1'2 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



tawny bristles ; horn longer than the third joint whence it springs, curved 

 downward, beset wilh long black bristles ; compound joint much curved 

 upward, not so compact as is usual, but long and slender, and composed 

 of joints of equal size: abdomen much broader but not longer than the 

 chest, tawny beneath ; the tip bright tawny above, clothed beneath with 

 pale yellow hairs : legs tawny ; feet brown towards the tips ; claws black : 

 wings pale brown, darker along the fore border and at the base ; wing- 

 ribs and veins tawny; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle near the 

 base ; posterior submarginal areolet closed at some distance from the 

 border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 

 lines. 



Para. 



Pangonia exeuns. Fern. 



Ferruginea, thoracis disco piceo, abdomine rufo, palpisfulvis, antennis fer- 

 rugineis basi fulvis apice nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, alis aubcinereis 

 ad cos tarn fulvis. 



Body pale ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs : head thickly clothed 

 beneath with yellow hairs ; eyes black, clothed with tawny hairs ; fore part 

 flat, its facets not larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, nearly half 

 the length of the body ; palpi tawny, triangular, very short ; lancets ferru- 

 ginous : feelers ferruginous with black tips ; first and second joints tawny, 

 short, beset with black bristles ; third joint narrower than the first and the 

 second, diminishing towards the tip ; the following joints are closely united 

 with the third, and appear like a single one which is pointed and slightly 

 curved, and whose divisions successively decrease in breadth : disk of the 

 chest pitchy : abdomen dark red, oval, shining, much longer and broader 

 than the chest ; sides clothed with black hairs ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments clothed on each side with tawny hairs : legs ferruginous, clothed 

 with short black hairs ; hind legs darker than the two other pair ; foot- 

 cushions pale tawny ; claws black : wings slightly gray, tawny along the 

 fore border for three-fourths of the length ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; 

 tips of the veins black ; scales and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 1 5 lines. 



Brazil. 



