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at the base, very minutely pubescent : abdomen obconical, cinereous at the 

 tip and beneath, a little broader but not longer than the chest : te(/s pitch]/ : 

 wings very slighthj tinged ivith pale brown ; veins black, tawny at the base ; 

 lower cross-vein hardly inclined inward : alula dingy white with tawny 

 borders : halteres tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 3 lines ; 

 of the wings 7 lines. 



Cape. 



Anthomvia iEniiops, Foem. 



Nigra; caput antice fulvurn, argcntco maculatum ; antenna; picete ; aim 

 sublimpidcc. 



Black, shining: head tawny in front; frontalia deep black, broad, 

 linear; a silvery white triangular spot above the base of the feelers ; facia- 

 lia wthout bristles; epistonia not prominent: eyes bare : mouth and palpi 

 black : feelers pitchy, short ; third joint nearly round, hardly longer than 

 the second ; sixth slender, minutely pubescent, more than four times the 

 length of the third : legs black ; fore-knees tawny : wings almost colour- 

 less; veins black, yellow at the base; lower cross-vein very slightly bent 

 outward, rather remote from the border: alulae whitish, small: halteres 

 tawny. Length of the body 1 j line ; of the wings 3^ lines. 



Brazil. 



Anthomvia tenuiok, Foem. 



Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; caput album ; palpi Jlavi ; antenme artintlo 

 3o basifulvo ; thorax fusco trivittatus ; abdomen basi subtusquc Jla- 

 vum, segmentis fusco trimaculatis ; pedes Jlavi, tar.sis yiigris ; alee 

 subcinerecE. 



Black, with a cinereous covering : head while ; crown and frontalia ci- 

 nereous, the latter whitish in front ; facialia without bristles ; epistoina not 

 prominent : eyes bare : mouth black ; palpi yelloiv : feelers black ; third 

 joint linear, rounded at the tip, taicny at the base, nearly reaching the epi- 

 stoma, a little more than twice the length of the second ; sixth slender, 

 pubescent, much more than twice the length of the third ; chest with three 

 brown stripes : breast hoary: aif/omca oval, a little longer than the chest, 

 yellow at the base and beneath, with three brown spots on each segment : legs 



