98 INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. 



the chest aud nearly twice its length ; segments from the first to the fourth 

 dull, hoary on each side ; following segments shining, striated across ; tip 

 armed with a circlet of black spines : legs black, armed with black spines ; 

 no tip-spines: wings dark brown, adorned with a coppery-purple lustre, 

 dark gray beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers 

 dark tawny. Length of the body lOi — 12 lines; of the wings 20 — 23 

 lines. 



East India. 



Dasypogon pulverifer, Mas. 



Cano-fulvus, albo hirttis, pectore cano, ahdomine longo, nntennis nigris, 

 pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris, alls fulvo-limpidis abbrevialis. 



Body adorned with a dull tawny covering : head thickly beset with 

 white bristles ; face prominent, thickly armed from near the feelers to the 

 epistoma with white bristles ; a few black bristles about the eyelets : eyes 

 black; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere: mouth 

 and feelers black; first and second joints of the feelers beset with white 

 bristles ; third joint convex beneath, narrower towards the tip : fourth 

 tapering, not half the length of the third : neck thickly clothed with white 

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

 tawny spines : breast hoary : abdomen tawny (which colour is hardly seen 

 through the thick hoaiy covering), full twice the length of the chest, ta- 

 pering from the base to the tip, clothed with white hairs: legs tawny, 

 clothed with short pale tawny hairs, armed with black and pale tawny 

 spines ; thighs black, with tawny tips ; claws black, tawny at the base : 

 mngs colourless, short, with a pale tawny tinge at the base and beneath 

 the fore border; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; poisers pale tawny. Length 

 of the body 9^ lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



East India. 



Dasypogon diltttus. Fern. 



Fulvus, capite nigro, thnrace ferrugineo vittis tribus nigris ornato, abdo- 

 minis apice ferriigineo, antemiis ferriigineis, pedibus alisque fulvis. 



Body taivny : head black, adorned in .front with a yellow covering, 

 clothed beneath with yellow hairs ; face thickly and completely beset with 



