86 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA, 
Diocrrta tenuis, Fem. 
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Nigra, thoracis lateribus pectoreque albo-fulvis, abdomine rufo aut nigro, 
palpis rufis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis limpidis fulvo sub- 
variis, 
Body black, shining: head slightly metallic, adorned in front with a 
tawny covering, which has a white lustre; epistoma armed with a few long 
white bristles: eyes iridescent; fore part flat, composed of large facets : 
sucker black, red towards the base; palpi red, beset with long black 
“ bristles: feelers black; first and second joints beset with black bristles : 
breast and sides of the chest tawny, adorned with white lustre: abdomen 
dark red, or black with a red base, slender, about thrice the length of the 
=* chest, narrow and linear near the base, somewhat spindle-shaped from 
. thence to the tip; fourth, fifth and sixth segments blackish, with a hoary 
tinge: legs tawny, slender; thighs sometimes with a pitchy tinge here and 
there; shanks and feet fringed with very short tawny hairs; shanks beset 
with tawny bristles; feet beset with black bristles, darker and sometimes 
ferruginous towards the tips; claws black: wings colourless, more or less 
tinged with tawny, which is most apparent at the base, bencath the fore 
border and along the veins ; wing-ribs tawny; veins pitchy, tawny at the 
base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow, their tips sometimes pitchy. 
Length of the body 54—6 lines ; of the wings 10—11+ lines. 
South America. 
Diocrria Horsteyi, Saunders’ MSS. 
Fem. Nigra, aurata, thorace vittis quinque aureis ornato, pectore argenteo, 
abdominis apice fascia aurea ornato, antennis nigris basi piceis, 
- pedibus nigris, femoribus tibiisque basi fulvis, tarsorum articulis 
basi ferrugineis, alis subfuscis cellularum discis obscurioribus. 
Body black, shining: head adorned with a gold covering in front, 
white and beset with a cross row of black bristles behind the eyes, clothed 
with white hairs behind and beneath; a few black hairs on each side of 
the crown and on the region of the eyelets: eyes black; fore part flat, 
composed of large facets: sucker black, pitchy at the base; palpi black, 
beset with long black bristles: feelers black; first and second joints pitchy, 
clothed with black hairs: chest adorned with five golden stripes, the mid- 
