DIPTKRA. l\:] 



part of the chest beset with a few black bristles ; scutcheon adorned with a 

 thick tuft of bright pale yellow hairs : abdomen adorned with three bands of 

 bright jmle yelloiu hairs, which occupy more than half the length from the 

 base ; a few pale yellow hairs on the tip : legs pitchy, thickly clothed with 

 black hairs ; knees red ; feet armed with black spines ; claws towards the 

 base and foot-cushions tawny ; hind-shanks clothed with bright pale yel- 

 low hairs ; four front feet dark red : wings brow'n, adorned with purple 

 reflections; wing-ribs dark ferruginous ; veins black, dark ferruginous to- 

 wards the base; i)oisers ferruginous. Length of ihe body 5^ — 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 14 — 18 lines. 



Brazil. 



Mallophora contraria, Mas. 



Atra, capite sitbtus Jlavo, thorace niffro-fusco, antennis nigris basi fulvis, 

 femoribus nigns, tihiis tarsisque anterinribus rxjis, tibiis larsiaqtie 

 posiicis piceis, alis nigro-fuscis. 



Body deep black, clothed with black, hairs: head adorned above with a 

 ferruginous covering, pale yellow behind and beneath, where it is thickly 

 clothed with yellowish-white hairs, beset behind the eyes with black bristles ; 

 face convex and thickly beset with black bristles in front : eyes slightly 

 bronzed : sucker clothed at the tip with yellow^ hairs ; palpi very thickly 

 beset with black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints tawny, beset 

 w ith black bristles : chest and breast slightly tinged with very dark brown : 

 thighs black, clothed with black hairs, i-ed towards the tips; claws black, 

 tawny towards the base ; foot-cushions tawny ; four front-shanks and feet 

 red ; four front shanks thickly clothed with bright pale yellow hairs above 

 and thinly with black hairs beneath ; four front feet clothed with pale 

 tawny hairs, armed with black and pale red spines ; hind-shanks and hind- 

 feet pitchy, clothed with short black and long white hairs, beset with black 

 bristles and spines: wings dark brown, adorned with purple reflections; 

 wing-ribs and veins dark ferruginous ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



South America. 



