74 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



each side a large, obclavate, black, shining mark : eyes black ; all the 

 facets very small : sucker and palpi pitchy, hairy : feelers black, hairy, 

 more than twice the length of the head -. chest clothed with pale tawny 

 hairs and on each side with black hairs ; breast hoary: abdomen nearly 

 linear, clothed with black hairs, much longer than the chest, adorned with 

 three stripes of dull pale tawny triangular spots, the side stripes are indis- 

 tinct; a large hoary spot on each side near the base: legs black, clothed 

 with pale lawny hairs ; four hinder feet towards the base and middle- 

 shanks tawny ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings colourless, gray along the 

 hind border, blackish along the fore border, and also for one-fourth of the 

 length and half of the breadth from the base beneath the fore border, where 

 they include a very small colourless spot ; a very broad dark brown band 

 extends across the wing and includes a colourless spot ; wing-ribs and 

 veins black, the latter partly tawny; scales pale tawny; poisers black. 

 Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



East India. 



ACANTHOMEKA MAGNIFICA, Plate 1, fig. 1. 



Fern. Ferruginea, thorace rittis quinqiw ftilvis ornato,ab(hmine rufo basi 

 piceo laleribus nigris albo maculatis,antennis fidvis,pedibusjlavis, 

 femoribun piceis, tibiis apice ftiseis, alis fusco-cinereis fusco maculatis 

 basi casta nervorumque marginibus Jlavis. 



Head ferruginous, adorned with hoaiy bloom ; a short horn on the 

 hypostoma : eyes coppery, parted above by a rather broad interval ; facets 

 small : eyelets seated oh a high tubercle : sucker tawny ; palpi paler : 

 •feelers tawny: chest ferruginous, covered with hoaiy bloom, adorned with 

 five brown stripes, of these the outer pair are slight and interrupted, the 

 inner pair are broad, distinct, linear and converging hindward, the middle 

 one is indistinct : breast dark ferruginous ; its disk livid : abdomen red, 

 shining, much longer than the chest, linear till near the tip which is trun- 

 cated and terminates in a short black tapering tail : sides black ; first 

 segment pitchy ; hind borders of the second and third adorned on each 

 side with white triangular spots : legs bright yellow ; hips and thighs 

 pitchy ; tips of the shanks pale brown ; claws black, tawny at the base ; 

 hind thighs broader towards the tips, armed beneath at three-fourths of 

 the length with a short black spine ; hind-knees armed with ferruginous 

 spines ; tips of the hind-shanks dark brown : wings brownish gray, pale 



