iod INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. 



Erax concolor, Fem. 



Flavo-fuscus, ahdominis segmentorum marginihus posticis fulvis^ antennis 

 nigris, pedibus rufis^femoribus niyro vitlatis, alls ful vis. 



Body yellmvish brown : head adorned with a tawny covering, whitish 

 and clothed with whitish hairs behind and beneath, beset behind the eyes 

 with yellow bristles ; face slightly convex and armed with pale yellow 

 spines towards the epistoma ; one or two black bristles on each side of the 

 peristoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a litlle larger 

 than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; 

 palpi black, beset with long black bristles: feelers black: chest thinly 

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

 abdomen clothed with short yellow hairs, narrower than the chest and 

 nearly twice its length, tapering from the base to the tip, which is black, 

 shining and compressed ; liind borders of the segments tawny : legs dark 

 red, clothed with short pale yellow hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs 

 striped with black ; claws black, red at the base ; foot-cushions dark tawny : 

 wings tawny ; wing-ribs and veins red, the latter pitchy towards the lips ; 

 poiseis tawny. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



Erax asper, Mas. 



Flavo-fuscus, capite pectoreque fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis 

 rujis, alls subfulvis. 



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

 with pale yellow hairs behind and beneath, thickly beset behind the eyes 

 with black bristles, clothed with black hairs on each side of the crown ; 

 tubercle of the eyelets beset with black bristles ; face convex along nearly 

 the whole length, very thickly clothed with pale yellow hairs, among which 

 some black bristles are mingled: eyes brassy; fore part nearly flat; its 

 facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with pale 

 yellow hairs ; palpi very thickly beset with black bristles : feelers black ; 

 first and second joints clothed with black hairs ; second not half the length 

 of the first: chest covered ivith yellowish brown, thinly clothed with black 

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

 tawny : abdomen mostly covered tcith yellowish brown, tajjering from the 

 base to the tip, where it is shining, narrower than the chest and nearly 



