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12. Triecphoea peopinqua. 



Nigro-viridis ; pectus riifum, piceo himacidatum ; abdomen ru- 

 fum, apice nigrum; pedes nigri ; alee anticce fused' luteo 

 bifasciatcB, rufo unimaculatce et univittatce. 



Greenish black, shining : head and chest finely punctured : 

 epistoma with distinct parallel transverse lurrows on each side 

 of the keel : mouth red, with a black tip: antennae black : scutcheon 

 with a red rim on each side, tawny at the tip ; breast red, with a 

 large pitchy spot on each side : abdomen red, with a black tip : legs 

 black: fore-wings dark brown, with two orange bands, with a red 

 spot near the base of the fore border, and with a red stripe extending 

 from the base along the hind border to the first baud, which is 

 oblique; second band upright, dividing the net-work of the wing 

 from the membranous part : hind-wings almost colourless, pale 

 brown at the tips and along the hind border; veins black. Length 

 of the body 2^ lines; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's colleclion. 



13. Triecphora scita. 



Nigra ; caput faruvi, nigra maculatum ; thorax flavo fasciatus ; 

 pectus rufo-fulvum ; abdomen flavum rufo marginatum et 

 fasciatum^ apice piceum ; pedes rufi^ tibiis anticis tarsisque 

 nigris ; ake anticte fuscte, flavo unimaculat(e, unifasciatic et 

 wiivittatce. 



Black, shining : head and chest finely punctured : head yel- 

 low, with a large transverse subquadrate black spot on the front: 

 epistoma with indistinct parallel transverse furrows on each side of 

 the keel, black towards the front: mouth yellow, black towards tlie 

 tip : antennse yellow, black towards the base : a broad yellow band 

 along the fore border of the chest: breast reddish tawny : abdomen 

 yellow, red along each side and along the hind borders of the seg- 

 ments, pitchy towards the tip : legs red ; tarsi, posterior tibiae to- 

 wards the tips, and fore tibite black : fore-wings dark brown, 

 thickly punctured, with a broad short yellow stripe extending from 

 the base along the hind border, with a yellow triangular spot, ex- 

 tending from the fore border to the disk at one-third of the length, 

 and with a broad yellow upright band which divides the reticulations 

 from the membranous part : hind-wings pale brown, almost colour- 

 less beneath the fore border towards the base ; veins black. Length 

 of the body 3^ lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



a — c. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



