232 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
brown; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 11 
lines. 
Fast Indies. 
Syrpnus Oprmtius, Mas. 
Chalybeus, capite flavo, thoracis lateribus scutellogue fulvis, abdomine 
piceo fasciis flavis tribus latissimis interruptis duabusque angustis 
integris ornato, seymentorum marginibus posticis apiceque cyaneis, an- 
tennis pedibusque fulvis piceo variis, alis limpidis, 
Head yellow, clothed with black hairs, paler and clothed with pale yel- 
low hairs beneath: eyes red, clothed with short pale hairs : feelers tawny, 
pitchy above ; sixth joint tawny: chest and breast steel blue : chest thickly 
clothed with tawny hairs; sides and scutcheon tawny: breast tinged with 
hoary, clothed with hoary hairs: abdomen pitchy, obconical, much longer 
but not broader than the chest, adorned with three very broad interrupted 
and two very slender entire yellow bunds, the second and the third arched, 
the fourth and the fifth at the tip; hind borders of the segments and tip 
blue : legs tawny ; feet pitchy, tawny at the base; thighs towards the base, 
hind-thighs and hind-shanks more or less pitchy: wings colourless ; wing- 
ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; brands brown; poisers tawny. 
Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 
East Indies. 
Syrraus Catpus, Mas. 
Al neus, capite pectoreque cyaneis, abdomine nigro fasciis fulvis tribus in- 
terruptis duabusque incisis ornato, segmentorum marginibus posticis 
aneis, antennis pedibusque piceis, alis cinereis costa fuscis disco sub- 
Suseis. 
Allied to S. balteatus and S. alternans. Head metallic blue, thinly 
clothed above with black hairs, white and clothed with white hairs be- 
neath; a hoary stripe on each side of the face; covering of the crown 
tawny: eyes bronzed: feelers pitchy: chest brassy, clothed with tawny 
hairs ; a tawny covering on each side: breast metallic blue, thinly clothed 
with hoary hairs: abdomen black, linear, a little narrower and very much 
longer than the chest, clothed on each side with very short black hairs, and 
