DIPTKUA. IIU 



length : leffs red, clothed with pale yellow hairs, armed with hlack spines ; 

 (hii/hs streaked with black ; shanks and feet covered beneath with tawny 

 down ; claws black ; foot-cushions ferruginous : wings brown, tinged with 

 gray near the tips of the fore borders ; wing-ribs and veins black ; veins 

 dark red beneath the fore border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 10 

 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



South America. 



Trupanea suBSTHTiA, Mas. 



Rufa, thoracis vittis quatuor nic/ris, capitc fiilvo, jjectore fen-uyuico, ab- 

 duniine nigro maculis luteralibus ventreque fulvis,antennis nvjris hasi 

 fulvis, pedibns rujis, fetnnribus nigro i-ittatis, alls fuscis costa apice- 

 qiie cinercis. 



Head adorned with a tawny covering, which has a golden hue in 

 front, clothed above with a few black hairs, beset behind the eyes with 

 black bristles, thickly clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow 

 hairs ; foce thickly beset with pale yellow bristles : eyes brassy-black ; fore 

 pait flat, its facets much larger than those elsewhere : sucker black ; its 

 tip clothed with pale tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with long black 

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

 black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, much longer than the first or the se- 

 cond ; bristle about twice the length of the third joint, slightly widened at 

 the tip : chest dark red, adorned with four indistinct black stripes, beset 

 with a few black bristles, clothed on each side and behind with pale yellow 

 hairs ; hairs about the wings tinged with green, especially towards the 

 base : breast ferruginous, partly clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen 

 black, tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the length of the 

 chest, clothed on each side and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; segments 

 adorned on each side with tatvny triangular spots, which successively in- 

 crease in size towards the tip ; under side tatvny ; tip and its appendages 

 red, shining : legs red, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs striped 

 with black, clothed with pale yellow hairs ; shanks and feet covered with 

 tawny down ; feet darker towards the tips ; claws black ; loot-cushions 

 tawny: wings brown, dark gray on the fore border at the tip ; wing-ribs 

 ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base; poisers pale tawny, with 

 pale yellow knobs. 



South America. 



