CIPTERA. 5 



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, gray 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 ferruginous; veins black, 

 tawny for half the length from the base ; tip cross-vein long, with two 

 curves, the first upward and slight, the other downward and more distinct; 

 poisers pitchy. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 9j lines. 



South America. 



Cyclotelus I'HuiNosus, Plate I. fig, 4. 



Mas. Niger cano micans, thorace fusco pubescente, abdomine piceo (fern. 

 apice ferruginen), antennis nigris lasi fulvis, pedibus nigro-piceis, 

 tihiis anterinribus tarsisque posterioribus fulvis, alls subfuscis ad cos- 

 tam subfulvis, fusco uiiifascialis. 



Body black, adorned with hoary lustre : head beset behind with black 

 bristles, clothed beneath with black hairs : eyes adorned with iridescent 

 semicircles, nearly flat in front, where the facets are larger than those else- 

 where : sucker and palpi black ; tip of the sucker pitchy and clothed with 

 tawny hairs : feelers black, very much longer than the head; first joint 

 tawny, clothed with short black hairs : chest indistinctly striped with pale 

 brown down : abdomen cylindrical, pitchy, very much longer than the 

 chest; second, third and fourth segments impressed with cross rows of 

 little punctures ; appendages of the tip tawny ; tip of the female ferrugi- 

 nous, armed with a circlet of short black spines : legs pitchy l)lack ; knees, 

 four hinder feet towards the base, and four front-shanks taAvny ; claws 

 black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings ])alo brown, with a tawny tinge 

 along the fore border, and having at two-thirds of the length a broad 

 brown band which f;ulcs towards the hind border ; Aving-ribs ferruginous ; 

 veins black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; tip cross- 

 vein like that of C. nigrofiamma ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body l] 

 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 



South America. 



