98 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
the chest and nearly twice its length ; segments from the first to the fourth 
dull, hoary on each side ; following segments shining, striated across ; tip 
armed with a circlet of black spines: legs black, armed with black spines ; 
no tip-spines: wings dark brown, adorned with a coppery-purple lustre, 
dark gray beneath the fore border; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers 
dark tawny. Length of the body 10}—12 lines; of the wings 20—23 
lines. 
East India. 
Dasyrocon PuLYERIFER, Mas. 
Cano-fulvus, albo hirtus, pectore cano, abdomine longo, antennis nigris, 
pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris, alis fulvo-limpidis abbreviatis. 
Body adorned with a dull tawny covering : head thickly beset with 
white bristles ; face prominent, thickly armed from near the feelers to the 
epistoma with white bristles; a few black bristles about the eyelets: eyes 
black; fore part flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere: mouth 
and feelers black; first and second joints of the feelers beset with white 
bristles; third joint convex beneath, narrower towards the tip: fourth 
tapering, not half the length of the third: neck thickly clothed with white 
hairs: chest thinly clothed with short black hairs, armed with black and 
tawny spines: breast hoary: abdomen tawny (which colour is hardly seen 
through the thick hoary covering), full twice the length of the chest, ta- 
pering from the base to the tip, clothed with white hairs: legs tawny, 
clothed with short pale tawny hairs, armed with black and pale tawny 
spines ; thighs black, with tawny tips ; claws black, tawny at the base: 
wings colourless, short, with a pale tawny tinge at the base and beneath 
the fore border; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; poisers pale tawny. Length 
of the body 94 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 
East India. 
Dasyrocon piturus, Fem. 
Fulvus, capite nigro, thorace ferrugineo vittis bribus nigris ornato, abdo- 
minis apice ferrugineo, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus alisque fulvis. 
Body tawny: head black, adorned in ,front with a yellow covering, 
clothed beneath with yellow hairs ; face thickly and completely beset with 
