibiis anterioribus tarsisque posterioribus fulvis ; alis lim¬ 
pidis antice fulvis postice cinereo nigris nigro-unifasciatis. 
Body black ; head hoary and beset with black bristles behind, 
clothed with black hairs beneath; eyes pitchy, fore-part rather flat, its 
facets a little larger than those elsewhere; palpi pitchy; feelers dark 
ferruginous, hardly longer than the head. Chest indistinctly striped with 
grayish tawny down. Abdomen cylindrical, about twice the length of 
the chest; hind border of the third segment adorned with a silvery 
band ; tip ferruginous, armed with a circlet of short black spines ; legs 
pitchy ; four front-shanks and four hinder feet tawny, tips of the latter 
pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions yellow ; wings colourless, bright tawny 
along the veins beneath the fore border towards the base, grey along 
the hind border and at the tip, adorned at two-thirds of the length with 
a blackish band, which fades towards the hind border; wing-ribs ferru¬ 
ginous ; veins black, tawny for half the length from the base ; tip cross¬ 
vein long, with two curves, the first upward and slight, second downward 
and more distinct; poisers pitchy. — Length of the body 5 7« lines; of 
the wings 9 Vs lines. 
South America.» 
