150 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



AsiLus oPDLENTUs, Mas. 



Nigro-fuscns fulvo-hirtus, capite Jiavescente, pectore cinereo, abdominis 

 segmentorum marginihus posticis fulvis, antennis nigris, jiedihus 

 rufis, alis fuscis ad discum limpidis. 



Allied to A. chrysites. Body black : head adorned with a pale yellow 

 covering, clothed above with black hairs, beset behind the eyes with a row 

 of black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with long, bright, pale yellow 

 hairs; face prominent, thickly beset with black bristles ; epistoma armed 

 with some whitish bristles : eyes black ; fore part flat, composed of large 

 facets : sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with 

 black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with long black 

 bristles ; third spindle-shaped ; bristle much shorter than the third joint : 

 chest tinged tvith broivn and on each side ivith a tawny hue, clothed with 

 black hairs above, with tawny hairs and black spines on each side; 

 scutcheon armed with black spines ; breast gray, partly clothed with tawny 

 hairs : abdomen deep broivn, tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice 

 the length of the chest, thickly clothed with bright golden hairs; hind 

 borders of the segments pale tawny above, hoary on the under side which is 

 thinly clothed with black hairs : legs red, clothed with black hairs, beset 

 with black spines and bristles ; foot-cushions yellow ; claws black, red at 

 the base : wings pale brown ; a broad colourless stripe proceeds from the 

 base through the disk for three-fourths of the length, and is continued along 

 some of the veins to the hind border ; wing- ribs ferruginous ; veins black, 

 ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length 

 of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



East India. 



AsiLus LEONiDEs, Mas. 



Ferrugineus, capite subtus albido, thorace vittis quatuor fuscis ornato, ab- 

 domine fulvo hasi pieeo apice nigro, antennis basi rufis,pedibus rujis, 

 alis fulvis. 



Head adorned above with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with 

 white hairs behind, and beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; face 

 slightly convex, thinly clothed towards the feelers with black hairs, amied 



