148 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
bristles; second much shorter than the first; third tapering from near 
the base to the tip, shorter than the first; bristle much longer than the 
third joint: chest adorned with three gray stripes, beset with a few black 
hairs and bristles, the latter chiefly on the hind part; sides, hind part and 
breast tinged with gray: abdomen nearly spindle-shaped, full twice the 
length of the chest, clothed with short black hairs, shining and compressed 
at the tip ; a tuft of black hairs and bristles on each side of the first seg- 
ment; hind borders of the segments gray; under side pitchy: legs black, 
beset with black hairs and spines; shanks and feet adorned with tawny 
down; shanks tawny towards the base ; claws dark tawny at the base ; foot- 
cushions pale tawny: wings very slightly tinged with brown ; wing-ribs 
tawny; veins black, tawoy at the base; poisers tawny. Length of the 
body 6 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 
Brazil. 
Asitus Tatius, Mas, 
Niger, thoracis vittis quatuor pectoreque cinereis, antennis pedibusque 
nigris, alis sublimpidis costa venarumque marginibus fuscis apice 
subcinereis. 
Body black ; had adorned in front with a dark tawny covering, whit- 
ish and clothed with white hairs beneath, thickly beset behind the eyes 
with black bristles ; crown brown, thickly clothed with long black hairs ; 
face prominent, thickly clothed with long black hairs towards the feelers 
and on each side, and with long white hairs in front, the former are the 
most numerous: eyes bronze-black; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger 
than those elsewhere: sucker clothed at the tip with short pale hairs ; palpi 
clothed with long black hairs: feelers black; first and second joints thickly 
beset with long black bristles, second shorter than the first ; third spindle- 
shaped, longer than the first ; bristle a little shorter than the third joint: 
chest clothed with long black hairs and bristles, adorned with four gray 
stripes : breast tinged with gray: abdomen slightly tapering from the base 
to the tip, a little narrower than the chest and much less than twice its 
length, clothed with hoary hairs, which are most frequent on each side ; 
tip shining: legs black, clothed with hoary hairs, thickly beset with black 
spines and bristles; foot-cushions dark tawny: wings nearly colourless, 
brown along the fore borders and on the borders of the veins in the disk, 
grayish at the tips ; wing-ribs dark tawny ; veins black, dark tawny at the 
