118 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA 
fore part flat; all the facets very small: thickly beset with black bristles : 
feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle- 
shaped, longer; bristle much longer than the third joint: chest clothed 
with black hairs and bristles, adorned with four dark red stripes, the hair on 
each side connected by an oblique dark red band; sides and breast pale 
ferruginous, partly clothed with pale greenish hairs : abdomen about twice 
the length of the chest, obconical for two thirds of the length from the 
base, compressed, shining and tapering like a tail from thence to the tip, 
clothed with black hairs above and with pale yellow hairs beneath ; a ti- 
angular tawny spot on each side of the hind border of every segment excepting 
the tail ; under side adorned with a tawny covering in like manner: legs 
red, beset with black hairs, bristles and spines ; claws black; foot-cushions 
tawny: wings yellowish-brown ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, fer- 
ruginous at the base and along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length 
of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 
South America. 
TuRPANEA MITESCENS, Fem. 
Rufa, capite aureo, thorace vittis duabus nigris ornato, abdomine nigro 
subtus fulvo apice compresso nitente, antennis nigris articulo 20 basi 
fulvo, pedibus rufis, femoribus nigro vittatis, alis fuscis apice cinereis. 
Head adorned with gold colour, tawny and thickly clothed with pule 
yellow hairs behind and beneath, armed behind the eyes with black spines ; 
crown clothed with black hairs; face clothed with black and pale yellow 
hairs, convex towards the epistoma and there thickly beset with longer pale 
yellow bristles: eyes bronzed; fore part flat, its facets larger than those 
elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs ; palpi 
black, clothed with long black hairs: feelers black; first and second joints 
beset with short black bristles; second a little shorter than the first, tawny 
towards the base; third spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the first and the 
second; bristle linear, slightly curved, much longer than the third joint : 
chest dark red, adorned with two parallel slender black stripes, thinly clothed 
with black hairs, beset on each side and behind with some black bristles : 
breast tawny, clothed like the sides of the chest with greenish hairs: ab- 
domen black above, pale tawny beneath, shining and compressed from two- 
thirds of the length to the tip, clothed on each side with long pale yellow 
hairs, a little narrower than the chest at the base, and more than twice its 
