11'2 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Mallophora fasciata, Fem. 



Picea, thorace vitlis tribus ferrugineis ornato, sculello ferrugineo, abdo- 

 mine fasciis nigris fiavisque hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis 

 subttis basi ferrugineis, tibiis posticis basi supra flavo-hirtis, alis 

 fuscis albido fasciatis. 



Body pitch)/, clothed with short hk\ck hairs : head adorned with a 

 tuft of yellowish-white hairs on each side heneath ; face armed with ferru- 

 ginous down, very convex towards the epistoma, where it is beset with long, 

 black and pale yellow spines and bristles : eyes slightly bronzed ; fore part 

 flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, clothed at 

 the tip with tawny hairs : palpi dark red, sometimes black, thickly beset 

 with black bristles : feelers black : chest adorned with three dark ferrugi- 

 nous stripes ; scutcheon ferruginous : ahdonien adorned with alternate bands 

 of black and pale yellou- hairs, entirely clothed towards the tip with tawny 

 hairs : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; shanks dark fer- 

 ruginous beneath towards the base ; foot-cushions bright tawny ; hind- 

 shanks clothed with bright yellow hairs towards the base above : wings 

 brown, blackish-brown beneath the fore border towards the base: middle 

 part occupied by a very broad whitish band; wing-ribs and veins black, the 

 latter pale yellow in the white part of the wing ; poisers tawny. Length 

 of the body 10 — 12 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Para. 



Mallophora opposita, FeuL 



Atra, scutello abdominisque fasciis tribus Jlavo-hirtis, antennis nigris 

 basi rufs, pedibus 2}i<^eis, larsis anterioribus genubusque rufis, tibiis 

 posticis flavo-hirtis , alis fuscis. 



Body deep black, thickly clothed with black hairs : head adorned 

 above with a dark ferruginous covering, very thickly clothed behind and 

 beneath with bright pale yellow hairs ; face in front convex and very 

 thickly beset with black bristles, among which a few pale yellow bristles 

 are mingled ; a row of black bristles behind the eyes : eyes black ; fore 

 part flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker clothed at the tip 

 with pale tawny hairs ; palpi dark red, beset with black bristles : feelers 

 black ; first and second joints red, besot with black bristles : sides and hind 



