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52 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Tasanus umBrosus, Fem. 
Cinereus, thorace vittis tribus ferrugineis ornato, abdomine rufo-fusco 
vittis tribus fulvis, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, femoribus sub- 
cinereis, larsis piceis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis cinereis. 
Head adomed with a whitish covering, clothed beneath with white 
hairs: a club-shaped, dark tawny, shining mark on the crown: eyes 
bronzed, parted above by a moderate interval: sucker pitchy: palpi pale 
yellow, clothed with very short black hairs: first and second joints of the 
feelers tawny: chest and breast gray; sides ferruginous ; chest adorned 
with three indistinct ferruginous stripes: abdomen reddish brown, slightly 
obconical, longer than the chest, adorned with three pale tawny stripes ; 
middle stripe narrow, linear; side pair broader and composed of spots ; 
under side tawny: legs tawny, clothed with very short black hairs ; thighs 
tinged with gray, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; claws, fore-feet and tips 
of fore-shanks black; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings gray ; 
wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; 
curve of the tip eross-vein not angular ; scales dark tawny; poisers pitchy, 
with yellow knobs. Length of the body 8} lines; of the wings 18 lines. 
East India, 
Tananus utktus, Mas. 
Nigro-cinereus, abdominis basi utrinque et segmentorum marginibus posti- 
cis fulvis, palpis fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis posterioribus 
Serrugineis, alis cinereis basi costa nervisque transversis fuscis. 
Body grayish black: head clothed in front and beneath with dull pale 
tawny hairs: eyes dark bronze, very thickly clothed with short tawny 
hairs, having only one region, which is composed of very small facets : 
sucker black: palpi dark tawny, very thickly clothed with black and pale 
tawny hairs: feelers black; first and second joints thickly clothed with 
black hairs; third joint very shallow, rather convex beneath, slightly rising, 
and forming a very obtuse angle above: chest clothed with dull, dark 
tawny hairs; breast tinged with gray, clothed with paler hairs: abdomen 
obconical, longer and a little broader than the chest, clothed on each side 
with black and tawny hairs ; a large dark tawny spot on each side of the 
first and second segments ; hind borders of the segments pale tawny ; legs 
