Q44 INSEOTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
nent: sixth joint of the feelers tawny, darker towards the tip: eyes black ; 
facets on the sides of the crown a little larger than those elsewhere : chest 
slightly covered with tawny down which forms three indistinct stripes, its 
sides thickly clothed with tawny hairs: breast tinged with gray ; scutcheon 
dull tawny, punctured: abdomen obconical, bright tawny, ferruginous to- 
wards the tip, longer than the chest, adorned with a large triangular black 
spot at the base, whence an interrupted and irregular bluck stripe proceeds to 
the tip : legs clothed with tawny hairs ; hnees tawny ; shanks and feet co- 
vered beneath with tawny down; foot-cushions dark tawny ; claws tawny 
with black tips ; hind-thighs and hind-shanks much curved ; a very’ broad 
short tooth armed with little spines beneath each hind-thigh near the tip ; 
hind-shank terminating in a long curved hook: wings colourless ; wing- 
ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body 6 lines ; 
of the wings 11 lines. 
Brazil. 
Meropon Musomrormis, Fem. 
Cyaneus, scutello abdominisque apice purpureis, antennis fulvis, pedibus 
nigris, alis limpidis. 
Blue: head clothed in front with tawny hairs : erown and hind part 
clothed with black hairs; epistoma very prominent: eyes red, thinly 
clothed with whitish hairs: mouth black: feelers tawny: chest clothed 
with short black hairs, tinged with purple on each side ; scutcheon purple : 
abdomen obconical, purple towards the tip, clothed with hoary hairs on each 
side of the base: legs black, clothed with short black hairs; hind-thighs 
very thick, fringed with longer hairs, armed beneath near the tip with a 
short blunt tooth; hind-shanks much curved, a notch near the base cor- 
responding to the thigh-tooth: wings colourless ; wing-ribs, veins, and poi- 
sers black. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
