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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



ferruginous and clothed with tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi black, beset 

 with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a very 

 few black bristles ; first at the tip and second pitchy ; third nearly linear, 

 about thrice the length of the first and the second : neck armed with a 

 fringe of black bristles : chest clothed with black hairs and bristles : ab- 

 domen a little narrower and very much longer than the chest, slightly 

 tinged ivith gray, clothed with black hairs, beset on each side of the base 

 with black bristles, linear for half the length from the base, a little broader 

 and very slightly spindle-shaped from thence to the tip, which is clothed 

 with hoary hairs: legs black, very thickly clothed with black hairs, armed 

 with black spines ; claws pale tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions 

 tawny; fore-shanks unarmed: wings black, adorned with a purple lustre ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body 8 

 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



United States. 



Dasypogon insebtus, Fern. 



Fuscus, capite fulvo pubescente, thoracc vittis trihus canis duahitsque fuscis 

 ornato, abclomine nigro-piceo basi fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus 

 fulvis, alis fuscis disco limpidis postice cinereis. 



Head covered with tawny down, which has a whitish hue on the sides 

 and fore part of the face ; the disk of the latter is black, shining, and en- 

 circled with brown ; crown black, shining, beset with black bristles ; 

 epistoma armed with six white spines ; a row of black bristles behind the 

 eyes: eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker black, 

 clothed at the tip wilh tawny hairs : palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : 

 feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spin- 

 dle-shaped, beset above with short black bristles : chest and breast brown ; 

 neck and sides of the chest beset with black bristles ; disk of the chest 

 hoary, loith the exception of a brown stripe, which is inlaid with a slender, 

 hoary stripe ; scutcheon and hind chest tawny, adorned with a silky, yellow 

 lustre ; breast adorned on each side with a hoary band : abdomen pitchy- 

 black, about twice the length of the chest, obconical from the base to the 

 hind border of the second segment ; spindle-shaped from thence to the 

 tip ; first, second and third segments pale tawny ; hind border of the third 

 pitchy ; tip armed with black spines : legs tawny, clothed with short black 

 hairs, armed with black spines ; claws black ; tip-spines of fore-shanks 



