152 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



than the first ; bristle shorter than the third joint : chest thinly clothed 

 wilh black hairs and bristles, adorned tvith three hoary stripes ; sides, hind 

 part and breast hoary : abdomen clothed with short black liairsy adorned 

 with white hairs on each side, full twice the length of the chest, slightly 

 tapering from the base to the tip, which is compressed and shining ; hind 

 borders of the segments ivhitish ; sides and tinder side hoary : legs black, 

 clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines and bristles ; under 

 side of the shanks towards the tips and of the feet dark tawny ; foot-cushions 

 pale tawny : winys light gray, broivn along the fore borders toivards the 

 tips ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black ; poisers bright yellow. The left wing 

 of the specimen described has two cross-veins at the base of the second 

 submarginal areolet. Length of the body 65 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus OMMATIUS, Illiger. 

 Ommatius jaculator, Mas. 



Canus, capite albo, abdomine cinereo, segmentorum marginibus posticis 

 ferrugineis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis sublimpidis apice 

 cinereis. 



Body black : head adorned with a white covering, clothed behind 

 and beneath with white hairs, beset behind the eyes with a few black 

 bristles; two black hairs on the tubercle of the eyelets; face quite flat, 

 beset with six long slender black bristles, fringed in front with white hairs 

 and with two white spines: eyes brassy; fore part nearly flat, its facets a 

 little larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip with tawny 

 hairs : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with short black bristles : 

 chest and breast with a hoary covering ; hind part of the chest beset with a 

 few black bristles : abdomen gray, a little narrower than the chest and more 

 than twice its length, very slightly tapering from the base to the tip, tvhich 

 is black and shining and clothed with black hairs : hind borders of the seg- 

 ments ferruginous : legs taivny, clothed with very short black hairs, armed 

 with black spines ; thighs thinly clothed with short hoary hairs ; knees and 

 claws black : wings nearly colourless, with gray tips ; wing-ribs tawny ; 

 veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4^ 

 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Africa. 



