58 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
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little punctures which are variously disposed: legs tawny, clothed with 
short whitish hairs; hips and thighs gray; feet pitchy; fore-feet and tips 
of fore-shanks black: wings gray, tawny at the base and beneath the fore 
border as far as the brand, and along the borders of the veins; brand yel- 
lowish brown; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny towards the base ; 
an almost angular curve, but no stump near the base of the lip cross-vein ; 
scales dull tawny; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body 75 lines; 
of the wings 15 lines. 
Asia? 
Australian Species. 
TaBanvus apstersus, Fem. 
Nigro-cinereus, thoracis lateribus, pectore, abdominisque segmentorum mar- 
ginibus posticis ferrugineis, antennis ferrugineis apice piceis, pedibus 
ferrugineis, tibiis anticis apice tarsisque picets, tarsis anticis nigris, 
alis cinereis. 
Body black: head adored with a hoary covering, which is inter- 
rupted by a black, shining, club-shaped mark on the crown; under side 
clothed with white hairs: eyes bronzed; the facets as usual: sucker 
black ; lancets and palpi pale ferruginous ; a hoary tinge on the palpi: 
feelers dark ferruginous, seated on a ferruginous tubercle; third joint 
forming above an extremely obtuse and shallow angle whose fore side is 
slightly concave, its hind side slightly convex ; compound joint pitehy, very 
slightly curved upward, much longer than the third joint : chest tinged with 
gray; sides and breast pale ferruginous, thinly clothed with hoary hairs : 
abdomen slightly obconical, much longer than the chest, thinly clothed 
with short hoary and black hairs ; hind borders of the segments pale fer- 
ruginous: legs ferruginous ; hips and thighs tinged with gray; feet and 
tips of the fore-shanks pitchy ; claws and fore-feet black; foot-cushions 
tawny: wings gray ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous to- 
wards the base ; angle of the tip eross-vein slightly obtuse, very distinct, its 
stump as long as its shorter side; scales gray; poisers tawny with pitchy 
tips. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 
New South Wales. 
