IIW TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA 



fore part flat ; all the facets veiy small : thickly beset with black bristles : 

 feelers black ; first and secondjoints beset with black bristles ; third spindle- 

 shaped, longer; bristle much longer than the third joint: chest clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles, adorned icith four dark red stripes, the hair on 

 each side connected by an oblique dark red band; sides and breast pale 

 ferruginous, partly clothed with pale greenish hairs : abdomen about twice 

 the length of the chest, obconical for two thirds of the length from the 

 base, compressed, shining and tapering like a tail from thence to the tip, 

 clothed with black hairs above and with pale yellow hairs beneath ; a tri- 

 angular taivny spot on each side of the hind border of every segment excepting 

 the tail ; under side adorned with a tawny covering in like manner : legs 

 red, beset with black hairs, bristles and spines ; claws black ; foot-cushions 

 tawny : wings yellowish-brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, fer- 

 ruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length 

 of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 

 South America. 



TURPANEA MITESCENS, Fem. 



Rufa, capite aureo, thorace vittis duabus nigris ornato, abdomine nigro 

 subtus fuivo apice compresso nitente, antennis nigris articulo 2o basi 

 fulvo, pedibtis rufis, femoribus nigro vittatis, alisfnscis apice cincreis. 



Head adorned with gold colour, tawny and thickly clothed with pale 

 yellow hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with black spines ; 

 crown clothed with black hairs ; face clothed with black and pale yellow 

 hairs, convex towards the epistoma and there thickly beset with longer pale 

 yellow bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its fticets larger than those 

 elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi 

 black, clothed with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints 

 beset with short black bristles ; second a little shorter than the first, tawny 

 towards the base ; third spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the 

 second ; bristle linear, slightly curved, much longer than the third joint ; 

 chest dark red, adorned with two parallel slender black s<)-/jr;e,s', thinly clothed 

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

 breast tawny, clothed like the sides of the chest with greenish hairs : ab- 

 domen black above, pale tawny beneath, shining and compressed from two- 

 thirds of the length to the tip, clothed on each side with long pale yellow 

 hairs, a little narrower ihan the chest at the base, and more than twice its 



