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90 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
posed of large facets: sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with black 
hairs: first and second joints of the feelers pale ferruginous, beset with 
black bristles ; third joint darker: chest velvet-like brown, adorned with four 
blach stripes, the middle pair long and slender, the outer pair short and 
broad; sides silky, whitish-buff, which colour also adorns some parts of the 
yéllowish-brown breast: abdomen ferruginous, a little narrower than the 
chest and more than twice its length, darker towards the base with the ex- 
ception of the hind borders of the segments, tapering from the base to the 
tip, which is shining: legs ferruginous, armed with black spines ; claws 
black; foot-cushions tawny; tip-spines of fore-shanks stout, curved, with 
black tips: wings gray, yellowish-brown at the base and along the fore 
- border; wing-ribs ferruginous; veins black; poisers pitchy. Length of 
the body 10 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 
South America. 
DasypoGon EXAMINANS, Fem. 
Fulvus, capite flavo, pectore cervino, antennis pedibusque fulvis, alis 
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cinereis ad costam subfulvis, basi nervorumque marginibus nonnullis 
sublimpidis. 
Head a little broader than the chest, adorned with a yellow covering, 
beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles ; epistoma armed with 
about sixteen white spines: eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets unusu- 
ally large ; sucker black ; palpi black, clothed with black bristles: feelers 
tawny ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle- 
shaped, clothed with a few black hairs, darker and a little longer than the 
first and the second: chest tawny, beset along each side with black bristles : 
sides and breast fawn-colour : abdomen tawny, a little narrower than the 
chest and rather more than twice its length, tapering from the base to the 
tip, which is armed with tawny spines: legs tawny, clothed with short 
tawny hairs and with black spines ; claws and tips of the feet black, the 
former tawny at the base; foot-cushions yellow ; tip-spines of the fore- 
shanks black, curved: wings gray, with a tawny tinge beneath the fore 
border, almost colourless at the base and along the borders of some of the 
veins in the disk; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and 
along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines; of 
the wings 20 lines 
Para. 
