202 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



liind part of the chest tawny : abdomen slightly obconical, a little shorter 

 than the chest : legs pale taicny ; feet darker, their tips black : irings 

 slightly gray, tawny for some space beneath the fore border; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny in the tawny parts of the wing ; poisers tawny 

 with whitish knobs. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 12 — 

 14 lines. 



New South Wales. Swan River. 



Group N.— C. D. B. M. 288. 



Cross-veins along the hind border of the wing forming an interrupted 

 line. Head very broad. Discoidal areolet open. 



BoMBYLius BREviRosTRis? Macq., Fcm. 



Niger, fulvo-hirtus, antennis nigris basi piceis, pedibus fulvis, tibiis apice 

 piceis, tarsis nigris, alis limpidis. 



Black, stout, very thickly clothed wilh tawny hairs : head broad : 

 eyes parted above by a broad interval : sucker rather shorter than the chest : 

 first and second joints of the feelers pitchy, clothed with dark tawny hairs ; 

 first long ; second short ; third tapering to the tip, a little longer than the 

 second: abdomen nearly oval, hardly narrower and not longer than the 

 chest: legs dark tawny, beset with short bristles; shanks pitchy toivards 

 the tips ; feet black : wings colourless ; wing-ribs and veius tawny ; veins 

 darker along the hind border and towards the tips ; poisers yellow. Length 

 of the body Sh lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Fam. INFLATiE, Latr. 

 EXETASIS, n. g. 



Cyrto affinis : areola costales 3, submarginales 1, posleriores 4, infe- 

 riores 2, et discoidales 4 ; areola la inferior margine clausa. 



Distinguished from Cyrtus by the wing-veins ; there are three costal, 

 one submarginal, four posterior, two inferior, and four discoidal areolets ; 

 the stump of a vein projects from the inner side into the disk of the third 

 posterior areolet ; the first inferior areolet is closed on the border. 



