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94 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
ferruginous and clothed with tawny hairs at the tip; palpi black, beset 
with black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints beset with a very 
few black bristles; first at the tip and second pitehy ; third nearly linear, 
about thrice the length of the first and the second: neck armed with a 
fringe of black bristles: chest clothed with black hairs and bristles : ab- 
domen a little narrower and very much longer than the chest, slightly 
tinged with gray, clothed with black hairs, beset on each side of the base 
with black bristles, linear for half the length from the base, a little broader 
and very slightly spindle-shaped from thence to the tip, which is clothed 
with hoary hairs: legs black, very thickly clothed with black hairs, armed 
with black spines; claws pale tawny towards the base; foot-cushions 
tawny; fore-shanks unarmed: wings black, adorned with a purple lustre ; 
wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers bright tawny. Length of the body 8 
lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 
United States. 
Dasypocon INsERTUS, Fem. 
Fuscus, capite fulvo pubescente, thorace vittis ribus canis duabusque fuscis 
ornato, abdomine nigro-piceo basi fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus 
fulvis, alis fuscis disco limpidis postice einereis. 
Head covered with tawny down, which has a whitish hue on the sides 
and fore part of the face ; the disk of the latter is black, shining, and en- 
circled with brown; crown black, shining, beset with black bristles ; 
epistoma armed with six white spines ; a row of black bristles behind the 
eyes: eyes bronzed; fore part flat, composed of large facets: sucker black, 
clothed at the tip with tawny hairs: palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : 
feelers black; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spin- 
dle-shaped, beset above with short black bristles: chest and breast brown ; 
neck and sides of the chest beset with black bristles; disk of the chest 
hoary, with the exception of a brown stripe, which is inlaid with a slender, 
hoary stripe; scutcheon and hind chest tawny, adorned with a silky, yellow 
lustre ; breast adorned on each side with a hoary band : abdomen pitehy- 
black, about twice the length of the chest, obconical from the base to the 
hind border of the second segment; spindle-shaped from thence to the 
tip ; first, second and third segments pale tawny; hind border of the third 
pitehy; tip armed with black spines: legs tawny, clothed with short black 
hairs, armed with black spines; claws black; tip-spines of fore-shanks 
