90 INSECTA BAUNDERSIANA. 



posed of large facets : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with black 

 hairs : first and second joints of the feelers pale ferruginous, beset with 

 black bristles; third joint darker: chest velvet-like brotvn, adorned with four 

 black stripes, the middle pair long and slender, the outer pair short and 

 broad; sides silky, whitish-buff, which colour also adorns some parts of the 

 yellowish-brown breast : abdomen f err uginoxis, a little narrower than the 

 chest and more than twice its length, darker towards the base with the ex- 

 ception of the hind borders of the segments, tapering from the base to the 

 tip, which is shining: legs ferruginous, armed with black spines; claws 

 black ; foot-cushions tawny ; tip-spines of fore-shanks stout, curved, with 

 black tips : wings gray, yellowish-brown at the base and along the fore 

 border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black ; poisers pitchy. Length of 

 the body 10 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 

 South America. 



Dasypogon examinans, Fem. 



Fulvus, capite flavo, pectore cervino, antennis pedibusque fulvis, alls 

 cinereis ad costam subfulvis, basi nervorumque marginibus nonnullis 

 sublimpidis. 



Head a little broader than the chest, adorned with a yellow covering, 

 beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles ; epistoma armed with 

 about sixteen white spines : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets unusu- 

 ally large ; sucker black ; palpi black, clothed with black bristles : feelers 

 tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle- 

 shaped, clothed with a few black hairs, darker and a little longer than the 

 first and the second : chest tawny, beset along each side with black bristles : 

 sides and breast faum-coloiir : abdomen tawny, a little narrower than the 

 chest and rather more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the 

 tip, which is armed with ta*'ny spines : legs tawny, clothed with short 

 tawny hairs and with black spines ; claws and tips of the feet black, the 

 fonner tawny at the base ; foot-cushions yellow ; tip-spines of the fore- 

 shanks black, curved : wings gray, with a tawny tinge beneath the fore 

 border, almost colourless at the base and along the borders of some of the 

 veins in the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and 

 along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of 

 the wings 20 lines 



Para. 



