DIPIKRA. :iV5 



Genus IIOPALOMERA, Macq. ^ ^, , ^ 



RopALOMEUA TiurALis, Mas et Fcem. 



liufo-fusca ; caput testaceum, nigra varium ; antenncB ferriiginffe, apice 

 nigrcc ; tlinrux alho quadrivittaius ; abdomen nigrum, baxi testaceum ; 

 ■pedes nigri, fnnoribus h'isi fnlvis, (ibiis aiilerioribiis piceis, tarsis 

 anteriorihw; basi flavis ; alis cinereis, venisfuscn marginatis. 



Reddish brown : head testaceous above, black with a hoary covering in 

 front, white on eacli side, clotheil behind and beneath with tawny hairs ; 

 crown with a sli^lit longitudinal furrow, black about the eyelets, with a fer- 

 ruginous stripe on each side; fovese not extending half the length to the 

 cpistoma which is not prominent ; face very convex between the fovese and 

 iheepistoma: mouth pitchy, partly tawny ; palpi tawny, clavate: /p^/crs 

 ferruginous ; third joint black above and toicards the tip, conical, full twice 

 the length of the second ; fourth and fifth joints very short but distinct ; 

 sixth black, slender, testaceous at the hasp, thinly feathered to the tip with 

 long hairs : chest with four white stripes : breast with a white stripe on 

 each side : abdomen black, with a ho'iry covering, testaceous at the base, not 

 longer than the chest : legs black ; hips tawny, with a white covering ; 

 thighs very thick, tawny at the base ; knees yellow ; shanks curved, pitchy ; 

 hind-shanks deep black, widened ; anterior feet yellow towards the base: 

 wings gray, clouded with broicn along the veins ; veins black, ferruginous at 

 the base : alulae white: halteres tawny. Tiength of the body 4^ — Splines; 

 of the wings 11 — 13 lines. 



ROPALOMERA VAPJPES, MaS. 



Rufa; caput flavum ; antennce lutecc ; thorax pieeo trivittatus ; abdomen 

 nigrum; pedes fulri, femorum vittis tibiisque posterioribus ferrugi- 

 neis ; alfp eineretr, margine anticn fuseo-nebuloso hasifulvo. 



Deep red : head yellow, clothed behind and beneath with yelltiw hairs ; 

 crown luleous, ferruginous about the hind border, with a slight longitudi- 

 nal furrow; face with a slight j)rotiiberance between the fovere and the 

 epistonia : mouth tawny, partly pitchy : palpi yellow, ch\\i\{c : feelers lu- 

 tcous ; sixth joint black, yellow towards the base: chest with three pitchi) 



