136 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Asitus uLtimus, Mas. 
Ferrugineus, thorace nigro quadrivittato, abdomine piceo apice JSerrugineo 
lateribus albido variis, antennis nigris basi rufis, pedibus ferrugineis , 
femoribus nigris, alis subfuscis. 
Head ferruginous, adorned with a pale tawny covering, thickly clothed 
behind and beneath with whitish hairs, beset with black bristles behind the 
eyes and on each side of the crown, and on the tubercle of the eyelets ; 
face yery convex, thickly clothed with long pale yellow hairs which also 
fringe the sides of the peristoma: eyes black; fore part flat, its facets 
much larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed with long white 
hairs towards the base, and with short tawny hairs at the tip; palpi black, 
beset with black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints red, beset 
with short black bristles ; first clothed with pale yellow hairs ; second about 
half the length of the first; third spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the 
first; bristle almost twice the length of the third joint: chest and breast 
Jerruginous: chest adorned with four black stripes, of which the side pair 
are indistinct, clothed with very short black hairs, beset on each side and 
behind with black bristles ; breast tinged with gray, partly clothed with 
hoary hairs; a tuft of black bristles on each side of the hind chest: abdo- 
men pitchy, nearly twice the length of the chest, clothed with short black 
and white hairs; hind borders of the segments paler, whitish on each side ; 
sivth and seventh segments ferruginous with whitish sides; fifth and follow- 
ing segments of the underside ferruginous, adorned with a while covering ; 
sexual parts ferruginous, shining, clothed with tawny hairs: legs ferrugi- 
nous, clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines; thighs 
clothed with white hairs; claws black; foot-cushions tawny ; four front 
thighs black, with ferruginous tips : wings pale clear brown ; wing-ribs fer- 
ruginous; veins pitchy, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; 
poisers ferruginous. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 22 
lines. 
North America. 
