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TNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Mallophora ciliata, Mas. 



Niffra. Jiavo-hirla, thoracis disco abdominis apice venlreque nigro-hirlis, 

 antennis nigris basi ri(fis, pedibus piceis, tarsis posticis basi tibiisque 

 posticis nigra ciliatis, tarsis posticis albido hirtis, alis fuscis. 



Body black, thickly clotlied with short black hairs : head adorned 

 above with a tawny covering, pale yellow and thickly clothed with pale 

 yellow hairs behind and beneath ; a few black hairs on each side of the 

 crown ; face very prominent in front, where it is most thickly clothed with 

 bright pale yellow hairs : sucker clothed at the tip with tawny hairs ; palpi 

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

 with black bristles; eyes bi'onzed: chest clothed in front and on the 

 scutcheon with yellow hairs : abdomen, excepting the tip and the under 

 side, thickly clothed with yellow hairs : legs pitchy, thickly clothed with 

 black hairs, beset with black bristles ; claws black ; hind-feet towards the 

 base and hind-shanks deeply fringed with black hairs ; tips of the hind- 

 feet clothed with whitish hairs ; wings brown, adorned with purple reflec- 

 tions ; wing-ribs, veins and poisers pitchy. Length of the body 7k lines : 

 of the wings 18 lines. 



Genus TEUPANEA, Macquart. 



Trupanea iNivENTEis, Mas. 



Fusca, capite ftdvescente, thorace vittis quatuor nigris ornaio, abdomine 

 snbfulvo-cano, antennis nigris, pedibus cinereo-nigris, alis subfulvis 

 apice cinereis. 



Body brown : head adorned with a tawny covering, clothed behind 

 and beneath with pale tawny hairs, armed behind with black spines ; face 

 prominent, beset with tawny bristles ; epistoma armed with tawny spines, 

 which do not exceed twelve in number : eyes bronze-black ; fore part flat, 

 its facets not larger than those elsewhere : sucker and palpi black, the 

 latter beset with long tawny bristles : chest beset with very short black 

 bristles, armed on each side with a few black spines, adorned ivith four 

 black stripes, of which the inner pair arc slender and linear, the outer pair 

 are short, broad and interrupted : abdomen hoary, with a slight tawny tinge. 



