88 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. 



Dasypogon spectans, Mas. 



Ferrugineus, capite ahdomineqtie fulvis, ahdominis basi et sec/menfortan 

 marginibus posticis niyr'is, cmtetmis pedibusque ferrugiiieis, alis suh- 

 fulvis apice margineque postico subcinereis. 



Head tawny, adorned in front with a golden covering, beset behind 

 the eyes with a row of red bristles ; epistoma thickly armed with pale yel- 

 low spines : eyes bronzed, flat, and composed of large facets in front : 

 sucker black; palpi tawny, clothed with ferruginous bristles: feelers ferni- 

 giuous ; first and second joints beset with black bristles : chest ferruginous ; 

 sides and breast paler : abdomen bright tawng, narrower than the chest and 

 more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the lip, which is 

 clothed with a tuft of ferruginous hairs ; first and second segments black, 

 the former having on each side an angular, tawny spot, which is clothed 

 with ferruginous hairs ; hind borders of the following segments adorned 

 with black bands, which are angular in the middle and successively de- 

 crease from the third to the seventh segment : legs ferruginous, armed 

 with black spines ; feet darker towards the tips ; claws black; foot-cushions 

 tawny ; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, curved : wings pale tawny, grayish 

 towards the tips and along the hind borders ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers 

 ferruginous. Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Dasypogon rapax, Mas. 



Ferrugineus, capite fulvo-fusco, thorace subvittato, pectore cano, abdomine 

 nigra pilis albis quadrifasciato, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tarsis 

 posticis nigris, alis Jiaro-fuscis. 



Head dark brown, beset with a few black bristles, adorned with a 

 tawny covering, clothed beneath with white hairs ; epistoma ai-med with 

 about sixteen white spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, composed of 

 large facets : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with tawny bristles : 

 feelers black ; second joint at the tip, third at the base and partly be- 

 neath dark tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles; third 

 clothed with black hairs, flat above, slightly convex beneath, longer than 

 the first and the second ; chest beset with black bristles, adorned tvitk 

 a dark ferruginous covering, which is indistinctly striped : breast hoary : ab- 

 domen deep black, tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than the chest 



