yOO TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Group G.— C. D. B. M. 279. 



Characters of Group A. The little cross-vein at half the lenj^th of 

 the discoicUil areolet. 



BOMBYLIUS MACULIFEll. 



Niger, fulvo-hirlus, capite subtus pecloreque albo-hirtis, thoracis lateribus 

 abdominisque maculis quatuor albo-hirtis, abdominis fascia fusco- 

 hirta maculisque dorsalibus argentcis, pedihusfulvis, alis basi et ad 

 costam oblique fuscis. 



Black, clothed with tawny hairs : head mostly clothed above u-ith black 

 hairs, clothed beneath with tvhite hairs ; peristoma and epistoma tawny : 

 mouth longer than the body : a stripe of whitish hairs on each side of the 

 chest : breast clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen a little shorter and 

 broader than the chest, its length not exceeding its breadth, adorned with 

 a broad band of broivn hairs and with four tufts of ivhitish hairs, one on 

 each side of the fore border, the other on each side of the hind border of the 

 band ; a stripe composed of spots of short silvery white hairs, one on the 

 bach of each segment : legs tawny with a whitish tinge, beset with black 

 bristles; feet darker towards the tips: icings colourless, dark brown from 

 three-fourths of the fore border to one-fourth of the hind border; the out- 

 line of the brown is slightly notched in the middle and just includes the 

 cross-veins of the disk ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base 

 and along the fore border ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the winsf-s 12 lines. 



Group H.— C. D. B. M. 281. 



Cliaracters of Group A. The little cross-vein somewhat before half 

 the length of the discoidal areolet. 



BOMBYLIUS SIGNIl'ER, MaS. 



Ater, nigro-hirtus, tliorace cano-hirto, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque 

 fasciculatis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis albidis. 



Black : head thickly clothed in front with black hairs : mouth more 

 than half the length of the body: chest clothed with hoary hairs : breast 



