150 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
AstLus opuLENTUS, Mas. 
Nigro-fuscus fulvo-hirtus, capite flavescente, pectore cinereo, abdominis 
segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis nigris, pedibus 
rufis, alis fuscis ad discum limpidis. 
Allied to A. chrysites. Body black ; head adorned with a pale yellow 
covering, clothed above with black hairs, beset behind the eyes with a row 
of black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with long, bright, pale yellow 
hairs; face prominent, thickly beset with black bristles ; epistoma armed 
with some whitish bristles: eyes black; fore part flat, composed of large 
facets: sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with 
black bristles: feelers black ; first and second joints beset with long black 
bristles; third spindle-shaped; bristle much shorter than the third joint : 
chest tinged with brown and on each side with a tawny hue, clothed with 
black hairs above, with tawny hairs and black spines on each side; 
scutcheon armed with black spines ; breast gray, partly clothed with tawny 
hairs: abdomen deep brown, tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice 
the length of the chest, thickly clothed with bright golden hairs; hind 
borders of the segments pale tawny above, hoary on the under side which is 
thinly clothed with black hairs: /egs red, clothed with black hairs, beset 
with black spines and bristles; foot-cushions yellow; claws black, red at 
the base: wings pale brown ; a broad colourless stripe proceeds from the 
base through the disk for three-fourths of the lenyth, and is continued along 
some of the veins to the hind border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins black, 
ferruginous at the base and along the fore border; poisers tawny. Length 
of the body 10 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 
East India. 
AsILUs LEONIDES, Mas. 
Ferrugineus, capite subtus albido, thorace vittis quatuor fuscis ornato, ab- 
domine fulvo basi piceo apice nigro, antennis basi rufis, pedibus rufis, 
alis fuliis. 
Head adorned above with a tawny covering, whitish and clothed with 
white hairs behind, and beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; face 
slightly convex, thinly clothed towards the feelers with black hairs, armed 
