36 INSECTA SAUNDBERSIANA. 
gray with ferruginous borders ; poisers pale brown, with yellowish white 
tips. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 
Para. 
TabBaNus PuDENs, Fem. 
Cinereo-fuscus, thorace vittis tribus fulvis ornato, pectore cano, abdomine 
fusco vittis una albida duabusque fulvis ornato, antennis rufis basi 
fulvis apice nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, tarsis piceis, 
tibiis tarsisque anticis nigris, tibiis anticis basi flavis, alis subci- 
nereis. 
Head tawny above, whitish in front and beneath where it is clothed 
with white hairs: eyes bronzed, parted above by a moderate interval : 
sucker black; lancets pale ferruginous; palpi pale yellow, clothed above 
with short black hairs: feelers pale red; first and second joints tawny, 
clothed with black hairs; third joint deep, very convew beneath, its horn 
forming a slightly obtuse angle which occupies the whole side ; compound 
joint black, slender, tapering, curved upward, more than half the length of 
the third joint: chest grayish brown, adorned with three indistinct tawny 
stripes ; sides tawny, clothed with black hairs; breast hoary, clothed with 
white hairs: abdomen obconical, brown, pitchy towards the tip, much 
longer than the chest, adorned with three stripes; the side stripes are 
tawny, composed of oblique spots, and do not extend beyond the fourth 
segment; the middle stripe is narrow, linear, whitish, and has a tawny 
tinge towards the tip of the abdomen, which it nearly reaches ; under side 
tawny, tinged with gray, adorned with pitchy bands: legs tawny, clothed 
with very short black hairs ; thighs gray, clothed with pale hairs; tips of 
four hinder thighs tawny; feet pitchy; foot-cushions pale tawny ; claws, 
fore-shanks and fore-feet black ; fore-shanks pale yellow above, tawny be- 
neath for half the length from the base: wings pale gray; wing-ribs 
tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base, angle of the tip cross-vein dis- 
tinct, obtuse, bearing alittle knob ; scales gray, with pitchy borders ; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 63 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
Rio Janeiro. 
