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twice its length, clothed with long pale yellow hairs, beset at the tip and 

 on each side of the base with black bristles : leys black, clothed with short 

 black and with longer pale yellow hairs, beset with black bristles and 

 spines ; shanks dark red, with black tips ; fore-shanks covered beneath with 

 tawny down ; foot-cushions tawny : wings with a slight tawny tinge : wing- 

 ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous towards the base ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wiusrs 17 lines. 



Erax invarius, Fcni. 



Cinereus, capite subtiis alho, thoracis disco nigro vittis duahus cinereis 

 ornato, abdomine piceo apice caudafo segmentormn maryinihiis rentre- 

 f/tie canis, antennis jiedibusque nigris, alis fusco-cinereis. 



Body black : covering of the head pale tawny above, white behind 

 and beneath, where it is thickly clothed with white hairs ; a row ol' black 

 bristles behind the eyes ; two black bristles on the tubercle of the eyelets, 

 and a few on each side of the crown ; face very convex in front, clothed 

 with short pale tawny hairs and very thickly beset with long black bristles : 

 eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : 

 mouth clothed with white hairs ; palpi thickly beset with black bristles ; 

 feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second not 

 half the length of the first ; third conical, about one third of the length of 

 the bristle, longer than the second joint : chest and breast gray ivith a 

 tawny tinge : chest clothed with black hairs and with a few black bristles ; 

 its disk black with the exception of two stripes, which are joined to the gray 

 hue on each side by two oblique bands : breast clothed with hoary hairs : 

 abdomen pitchy, tapering from the base, more than twice the length of the 

 chest, compressed and shining for full one-lhird of the length from the tip, 

 thinly clothed with hoary hairs ; sides and hind borders of the segments 

 above, and the whole of the under side hoary : legs black, clothed with black 

 and hoary hairs, armed with black spines ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings 

 brownish-gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; 

 stump on the submarginal vein very much longer than the inner side of 

 the angle, whence it springs ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 9 lines; 

 of the wings 11 lines. 



.Jamaica. 



