DIPTKHA. 135 



ferruginous at the base ; bristle black, about twice the length of the third 

 joint: neck thickly clothed with yellow hairs: chest adorned with tmimi/ 

 rejlectionn and with three indistinct tnwnij stripes, thinly clothed with short 

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

 clothed with yellow hairs, which are very thick about the base of the fore- 

 legs : abdomen full twice the length of the chest, tapering from the base 

 to the tip, irhere it is tawnt/, clothed with tawny hairs, and towards the 

 base with black hairs ; seventh segment whitish ; sexual parts ferruginous, 

 shining: legs ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs, armed with black 

 spines : witigs colourless, yellowish brown along the borders of the veins ; 

 wing-ribs, veins and poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 18 lines; of 

 the wings 28 lines. 



East India. 



AsiLus DiscuTiENS, Feni. 



Fulvus, thorace subvittato, pectore cincreu, abdominc nigro, antennis nigris, 

 pedibus rii/is, genubus tibiis apice tarsis(jue nigris, alis subcincreis 

 apice obscurioribiis venarum marginibus fulvis. 



Body black : head adorned with a tawny covering, thickly clothed 

 behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; a few black bristles behind 

 the eyes ; a few black hairs on the tubercle of the eyelets and on each side 

 of the crown ; face convex in front, clothed with pale yellow bristles and 

 black hairs, the latter are chiefly towards the feelers : eyes bronzed; fore 

 part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at 

 the tip wiih tawny hairs ; palpi thickly beset with black bristles : feelers 

 black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; second about half 

 the length of the first : chest clothed with black hairs, beset on each side 

 and behind with black bristles ; its covering taumg, indistinctly striped : 

 breast gray : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the 

 length of the chest, thickly clothed tvith bright tawny hairs ; tip shining, 

 compressed : legs dark red, clothed with short black hairs and with a few 

 yellow bristles, armed with black spines ; feet, knees, and tips of shanks 

 black ; fool-cushions tawny ; thighs clothed with hoary hairs : wings 

 slightly tinged with gray, their tips darker; bord(rs of the veins tawny ; 

 wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, poisers tawny, wilh ferruginous tips. 

 Length of the body It lines ; of the wings 2.') lines. 



New Holland. 



