138 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



AsiLus Conge Dus, Mas et Fem. 



Niger, thorace vittis quatuor ftdvis ornato,pectore cinereo, ahdomine fasciis 

 cinereo-fulvis ornato, antennis ferruyineis hasi nigris, pedibus nigris 

 fulvo et ferrugineo variis,alis limpidis. 



Male. Body black : liead broader than the chest, brown above, pale 

 yellow with a silky lustre in front, hoary and clothed with white hairs be- 

 hind and beneath ; face slightly prominent, armed with numerous pale yel- 

 low spines : eyes large, adorned with iridescent colours; fore part nearly 

 flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with 

 pale tawny hairs ; palpi small : feelers pale ferruginous ; first and second 

 joints black, adorned with a tawny covering, beset with short black bristles ; 

 second pale ferruginous at the tip, as long as the first ; third slightly ta- 

 pering from the base to the tip, much longer than the first ; bristle black, 

 much longer than the third joint, very slightly widened near the tip : chest 

 beset on each side and behind with a feAv black bristles, adorned with four 

 tawng stripes which are united on each side in front : breast tinged with 

 gray : abdomen narrower than the chest and more than twice its length, 

 thinly clothed with short hoary hairs, slightly tapering from the base to 

 the tip, which with its appendages is shining and clothed with short black 

 hairs ; four white spines on each side of the fifth segment ; a broad grayish 

 tawny band on each segment ; hind part of breast, and hind borders of the 

 first, second and third abdominal segments on the under side ferruginous : 

 legs black, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; thighs 

 ferruginous at the base beneath ; four anterior thighs ferrtiginojis at the tips 

 beneath ; shanks tawny, with black tips ; hind-shanks striped beneath ivith 

 black; foot-cushions pale tawny: icings quite colourless; wing-ribs and 

 veins pale tawny ; poisers pale ferruginous. 



Fem. Eyes convex in front ; facets larger than those elsewhere : ab- 

 domen much more than twice the length of the chest, compressed and 

 shining for one-third of the length from the tip : thighs tawny with black 

 tips, darker than the shanks ; feet dark ferruginous at the base, clothed 

 beneath with tawny down. 



Length of the body 7 — 8 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



East India. 



