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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. _ 
the other round: eyes brassy, parted above by a rather broad interval; all 
the facets very small: sucker black; lancets pale ferruginous; palpi yel- 
low, clothed towards the tips with very short black hairs: feelers pale 
ferruginous: first and second joints tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; 
third joint angular above, very slightly convew beneath ; compound joint 
black, rather long, very slightly curved upward: abdomen pitehy, slightly 
obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest, adorned with three 
pale tawny stripes ; the middle stripe distinct and linear, the side pair inre- 
gular and less distinct; under side tawny: legs tawny; thighs gray, 
clothed with pale tawny hairs; feet and tips of shanks pitchy; feet be- 
neath and foot-cushions ferruginous ; claws, fore-shanks from the middle 
to the tips, and fore-feet black: wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 
black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; a curve but no 
angle nor stump near the base of the tip cross-vein ; scales almost colourless, 
with tawny borders; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 
wings 10 lines. 
South America ? 
African Species. 
Tapanus Nocris, Mas. 
Niger, capite antico fusco, alis fusco-subnigris apice cinereis. 
Body dull black, clothed with short black hairs: front of the head 
tinged with brown, clothed with short black hairs: eyes very large, di- 
vided into two distinct regions ; hinder region black, occupying the whole 
upper surface, its facets very large, but gradually decreasing in size to- 
wards the hind border ; fore region coppery, much larger than that of 7. 
atratus, separated from the other by a straight line, composed of very small 
facets: sucker, palpi and feelers black: angle of the third feeler-joint very 
shallow : legs black, clothed with short black haixs; foot-cushions dark 
tawny: wings blackish, darkest beneath the fore border at three-fourths of 
the length, gray towards the tips ; a yellowish brown tinge at the base and 
along the borders of the veins; wing-ribs, veins and poisers black ; veins 
like those of T. atratus ; scales blackish, fringed with short dark tawny 
hairs. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 
Cape. 
