140 INSEOTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
prominent towards the epistoma and beset with numerous pale yellow 
bristles: eyes black; fore part flat, composed of large facets: sucker 
black, tawny and clothed with pale yellow hairs at the tip; palpi black, 
clothed with long pale yellow hairs: feelers pale ferruginous; first 
and second joints beset with black bristles; second much shorter than 
the first; third dark ferruginous, pale ferruginous at the base whence it 
tapers to the tip, much longer than the first joint; bristle black, much 
longer than the third joint: chest fawn colour, clothed with short black 
hairs, beset on each side and behind with a few black bristles and pale 
yellow hairs, adorned with four brown stripes, of which the middle pair are 
long, slender and straight, the side pair shorter, broader and spindle- 
shaped: breast hoary ; abdomen tinged with a slight fawn colour, darker 
above than the chest and more than twice its length, clothed with short pale 
yellow hairs, very slightly tapering from the hase to the tip which ts black, 
shining, and thickly clothed with black hairs; sides and hind borders of the 
segments tawny: legs pale ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs, 
armed with pale yellow spines ; four hinder knees black ; hind-feet black, 
armed with black spines, ferruginous and covered with tawny down be- 
neath; tips of four front feet black; spines of the four front feet mostly 
yellow, those of the hind feet mostly black; claws black, ferruginous at 
the base; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings slightly tinged with tawny, 
gray, with the exception of a space, in the disk for more than half the length 
from the tips ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter darker towards the 
tips; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 
New South Wales. 
Asitus Hrrpontus, Fem. 
Cyaneo-niger, thoracis vittis tribus pectore abdominis segmentorum margi- 
nibus posticis ventreque canis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis sub- 
cinereis apice obscurioribus. 
Body blueish black : head beset behind the eyes with a row of black 
bristles, adorned in front with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with 
white hairs behind and beneath; crown brown, clothed with a few long 
black hairs; face very prominent towards the epistoma, beset with many 
black and white bristles, the latter on the epistoma ; sides of the peristoma 
beset with black bristles: eyes bronzed; fore part nearly flat, its facets 
larger than those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short 
tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles: feelers black ; first 
