198 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Mouth much longer than the chest: first joint of the feelers long, 
linear; second very short; third as long as the first, tapering from the 
base to the tip which ends in a very little spine; two submarginal arevlets ; 
three posterior areolets, or in other words four, but the first is closed before 
the border and thus forms a discoidal areolet ; three more discoidal areo- 
lets ; first inferior areolet open to the border. 
Cuortstus Birrons, Mas, Plate 5, fig. 5. 
Niger, flavo-hirtus, capite albo-piloso, tibiis fulvis, alis flavo-fuscis apice 
margineque postico subcinereis. 
Black, thickly clothed with dull pale yellow hairs: head thickly 
clothed with white hairs; a few black hairs on the crown: sucker much 
longer than the chest; lancets with tawny tips: first joint of the feelers 
long and linear; second very short; third as long as the first, tapering from 
the base to the tip which ends in a very little spine: chest thickly clothed 
with dull pale yellow hairs : abdomen slightly obconical, a little shorter than 
the chest: legs beset with tawny bristles; thighs adorned with a hoary 
covering; shanks tawny with black tips ; wings yellowish brown from the 
base to three-fourths of the fore border, pale gray from thence to the tips 
and along the hind border; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy towards 
the base; poisers tawny with yellow tips. Length of the body 24 lines; of 
the wings 7 lines. 
New South Wales. 
Genus BOMBYLIUS, Linn. 
Group A. —C. D. B. M. 2738. 
Cross-veins along the hind border of the wing forming an interrupted 
line. Diseoidal areolet closed. The little cross-vein at three-fifths of the 
length of the discoidal areolet. 
