344 IXSECTA SAUNDRRSIAXA. 



iient : sixth joint of the feelers tawny, darker towards the tip : eyes black ; 

 facets on the sides of the crown a little larger than those elsewhere : chest 

 slii)hth/ covered with tawny down which forms three indistinct stripes, its 

 sides thickly clothed with tawny hairs : breast tinged with gray ; scutcheon 

 dull taivnj/, paucVdwd: abdomen obconical, bright taivny, ferruginous to- 

 wards the tip, longer than the chest, adorned with a large triangular black 

 spot at the base, whence an interrupted and irregular black stripe proceeds to 

 the tip : legs clothed with tawny hairs ; knees tawny ; shanks and feet co- 

 vered beneath with tawny down ; foot-cushions dark tawny ; claws tawny 

 with black tips ; hind-thighs and hind-shanks much curved ; a very broad 

 short tooth armed with little spines beneath each hind-thigh near the tip ; 

 hind-shank terminating in a long curved hook : wings colourless ; wing- 

 ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of ihe body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 11 lines. 



Brazil. 



Merodon Musc^formis, Fern. 



Cyaneus, scutello abdominisqiie apice purpureis, antennis fulvis, pedibus 

 nigris, alis limpidis. 



Blue : head clothed iu front with tawny hairs : crown and hind part 

 clothed with black hairs; epistoma very prominent: eyes red, thinly 

 clothed with whitish hairs: mouth black: feelers tawny: chest clothed 

 with short black hairs, tinged with purple on each side ; scutcheon purple : 

 abdomen obconical, purple towards the tip, clothed with hoaiy hairs on each 

 side of the base : legs black, clothed with short black hairs ; hind-thighs 

 very thick, fringed with longer hairs, armed beneath near the tip with a 

 short blunt tooth ; hind-shanks much curved, a notch near the base cor- 

 responding to the thigh-tooth: ivings colourless; wing-ribs, veins, and poi- 

 sers black. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



