110 INSECTA SAUNDEKSIANA. 



Trupanea sagittifera, Fem. 



Fmtca, capite fuhescente, thorace vitlis qtiatnor obscurioribus ornnto, scu- 

 teilo metathorace pectoreque cams, abdominis segmentorum marginibus 

 posticis fuhis, ventre cinereo, antennis nigris, pedibtis piceis subtuf 

 ferrugineis, alls lirnpidis ad discum subftdvis cinereo variis upice 

 cinereis. 



Head adorned with a tawny covering, clothed with a few pale tawuy 

 hairs, beset behind the eyes with a fringe of black bristles, thickly clothed 

 beneatii with whitish hairs ; face prominent towards the epistoma and 

 armed with above twelve yellowish-white spines ; three black spines along 

 each side of the peristoma : eyes black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets 

 larger than those elsewhere: sucker and palpi black, the latter beset with 

 long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second joints beset with black 

 bristles ; third spindle-shaped ; bristle linear, slender, longer than the 

 third joint : chest pale brown, armed on each side and behind with black 

 spines, adorned with four brown stripes, of which the outer pair are inter- 

 rupted ; scutcheon, hind chest and breast hoary : abdomen dark broivn, 

 tapering from the base to the tip which is black and shining, clothed with 

 very short black hairs, full twice the length of the chest ; first segment 

 armed on each side with a stout black spine in a cluster of pale yellow- 

 hairs ; second and following segments armed on each side with one or more 

 pale yeltow spines ; three rows of black dots across the base of the second 

 segment ; under side gray, hind borders of the segments tawny : legs 

 pitchy, mostly ferruginous beneath, clothed with short hoary hairs, armed 

 with black spines ; claws black, red at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny : 

 wings pale gray towards the tips, colourless at the base and with a slight 

 tawny tinge in the middle part, the disks of whose areolets are pale gray ; 

 wing-ribs pitchy ; veins pitchy, ferruginous at the base and along the fore 

 border; poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 

 17 lines. 



East India. 



