70 TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



brown, dark tawny along the fore border as far as the brand which is 

 blackish, paler along the hind border and on the disks of the areolets ; 

 three of the latter have colourless streaks ; the tip and a large spot beneath 

 the middle of the fore border are also colourless ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; 

 veins black, ferruginous at the base, tawny along the fore border and in the 

 colourless parts of the wings ; curve of the tip cross-vein very decided, but 

 hardly angular ; scales and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 6| lines ; 

 of the wings 14 lines. 

 South Amei'ica. 



DiCHF.LACERA VACILLAMS, Fcm. 



Picea, capite antico fulvo subtus cann, peclore ventreque canescentihus ah- 

 domine nif/ro, segmcntorum marcjimhus posticis lividis, antennis fiili-is, 

 apice nit/ris, pedibus nigris, iibiis piceis, alls cincreis,fuseo fasciatis 

 ad costam fulvis. 



Body dark brown : head tawny in front, hoary and clothed with white 

 hairs beneath ; eyes bronze, parted above by a rather narrow interval ; 

 facets very small, but slightly increasing in size as they approach the inner 

 fore border : sucker black ; lancets pale ferruginous ; palpi tawny, long, 

 slender: feelers tawny; first and second joints clothed with short black 

 hairs ; tip of the second joint sharply angular ; horn almost as long as the 

 third joint whence it springs, much curved downward; compound joint 

 black, hardly curved upward, very much shorter than the third joint : chest 

 pitchy ; breast with a hoary tinge, partly clothed with white hairs ; abdo- 

 men black, very slightly decreasing in breadth towards the tip, a little 

 broader and very much longer than the chest ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments livid ; under side tinged with gray ; legs black, clothed with short 

 black hairs ; shanks pitchy, ferruginous towards the base ; foot-cushions 

 pitchy ; wings gray, dark brown at the base, dark tawny along the fore 

 border as far as the brand which is blackish ; a dark brown, very broad 

 band beneath the brand, not extending to the hind border ; the two areolets 

 beneath the fore border, and between this band and the base, are very pale 

 gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore 

 border; curve of the tip cross-vein slight; scales and poisers pitchy. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 



Brazil. 



