148 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



bristles; second much shorter than the first; third tapering from near 

 the base to the tip, shorter than the first; bristle much longer than the 

 third joint: chest adorned with three gray stripes, beset with a few black 

 hairs and bristles, the latter chiefly on the hind part ; sides, hind part and 

 breast tinged with gray: abdomen nearly spindle-shaped, full twice the 

 length of the chest, clothed with short black hairs, shining and compressed 

 at the tip ; a tuft of black hairs and bristles on each side of the first seg- 

 ment ; hind borders of the segments gray; under side pitchy: legs black, 

 beset with black hairs and spines ; shanks and feet adorned with tawny 

 down ; shanks taivny toivards the base ; claws dark tawny at the base ; foot- 

 cushions pale tawny : tvings very slightly tinged with brown ; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Brazil. 



AsiLUs Tatius, Mas. 



Niger, thoracis vittis quatuor pectoreque cinereis, antennis pedibusque 

 nigris, alis suhlimpidis costa venarwmque marginibus fuscis apice 

 subcinereis. 



Body black : had adorned in front with a dark tawny covering, whit- 

 ish and clothed with white hairs beneath, thickly beset behind the eyes 

 with black bristles ; crown brown, thickly clothed with long black hairs ; 

 face prominent, thickly clothed with long black hairs towards the feelers 

 and on each side, and with long white hairs in front, the former are the 

 most numerous : eyes bronze-black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger 

 than those elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with short pale hairs ; palpi 

 clothed with long black hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints thickly 

 beset with long black bristles, second shorter than the first ; third spindle- 

 shaped, longer than the first; bristle a little shorter than the third joint: 

 chest clothed with long black hairs and bristles, adorned ivith four gray 

 stripes : breast tinged with gray : abdomen slightly tapering from the base 

 to the tip, a little narrower than the chest and much less than twice its 

 length, clothed with hoary hairs, which are most frequent on each side ; 

 tip shining : legs black, clothed with hoary hairs, thickly beset with black 

 spines and bristles ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings nearly colourless, 

 brown along the fore border's and on the borders of the veins in the disk, 

 grayish at the tips ; wing-ribs dark tawny ; veins black, dark tawny at the 



