222 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 
broad coppery stripes which occupy most of the disk : abdomen tawny, yel- 
lowish on each side beyond the middle, pitchy towards the tip ; hind borders 
of the segments pitchy : feet tawny ; each hind-thigh and hind-shank adorned 
with a brown band, and the like is very slightly indicated on the middle 
legs: wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base. 
Length of the body 44 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Brazil. 
Bacona crassa, Mas. 
Nigra, capite pectoreque chalybeis, scutello thoracisque lateribus wneis, an- 
tennis pedibusque piceis, tarsis fulvo-cinctis, alis cinereis basi et ad 
costam fuscis. 
Black : head steel blue, clothed above with black hairs, covered in front 
with white down: eyesred; mouth tawny: feelers pitchy: chest very stout ; 
scutcheon and sides of the chest brassy, the latter clothed with tawny hairs < 
breast steel-blue : abdomen much compressed at the base, widening thence to 
the tip, about twice the length of the chest but not half its breadth in the 
widest part: legs pitehy; trochanters and knees tawny ; second and third 
joints of the feet tawny, which colour is palest in the hind-feet; claws 
black; foot-cushions tawny: wings dark gray, brownish at the base and be- 
neath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black; poisers tawny. Length 
of the body 4 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 
Brazil. 
Baccua TENuts, Fem. 
Cyanea, capite antico flavo, abdomine cyaneo apice purpureo fasciis qua- 
tuor fulvis ornato, antennis pedibusque fulvis, femoribus tibiisque 
posticis fusco-cinelis, alis impidis. 
Head bright blue above, pale yellow in front and beneath ; a little black 
spot above the base of the feelers; eyes red: mouth and feelers tawny : 
chest and breast metallic-blue; sides yellow; a broad coppery band between 
the wings: abdomen black, shining, about thrice the length of the chest, 
adorned with four tawny bands, linear and very slender for two-thirds of the 
length, purple and spindle-shaped from thence to the tip: legs pale tawny ; 
hind-thighs and hind-shanks adorned with pale brown bands ; hind-feet dark 
tawny, brownish towards the base ; wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny; yeins 
