64 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Tasanus vartatus, Fem. 
Cinereus, thoracis lateribus vittisque tribus canis, abdomine fulvo maculis 
trigonis canis nigro marginatis vittaque ferruyinea variatis ornato, 
antennis nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus cinereis, 
tarsis piceis, propedum femoribus tibiis apice tarsisque niyris, alis 
subcinereis. 
Body gray: head adorned with a yellowish white covering, which is 
interrupted by a pitchy convex club-shaped mark in front of the crown ; 
under side white and clothed with white hairs: eyes bronzed ; the facets 
as usual: sucker black; lancets ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, clothed 
with short black hairs: feelers black, partly ferruginous towards the base ; 
third joint slightly convex beneath, armed above with a small short stout 
slightly acute horn; compound joint curved upward, shorter than the third 
joint: chest adorned with three hoary stripes; sides and breast hoary ; 
tip of the scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen obconical, tawny, longer than 
the chest, pitchy towards the tip, adorned aboye with a stripe composed of 
hoary triangular spots with black borders and inlaid in a broad ferrugi- 
nous stripe: legs tawny ; thighs gray ; feet pitehy; claws black, tawny at 
the base; fore-thighs, fore-feet, and tips of fore-shanks black ; tips of the 
middle-shanks armed with black spines: wings pale gray; wing-ribs and 
veins tawny, the latter black towards the tips; angle of the tip cross-vein 
obtuse, slightly rounded; brands pale brown ; scales tawny; poisers tawny, 
with yellowish knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 
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TaBANUs HONESTUS, Fem. 
Niger fulvo tectus, thoracis lateribus fulvo maculatis, pectore cano, abdo- 
mine fulvo, vitta apiceque nigris, antennis fulvis apice ferrugineis, 
pedibus fulvis, tarsis anticis nigris, alis limpidis basi et ad costam 
Suliis. 
Body black : head covered with tawny bloom, tinged with hoary, and 
clothed with yellow hairs beneath; two shining, black, convex marks in 
front of the crown, the one conical, the other round: eyes red, parted 
above by a rather broad interval; all the facets very small: sucker pitchy ; 
Jancets pale ferruginous ; palpi pale yellow, thinly clothed with short black 
