290 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
TAOHINA ADDITA. 
Nigra, cinerascens ; caput argenteum ; abdominis segmenta cano fasciata ; 
ale subcineree, ad costam obscuriores. 
Fam. Agride; Gen. Pales? Fem. Black: head with a silvery 
white covering, clothed beneath and behind with white hairs; facialia deep 
dark red, widening at each end; facialia beset with bristles along the 
whole length ; epistoma yellow, not prominent: eyes hairy: proboscis and 
palpi ferruginous : feelers black; third joint linear, truncated at the tip, 
nearly reaching the epistoma, about four times the length of the second ; 
fifth rather long; sixth minutely pubescent, stout till near the tip, not 
longer than the third: chest and abdomen with a slight cinereous covering : 
abdomen. elliptical, not longer than the chest, with a hoary band on the 
fore border of each segment: wings slightly gray, darker along the fore 
border ; veins black, tawny at the base; middle cross-vein clouded with 
black ; prebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its flexure, near 
which it is bent inward, almost straight from thence to the tip, which is 
very near the tip of the cubital vein ; lower cross-vein indistinctly clouded, 
hardly bent inward: alule white: halteres tawny. Length of the body 
2} lines; of the wings 44 lines. 
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TacCHINA ATRIVENTRIs, Mas. 
Nigra ; caput argenteum ; thorax canus, nigro quadrivittatus ; abdomen 
atrum ; antenne picee ; ale sublimpide, basi cinerea. 
Fam. Microcerate ; Gen. Nemorwa. Resembles Hystricia. Black: 
head with a silvery white covering ; frontalia deep black, widening from 
the eyelets to the feelers; antennaria red ; facialia of the face with bristles 
along one-fourth of the length from the base; epistoma not prominent : 
mouth pitchy; palpi tawny: feelers pitchy, tinged with gray; first and 
second joints with ferruginous tips; third joint slightly deepening from the 
base to the tip which is rounded, almost reaching the epistoma, about 
twice the length of the second joint; two little orifices on the middle of 
each outer side: chest with a hoary covering which is interrupted by four 
slender black stripes ; abdomen deep black, thickly armed with spines : 
