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100 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA 
Genus DISCOCEPHALA, Macquart. 
DiscocePHata AvBoartra, Plate 3, fig. 8. 
Mas et Fem. Fusca, thoracis lateribus flavo vittatis, capite subtus pectore 
ventreque canis, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, tibiis apice pedibus- 
que posticis piceis, alis nigro-fuscis apice limpidis. 
Body dark brown: head adomed with a tawny covering, hoary and 
clothed with short whitish hairs beneath: eyes black; fore part nearly flat, 
its facets very large: sucker black, tawny at the tip; palpi black, clothed 
with a few long black hairs: feelers black: chest with a pale yellow stripe 
along each side: breast adorned with a whitish covering: abdomen hoary 
beneath, shining at the tip, a little narrower than the chest and nearly 
twice its length: legs tawny, thinly clothed with pale hairs ; shanks and 
feet covered beneath with tawny down; tips of the shanks pitchy ; claws 
black; hind legs pitchy, shanks towards the tips and fect black : wing's 
. blackish-brown, colourless for near half the length from the tips ; wing-ribs 
and veins black; poisers tawny, with yellow knobs. Length of the body 
2% lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 
Brazil. 
CABASA, n. g. 
Discocephale affinis: antennis articulus 2us 10 multd brevior; 3us 
linearis, subarcuatus, 1o et 20 multo longior. 
Allied to Discocephala ; second joint of the feelers much shorter than 
the first ; third linear, slightly curved, much longer than the first and se- 
cond joints. 
CaBasa RuFITHORAX, Plate 3, fig. 5. 
Fem. Atra, thorace rufo, abdomine nigro-purpureo, antennis pedibusque 
nigris, alis nigro-fuscis. 
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Body black, shining, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles: face 
flat, beset with six black bristles on the epistoma: eyes black; fore part 
flat, composed of large facets; sucker black, clothed at the tip with very 
short tawny hairs; palpi black, clothed with black hairs: feelers black ; 
