246 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
- hairs; scutcheon tawny : abdomen tawny, obconical, as long as the chest, 
black with the exception of the hind borders of the segments for one-third of 
the length from the tip, having a black stripe along the back : legs black, 
fringed with black hairs; shanks pitchy, yellow at the base ; middle-shanks 
tawny ; claws tawny at the base; foot-cushions tawny ; hind-thighs rather 
thick; hind-shanks slightly curved: wings nearly colourless, slightly tawny 
along the fore border ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; 
poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
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ERistatis Oxycanus. 
Niger, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine fasciis tribus interruptis fulvis or- 
nato, antennis pedibusque nigris, femoribus apice tibtisque basi fulvis, 
alis subcinereis. 
Black : head covered with tawny down, clothed with tawny hairs ; 
crown clothed with black hairs; a broad stripe between the feelers and the 
epistoma: eyes black: feelers black: chest tinged with brown, thickly 
clothed with short tawny hairs; scutcheon ferruginous : breast tinged with 
gray: abdomen velvety, nearly obconical, a little longer than the chest, 
clothed with tawny and black hairs, adorned with three interrupted tawny 
bands, the first band is on each side of a somewhat triangular form 
whose inner border is concave; the second and the third are paler, each 
forms two curves, and the second terminates in a ferruginous spot on each 
side ; hind borders of the segments and the whole of the underside grayish 
black, shining : legs black, clothed with short black hairs; shanks towards 
the base and tips of the thighs tawny ; foot-cushions dark tawny; claws 
tawny with black tips: wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, 
pitchy at the base and along the fore border; brands dark tawny ; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 9} lines. 
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Eristatis Everes, Mas. 
Niger, scutello abdominis maculis quatuor segmentorum marginibus pos- 
ticis ventreque fulvis, antennis piceis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus nigris, 
tibiis tarsisque apice nigris, alis limpidis basi fuscis ad costam sub- 
fulvis. 
Black: head tinged with hoary, clothed with tawny down and hairs 
excepting a black shining stripe between the feelers and the epistoma, 
