108 INSECTA SAUNDIERSIANA. 
and along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length of the body 6—7 
lines ; of the wings 9—11 lines. 
East India. 
SCANDON, n. g. 
Facies densé setosa: antennis articulus 2us lo vix brevior; 3us sub- 
fusiformis, lo et 20 feré duplé longior: alis areola 4a postica aperta. 
Face thickly beset with bristles: second joint of the feelers hardly 
shorter than the first: third slightly spindle-shaped, nearly twice the 
length of the first and of the second, conical and slightly oblique at the 
tip: tip of the abdomen of the female armed with a circlet of spines: 
fourth posterior axeolet of the wing quite open to the border. 
Scanpon compactrus, Plate 4, fig. 7. 
Fem. Cinereo-piceus, capite thoracis vittis duabus pectoreque aureis, 
thorace vittis tribus fuscis ornato, abdomine cupreo-purpureo lateribus 
aureo maculatis, antennis nigris, femoribus rufis, tibiis flavis apice 
nigris, tarsis nigris basi flavis, alis subcinereis ad costam subfulvis. 
Body black: head as broad as the chest, adomed with a golden co- 
vering, having a few black hairs about the eyelets and on each side of the 
crown, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, thickly clothed 
beneath with white hairs; face prominent towards the epistoma and 
thickly beset with pale yellow bristles: eyes black; fore part flat, its facets 
very much larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip 
with short pale hairs ; palpi black, clothed with long black hairs: feelers 
black ; first joint beset with black bristles: neck armed with a cross row of 
black bristles: chest very stout, pitchy, with a gray tinge which is inter- 
rupted by three slender brown stripes ; it has also two golden stripes, and 
each of these is connected by two oblique bands, with the golden covering 
which adorns the sides and the breast; chest thickly clothed with black 
hairs, beset on each side and behind with some black spines and bristles : 
a convex pale golden lobe on each side of the hind chest: abdomen cop- 
‘ pery-purple, tapering from the base to the tip, thinly clothed with very 
short pale yellow hairs; first segment armed on each side with a cluster of 
white spines ; sixth and following segments black, transversely striated ; a 
pale golden spot on each side of every segment: underside tinged with 
brown, clothed with long pale yellow hairs; legs stout, clothed with very 
