144 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
with black hairs and with two stout black bristles; hind part with a row 
of black bristles ; face very convex, armed towards the feelers with black 
bristles and towards the mouth with pale yellow bristles: eyes bronzed ; 
fore part nearly flat, with large facets: sucker clothed with pale hairs ; 
palpi thickly beset with long black hairs: feelers black; first and second 
joints beset with black bristles ; second hardly half the length of the first ; 
third spindle-shaped, hardly longer than the first; bristle a little shorter 
than the third joint, linear for half the length from the base, a little 
broader and slightly spindle-shaped from thence to the tip: chest adorned 
with three hoary stripes, which are beset with rows of black bristles; ¢ach 
side, hind part and breast with a hoary covering : abdomen thinly clothed 
with hoary hairs, narrower than the chest and less than twice its length, 
tapering from the base to the tip, which is shining and compressed ; under 
side and hind borders of the segments hoary, the latter with a tawny tinge : 
legs black, beset with black bristles; thighs clothed towards the base with a 
few hoary hairs; shanks and feet adorned with a fringe of very short tawny 
hairs ; claws dark ferruginous towards the base, much curved towards the 
tips; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings pale gray, dark gray towards the 
lips ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 5 
lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 
South America. 
AsiLus Luctirrcus, Fem. 
Nigro-cinereus, abdominis segmentorum marginibus posticis canis, anten- 
nis pedibusque nigris, tibiis fulvis, alis subcinereis. 
Body black : head thickly clothed behind and beneath with long hoary 
hairs, beset behind the eyes with a row of black bristles ; crown clothed 
with black hairs; face very convex towards the epistoma, thickly beset 
with black bristles towards the feelers and with white bristles towards the 
mouth: eyes coppery; fore part nearly flat, its facets a little larger than 
those elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs; palpi clothed 
with long black hairs: feelers black; first and second joints of equal 
length, thickly beset with black bristles; third spindle-shaped, a little 
longer than the second joint; bristle rather stout, a little longer than the 
third joint: chest and breast slightly tinged with gray: chest clothed with 
black hairs and bristles which are most thick behind: breast partly clothed 
with hoary hairs : abdomen thinly clothed with hoary hairs, much narrower 
