262 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



epistoraa not prominent: mouth black; palpi ferruginous : /(?e?e»s black, 

 tinged with gray, partly ferruginotis beneath, third joint with four small 

 orifices on the disk of the outer side, two obliquely above the other two; 

 fourth and fifth tawny ; sixth tawny towards the base : chest hoary, with 

 four dark broivn stripes, the inner pair slender, the outer pair broad, widen- 

 ing towards the hind chest: ttvo broad hoary bands on (he fore borders of 

 the second and third abdominal scyments : thighs hoary beneath ; shanks 

 ferruginous : wings whitish, yellow at the base, colourless along ihe hind 

 border, gray at the tips ; veins tawny, darker towards the tips : alulae 

 whitish, with yellow borders : halteres yellow. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



East Indies. 



Genus OCYPTERA, Latr. 



OCYPTERA MARGINALIS, Wicd. 



Var? Caput fuhmm, supra nigrum, antice argentatum ; thorax niger ; 

 pedes fulvi ; tarsi nigri ; alee subcinerea,basi ad costam et ad venas 

 fiiscce. 



Black : head tawtiy, hlaek above, silvery white in front : feeler's luleous : 

 abdomen wanting : legs tawny ; feet black : tcings slightly gray, brown at 

 the base, along the fore border and along the veins : alulae white. Length of 

 the body 3^ ? lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Cape. 



OCYPTEKA? DIVERSA, Fem. 



Nigra ; caput auratum, a7itice album, subttis canum ; abdomen basi tes- 

 taceum ; pedes rufi, femoribus anticis basi tarsisque nigris ; ahe svb- 

 limpidcB, ad costamfuscce. 



This species does not belong to any of the genera into which the 

 Ocypteratae have been divided. 



Black, shining : head pale gold-colour, hoary beneath ; frontalia deep 

 black, broad, almost linear ; face white ; its facialia without bristles ; epi- 

 stoma slightly prominent ; facialia of the peristoma beset with bristles : 

 mouth pitchy : eyes with small facets : feelers black ; third joint com- 



