I'-IO INSECTA SAUNDEKSTANA. 



Trupanea pkrfecta, Mas. 



Fulva, thorace nigro qiiadrivittato, ahdomine stipra nigro segmentoriim 

 laterilus fulvo maculatis^ antennis pedibusqne tiigris, ali.'< fuscis ad 

 costam apice cinereis. 



Body black : bead adorned with a tawny covering, which has a golden 

 hne in front, thinly clothed above with black hairs, beset behind with black 

 bristles, thickly clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs ; face beset 

 with bright tawny bristles, and towards the crown with a very few black 

 bristles : eyes adorned with indistinct colours ; fore part flat, composed of 

 large facets : sucker black, clothed at the tip with a few short tawny hairs : 

 palpi black, beset with long black bristles : feelers black ; first and second 

 joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, much longer than 

 the first and second ; bristle rather more than twice the length of the third 

 joint, very slightly widened at the tip : chest and breast adorned ivilh a 

 tawny covering, which on the chest is interrupted by four black stripes ; sides 

 and hind-chest beset with a few black bristles : breast partly clothed with 

 tawny hairs : abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the 

 length of the chest, clothed on each side with tawny hairs, which abound 

 most towards the base, and there form tufts on the first segment ; a trian- 

 gular tawny spot on the side of each segment, under side tawny ; tip and 

 appendages black, shining: legs black, clothed with black hairs and 

 bristles ; thighs and shanks also clothed with tawny hairs ; foot-cushions 

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

 pitchy ; veins black ; poisers pale tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length 

 of the body 5h lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



South America. 



Trupanea contracta, Mas et Fem. 



Fulvo-cinerea, thorace vittis quatuor fuscis ornato, pectore cano, abdomine 

 nigro segmenl.orum marginibus posticis ventreque fulvis, antennis 

 nigris basi fulvis, jjedibus fulvis, tarsis posticis femoribusque 7iigris, 

 alis si(bf%dvis. 



Male. Head adorned with a pale tawny covering, thickly clothed with 

 whitish hairs ; epistoma .armed with whitish spines, which are not less than 

 twelve in number; a row of whitish bristles behind the eyes: eyes bronze- 



