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their tips pitchy : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints tawny, the 

 angles of their tips produced into horns ; third joint slightly convex be- 

 neath, armed above with a very long, dark ferruginous horn, which is 

 curved downward, and extends to half the length of the compound joint ; 

 the latter is black, very slightly curved upward, shorter than the third 

 joint : chest and brenst pale tawny, clothed with yellow hairs ; disk of the 

 chest black : abdomen brown, obconical, very much longer than the chest ; 

 first segment and hind borders of the following segments tawny, clothed 

 with yellow hairs ; under side tawny : legs tawny ; feet black ; hind-shanks 

 and tips of hind-thighs pitchy ; fore-shanks and middle-shanks whitish, 

 the former with pitchy tips ; foot-cushions tawny ; hairs varying in colour 

 according to the parts which they clothe : wings nearly colourless, tawny 

 beneath the fore border which is brown, adorned near the hind border with 

 three large brown spots ; the first near the base ; the second in the middle, 

 doubly connected with the third, which extends to the fore border ; wing- 

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

 base ; scales tawny ; poisers tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length of 

 the body 4 J — 5^ lines ; of the wings 9 — 11 lines. 



Para. 



DiCHELACEEA PR^TEREUNS, Plate 2, fig. (). 



Fem. Picca, cnpite subtus fulvn, thorace vittis (jualiior lividis ornato, aii- 

 tennis ferru(/ineis apice piceis, pedibus fen'u/jineis, tarsis anlicia fc' 

 maribusque aigrix, alts fiiscis limpido variis ad costam fulvis. 



Body pitchy : head dark brown above, dark tawny in front and be- 

 neath where it is clothed with tawny hairs : eyes dark bronze, parted above 

 by a moderately broad interval ; all the facets small : sucker black ; lancets 

 tawny ; palpi ferruginous, long, slender : feelers dark ferruginous ; first 

 and second joints clothed with black hairs; horn nearly as long as the 

 third joint, whence it springs, much curved downward, ending in a bristle ; 

 compound joint pitchy, hairy, hardly curved upward, much shorter than 

 the third joint: chest adorned with four livid stripes, the side pair are in- 

 distinct : abdomen pitchy black, linear, conical towards the tip, clothed 

 with short black hairs, twice the length of the chest; hind border of the 

 fourth segment fringed with short white hairs : legs dark ferruginous, 

 clothed with very short black hairs; thighs black, tinged with brown, 

 clothed with darlc fawuv hairs ; claws and forc-fect black : wings dark 



