Therkv.a vviJiANis, Fein. 



Nigra, pecturc abdomineque fulvu, hoc viliis fuscis antice una ■postice 

 duahus ornato, anlennis pedibmque fulvis, femoribus tibiis tarsorum- 

 que artuuUs apice nujris, alls siibalbidis fusco sex-maculatis. 



Body black : head beset behind with black bristles, adorned with a co- 

 veriwj which is iaumi/ above, but hoary in front and beneath where it is 

 clothed ivilh veri/ few short tvhile hairs: eyes bright coppery red : eyelets 

 pitchy: sucker aud feelers lawn i/ ; palpi pale yellow : scutcheon armed with 

 four black bristles : breast tawny with a hoary tinge: abdomen tawny, ta- 

 pering from the base to the tip, about twice the length of tiie chest, adorned 

 above with a broivn stripe, which occupies the ivhole of the segments along 

 more than half the length from the base, and is then divided and extends in 

 two slender stripes towards the tip, but is interrupted : legs tawny, clothed 

 with short black hairs and bristles, the latter are chiefly on the shanks ; lips 

 of the thighs, of the shanks and of the joints of the feet black; fourth and 

 tilth joints of the feet and claws black ; fool-cushions dark tawny ; wings 

 rather short, dingy white, adorned with six brown marks ivhich cloud the 

 cross-veins ; wing-ribs yellow ; veins tawny, yellow towards the base, black 

 towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



Thereva i,ArEij.AJ.is, Fem. 



Flavo-fuscn, peclore abdomineque canis, hujus disco antennisque nigris, 

 pedibus fulvis femoribus anlicis tarsisque nigris, alls subcinereis basi 

 et ad costam fulvis. 



Body black : head adorned with a yellowish brown covering, thickly 

 clothed with black hairs above and with white hairs beneath : eyes pitchy : 

 sucker and feelers black: chest tinged with yellowish brown, beset on each 

 side with black bristles : breast hoary, clothed with white hail's: abdomen 

 much longer than the chest, linear till near the tip where it is conical, 

 adorned with a hoary covering, clothed with while hairs ; disk above mostly 

 black : legs tawny ; shanks armed witli black bristles ; feet black, tawny at 

 the base; fore-thighs black with taivny lips; foot-cushions pale tawny: 

 wings slightly gray, bright tawny at the base and along the fore border; 



