96 INSECTA SAUNDESRIANA. 



hairs beneuth ; hind part armed with black spines in the middle, and with 

 a row of black bristles on each side ; a few very short black hairs on the 

 middle of the face, which is not prominent, but is armed on the epistoma 

 with numerous bright tawny spines : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its 

 facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi black, the latter beset 

 with long black bristles : feelers ferruginous ; first and second joints beset 

 with long black bristles ; second much longer than the first ; third slightly 

 spindle-shaped, much longef than the first and the second, beset above with 

 short black bristles : chest thinly clothed with short black hairs, armed 

 with some black spines and bristles on each side and behind; disk dark 

 ferruginous, tvith two slender black stripes : abdomen bright ferruginous, 

 clothed with short black hairs, rather more than twice the length of the 

 chest, tapering from the base to the tip, which is shining and beset with 

 black bristles ; a black and white spot on each side of every segment : legs 

 tawny, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs 

 reddish ; feet darker towards the tips ; first joint yellow ; claws black ; 

 foot-cushions yellow ; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, much curved : wings 

 rather short, very light gray, tinged with dark tawny at the base, on tbe 

 fore border and along the borders of the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs and 

 veins ferruginous ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



United States. 



Dasvpogon imbutus. Fern. 



Nigra, capiie pectoreque fulvescentibns, thoracis vittis quatuor pallidis, 

 abdomine nitido striata basi cano, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, 

 genubus tibiis apice tarsisque nigris, alis fuscis ad costam cinereis. 



Body black : head adorned with a dark tawny covering, beset on each 

 side of the crown and behind the eyes with black bristles ; epistoma 

 armed with a few black spines and bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, 

 composed of very large facets : mouth and feelers black ; first and second 

 joints of the feelers beset with black bristles : chest black, clothed with 

 black hairs, adorned tvith four pale tawny stripes, of which the middle pair 

 are very indistinct ; sides armed with a few black spines ; breast dark 

 brown, partly tawny : abdomen slightly tapering from the base to the tip, 

 a little narrower than the chest and nearly twice its length ; first, second 

 and third segments hoary ; the following shining, striated across ; tip armed 



