144 INSECTA SAITNDERSIANA. 



with black hairs and with two stout black bristles ; hind part with a row 

 of black bristles ; face very convex, armed towards the feelers with black 

 bristles and towards the mouth with pale yellow bristles : eyes bronzed ; 

 fore part nearly flat, with large facets : sucker clothed with pale hairs ; 

 palpi thickly beset with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second 

 joints beset with black bristles ; second hardly half the length of the first ; 

 third spindle-shaped, hardly longer than the first ; bristle a little shorter 

 than the third joint, linear for half the length from the base, a little 

 broader and slightly spindle-shaped from thence to the tip : chest adorned 

 -with three hoary stripes, which are beset with rows of black bristles ; each 

 side, hind jmrt and breast with a hoary covering : abdomen thinly clothed 

 with hoary hairs, narrower than the chest and less than twice its length, 

 tapering from the base to the tip, tvhich is shining and compressed ; under 

 side and hind borders of the segments hoary, the latter with a tawny tinge : 

 legs black, beset with black bristles ; thighs clothed towards the base with a 

 few hoary hairs ; shanks and feet adorned with a fringe of very short tawny 

 hairs ; claws dark ferruginous towards the base, much curved towards the 

 tips ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wittgs pale gray, dark gray toivards the 

 tips ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



South America. 



AsiLus LUCTiFicus, Fcm. 



Nigro-cinereus, abdominis segmentorum marginibus posticis canis, anten- 

 nis pedibusque nigris, tibiis fulvis, alis subcinereis. 



Body black : head thickly clothed behind and beneath with longhoaiy 

 hairs, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; crown clothed 

 with black hairs ; face very convex towards the epistoma, thickly beset 

 with black bristles towards the feelers and with white bristles towards the 

 mouth : eyes coppery ; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than 

 those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi clothed 

 with long black hairs: feelers black; first and second joints of equal 

 length, thickly beset with black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, a little 

 longer than the second joint; bristle rather stout, a little longer than the 

 third joint: chest and breast slightly tinged ivith gray : chest clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles which are most thick behind : breast partly clothed 

 with hoary hairs : abdomen thinly clothed ivith hoary hairs, much narrower 



