l04 INSECTA SAUXDEESIANA. 



MORTMNA, 11. g. 



Corpus dense pilosuni : facies subprodiicta, setis longis liirsiita : alis 

 areola 4a postica marginem versus clausa ; areola la inferior ad niarginem 

 clausa. 



Body thickly clothed with short hairs: face prominent, beset with 

 long bristles towards the epistoma : fourth posterior areolet of the wing 

 closed near the border; first inferior areolet closed on the border where the 

 wing is notched. 



MoRiMNA Mallophoeides, Plate 4, fig. 2. 



Mas. Alra, thorace antico scutello ahdomineque flavo hirtis, ahdomine 

 apicem versus purpurea aut viridi nitente, antennis pedihusque nigris, 

 tarsis piceis, alis nigro-purpureis . 



Body deep blaclc, thickly clothed with short black hairs : head clothed 

 with longer black hairs, adorned with a ferruginous covering, beset behind 

 and beneath with black bristles ; face beset with long black bristles towards 

 the epistoma : eyes bronzed ; fore part flat, its facets much larger than 

 those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short yellow hairs ; 

 palpi black, thickly beset with black bristles: feelers black; first and 

 second joints of equal length, beset with black bristles : chest beset on 

 each side and behind with black bristles : abdomen slightly tapering from 

 the base to the tip, shorter than the chest, fringed on each side, purple or 

 metallic-green and shining from the middle to the tip, which is clothed 

 with yellow hairs : legs black, fringed with black hairs, beset wiih black 

 bristles ; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind shanks rather long ; tip- 

 spines of the fore-shanks stout, curved : wings blackish, adorned with pur- 

 ple reflections, wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Columbia. 



