JJIFl'ERA. I'^l 



black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker 

 and palpi black ; palpi beset with long whitish bristles ; feelers black ; first 

 and second joints tawny, clothed with short whitish hairs; third conical, 

 tawny ami rounded at the base ; bristle slender, nearly thrice the length of 

 the third joint ; vhest (fray with a tawny iitu/c, thinly beset with very short 

 black bristles, armed on each side with a few black spines, adorned with 

 four brown stripes, of which the side pair are indistinct ; scutcheon and 

 hind part of the chest beset Avith long whitish hairs and spines ; breast 

 hoary, thinly clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen black, tapering from the 

 base to the tip, less than twice the length of the chest, clothed with short 

 white hairs ; sides, hind borders of the seyments and under side tawny : leys 

 pale laivny, thickly clothed with whitish hairs, armed with some black and 

 whitish spines ; thighs and hind-feet black above, the latter dark tawny be- 

 neath ; claws black ; foot-cushions tawny : wings with a very slight tawny 

 tinge ; wing-ribs and \ eins pitchy ; veins tawny at the base and along the 

 fore border ; poisers pale tawny. 



Fern. Abdomen more than twice the length of the chest, black and 

 compressed towards the tip ; poisers rather dark tawny. 



Length of the body 6^ — 7 lines ; of the wings 10 — 13i lines. 



East India. 



TUUPANEA TEMERARIA, Fcni. 



Flavo-fusca, capite fulvo, thorace niyro bivilfato, peclore cano, alnloniine 

 nigro-fusco segmenlorum maryinibus poslicis ferruyincis, anlennis 

 pedibusque niyris, tibiis anterioribus basi fultis, alls subfuscis apiee 

 einereis. 



Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, paler and clothed 

 with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with a 

 row of black spines, beset with black bristles on each side of the crown ; 

 face convex towards the epistoma, beset with a few white hairs and bristles, 

 armed with some yellow spines, these are on the epistoma and thence ex- 

 tend to each side of the peristoma, which has also a black bristle and a 

 black hair': eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those 

 elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with ])itchy hairs ; palpi clothed with 

 long, pale yellow hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints thickly beset 

 with short black bristles ; second much shorter than the first : chest yel- 

 lowish-brown, thinly clothed with very short black hairs, l)cset on each 



