224 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



short band before the middle of its course ; wiug-ribs aud veins black ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus EUMERUS, 3feigen. 



ECMERUS ALBIFEONS, MaS. 



Nigro-cyaneus, scutelli margine postico fulvo, abdomine fanciis tribus ar- 

 cuatis canis ornato, antennis tarsisque fulvis, alls sublimpidis cinereo 

 variis. 



Bluish black : head adorned with a white covering aud clothed with 

 white hairs : eyes black ; facets large in the fore part : feelers pitchy with 

 a hoary bloom ; sixth joint tawny at the base : chest and breast thinly 

 clothed with tawny hairs; Ithul border of the scutcheon tau-ny : abdomen 

 obconical, narrower and a little longer than the chest, adorned ivith three 

 very angular hoary bands : legs clothed with hoary hairs ; fore-&hanks co- 

 vered with a whitish bloom; fore-feet and middle-feet taumy ; hind-feet 

 much widened tmrards the base, tuimy beneath : wings nearly colourless ; 

 disks of the areolets beneath the fore border streaked with gray ; wing-ribs 

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

 body 3j lines ; of the wings 5^ lines. 



East Indies. 



EuMERUS AEGENTEUS, Fcm. 



jEneus, scutelli margine postico fulvo, abdomine nigra maculis duabus 

 rufis argenteo micantibus ornato, antennis nigris, articulis lo et 2o 

 piceis apice ferrugineis, pedibus ferrugineis, femoribus ceneis, alis 

 cinereis ad costam subfuscis. 



Brassy : head coppery, very thickly clothed with white hairs : crown 

 clothed with brownish hairs : eyes red, clothed with short white hairs : 

 feelers black ; first and second joints pitchy with ferruginous tips : chest 

 clothed with tawny or pale brown hairs ; hind border of the scutcheon taumy : 

 breast clothed wiih hoary hairs : abdomen black, slightly obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest, adorned on each side with two very large red spots 

 which are covered with bright silvery lustre, clothed with tawny hairs on 

 each side of the base and at the tip which is brassy : legs ferruginous, 



