108 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body — 7 

 lines ; of the wings 9 — 11 lines. 



East India. 



SCANDON, n. g'. 



Facies dense setosa : antenuis articnlus 2us lo vix brevior ; 3us sub- 

 fusiformis, lo et 2o fere duplo longior: alis areola 4a postica aperta. 



Face thickly beset with bristles: second joint of the feelers hardly 

 shorter than the first : third slightly spindle-shaped, nearly twice the 

 length of the first and of the second, conical and slightly oblique at the 

 tip : tip of the abdomen of the female armed with a circlet of spines : 

 fourth posterior areolet of the wing quite open to the border. 



ScANDON coMPACTUs, Plate 4, fig. 7. 



Fem. Cinereo-piceus, capite thoracis inttis duabus pectoreque aureis, 

 thorace vittis tribus fuscis ornato, abdomine cupreo-ptirpureo lateribus 

 aureo maculatis, antennis nigris, femorihus rufis, tibiisflavis apice 

 nigris, tarsis nigris basijlains, alis subcinereis ad costam subfulvis. 



Body black : head as broad as the chesl, adorned with a golden co- 

 vering, having a few black hairs about the eyelets and on each side of the 

 crown, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, thickly clothed 

 beneath with white hairs ; face prominent towards the epistoma and 

 thickly beset with pale yellow bristles : eyes black ; fore part flat, its facets 

 very much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip 

 with short pale hairs ; palpi black, clothed with long black hairs : feelers 

 black ; first joint beset with black bristles: neck armed with a cross row of 

 black bristles : chest very stout, pitchy, with a gray tinge which is inter- 

 rupted by three slender brown stripes ; it has also two golden stripes, and 

 each of these is connected by two oblique bands, with the golden covering 

 which adorns the sides and the breast ; chest thickly clothed with black 

 hairs, beset on each side and behind with some black spines and bristles : 

 a convex pale golden lobe on each side of the hind chest : abdomen cop- 

 pery-purple, tapering from the base to the tip, thinly clothed with very 

 short pale yellow hairs ; first segment armed on each side with a cluster of 

 white spines ; sixth and following segments black, transversely striated ; a 

 pale golden spot on each side of every segment : underside tinged with 

 brown, clothed with long pale yellow hairs ; legs stout, clothed with very 



