140 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



prominent towards the epistoma and beset with numerous pale yellow 

 bristles : eyes black ; fore part flat, composed of large facets : sucker 

 black, tawny and clothed with pale yellow hairs at the tip ; palpi black, 

 clothed with long pale yellow hairs : feelers pale ferruginous ; first 

 and second joints beset with black bristles ; second much shorter than 

 the first; third dark ferruginous, pale ferruginous at the base whence it 

 tapers to the tip, much longer than the first joint ; bristle black, much 

 longer than the third joint : chest fawn colour, clothed with short black 

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

 yellow hairs, adorned with four brown stripes, of which the middle pair are 

 long, slender and straight, the side pair shorter, broader and spindle- 

 shaped: breast hoary; abdomen tinged ivith a slight fawn colour, darker 

 above than the chest and more than twice its length, clothed with short pale 

 yellow hairs, very slightly tapering from the base to the tip tvhich is black, 

 shining, and thickly clothed with black hairs ; iides and hind borders of the 

 segments tawny : legs pale ferruginotis, clothed with short black hairs, 

 armed with pale yellow spines ; four hinder knees black ; hind-feet black, 

 armed with black spines, ferruginous and covered with tawny down be- 

 neath ; tips of four front feet black ; spines of the four front feet mostly 

 yellow, those of the hind feet mostly black ; claws black, ferruginous at 

 the base; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings slightly tinged tvith tawny, 

 gray, with the exception of a space, in the disk for more than half the length 

 from the tips ; wing-ril)s and veins tawny, the latter darker towards the 

 tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



New South Wales. 



AsiLus Herdoxius, Fern. 



Cyaneo-niger, thoracis vittis tribus pectore abdominis segmentorum margi- 

 nibus posticis ventreque canis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis siib- 

 cinereis apice obscurioribus. 



Body blueish black : head beset behind the eyes with a row of black 

 bristles, adorned in front with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with 

 white hairs behind and beneath ; crown brown, clothed with a few long 

 black hairs ; face very prominent towards the epistoma, beset with many 

 black and white bristles, the latter on the epistoma ; sides of the peristoma 

 beset with black bristles : eyes bronzed ; fore part nearly flat, its facets 

 larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short 

 tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first 



