74 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
each side a large, obelavate, black, shining mark: eyes black; all the 
facets very small: sucker and palpi pitchy, hairy: feelers black, hairy, 
more than twice the length of the head: chest clothed with pale tawny 
hairs and on each side with black hairs; breast hoary: abdomen nearly 
linear, clothed with black hairs, much longer than the chest, adorned with 
thyee stripes of dull pale tawny triangular spots, the side stripes are indis- 
tinct; a large hoary spot on each side near the base: legs black, clothed 
with pale tawny hairs; four hinder feet towards the base and middle- 
shanks tawny ; foot-cushions dark tawny: wings colourless, gray along the 
hind border, blackish along the fore border, and also for one-fourth of the 
length and half of the breadth from the base beneath the fore border, where 
they include a very small colourless spot; a very broad dark brown band 
extends across the wing and includes a colourless spot; wing-ribs and 
veins black, the latter partly tawny; scales pale tawny; poisers black. 
Length of the body 34 lines; of the wings 7 lines. 
East India. 
AcantTHomera MaGnirica, Plate 1, fig. 1. 
Fem. Ferruginea, thorace vittis quinque fulvis ornato, abdomine rufo basi 
piceo lateribus nigris albo maculatis, antennis fulvis, pedibus flavis, 
Semoribus piceis, tibiis apice fuscis, alis fusco-cinereis fusco maculatis 
basi costa nervorumque marginibus flavis. 
Head ferruginous, adorned with hoary bloom; a short horn on the 
hypostoma: eyes coppery, parted above by a rather broad interval ; facets 
small: eyelets seated on a high tubercle: sucker tawny; palpi paler: 
feelers tawny: chest ferruginous, covered with hoary bloom, adorned with 
five brown stripes, of these the outer pair are slight and interrupted, the 
inner pair are broad, distinct, linear and converging hindward, the middle 
one is indistinct: breast davk ferruginous; its disk livid: abdomen red, 
shining, much longer than the chest, linear till near the tip which is trun- 
cated and terminates in a short black tapering tail: sides black; first 
sepment pitchy ; hind borders of the second and third adorned on each 
side with white triangular spots: legs bright yellow; hips and thighs 
pitchy; tips of the shanks pale brown; claws black, tawny at the base ; 
hind thighs broader towards the tips, armed beneath at three-fourths of 
the length with a short black spine ; hind-knees armed with ferruginous 
spines; tips of the hind-shanks dark brown: wings brownish gray, pale 
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