43 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



tbe other roiiiul : eyes brassy, parted above by a rather broad interval ; all 

 the fecets very small : sucker black ; lancets pale ferrujtinous ; palpi yel- 

 low, clothed towards the tips with very short black hairs : feelers pale 

 ferruginous : first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; 

 third joint angular above, very slightly convex beneath; compound joint 

 black, rather long, very slightly curved upward : abdomen pitchy, slightly 

 obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest, adorned with three 

 pale tawny stripes ; the middle stripe distinct and linear, the side pair irre- 

 gular and less distinct ; under side tawny : legs tawny ; thighs gray, 

 clothed with pale tawny hairs ; feet and tips of shanks pitchy ; feet be- 

 neath and foot-cushions ferruginous ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle 

 to the tips, and fore-feet black : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 

 black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; a curve but no 

 angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales almost colourless, 

 with tawny borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



South America ? 



African Species. 



Tadanus Noctis, Mas. 

 Niger, capite antico fusco, alis fusco-suhnigris apice cinerels. 



Body dull black, clothed with short black hairs : front of the head 

 tinged with brown, clothed with short black hairs : eyes very large, di- 

 vided into two distinct regions ; hinder region black, occupying the whole 

 upper surface, its facets very large, but gradually decreasing in size to- 

 wards the hind border ; fore region coppery, much larger than that of T. 

 atratus, separated from the other by a straight line, composed of very small 

 facets : sucker, palpi and feelers black : angle of the third feeler-joint very 

 shatloiv : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; foot-cushions dark 

 tawny : wings blackish, darkest beneath the fore border at three-fourths of 

 the length, gray towards the tips ; a yellowish brown tinge at the base and 

 along the borders of the veins ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black ; veins 

 like those of T. atratus ; scales blackish, fringed with short dark tawny 

 hairs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Cape. 



