88 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Dasypocon sprerans, Mas. 
Ferrugineus, capite abdomineque fulvis, abdominis basi et segmentorum 
marginibus posticis nigris, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, alis sub- 
fulvis apice margineque postico subcinerets. 
Head tawny, adorned in front with a golden covering, beset behind 
the eyes with a row of red bristles ; epistoma thickly armed with pale yel- 
low spines: eyes bronzed, flat, and composed of large facets in front: 
sucker black; palpi tawny, clothed with ferruginous bristles: feelers ferru- 
ginous ; first and second joints beset with black bristles: chest ferruginous ; 
sides and breast paler: abdomen bright tawny, narrower than the chest and 
more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the tip, which is 
clothed with a tuft of ferruginous hairs ; first and second segments black, 
the former having on each side an angular, tawny spot, which is clothed 
with ferruginous hairs; hind borders of the following segments adorned 
with black bands, which are angular in the middle and successively de- 
crease from the third to the seventh segment: legs ferruginous, armed 
with black spines ; feet darker towards the tips; claws black; foot-cushions 
tawny; tip-spines of fore-shanks black, curved: wings pale tawny, grayish 
towards the tips and along the hind borders ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers 
ferruginous. Length of the body 17 lines; of the wings 22 lines. 
Dasypocon RrApAx, Mas. 
Ferrugineus, capite fulvo-fusco, thorace subvittato, pectore cano, abdomine 
nigro pilis albis quadrifasciato, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tarsis 
posticis nigris, alis flavo-fuscis. 
Head dark brown, beset with a few black bristles, adorned with a 
tawny covering, clothed beneath with white hairs; epistoma armed with 
about sixteen white spines: eyes bronzed; fore part flat, composed of 
large facets: sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with tawny bristles : 
feelers black; second joint at the tip, third at the base and partly be- 
neath dark tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third 
clothed with black hairs, flat above, slightly convex beneath, longer than 
the first and the second; chest beset with black bristles, adorned with 
a dark ferruginous covering, which is indistinctly striped: breast hoary : ab- 
domen deep black, tapering from the base to the tip, narrower than the chest 
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