376 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



stripes: abdo7nen black, linear, narrower but not longer than the chest: 

 legs tawny ; hips ferruginous ; thighs thick, with ferruginous stripes; hind- 

 thighs with yellow reflections ; shanks curved ; posterior shanks ferrugi- 

 nous ; hind-shanks rather broad ; feet yellow with pitchy tips : wings dark 

 gray, partly clouded with brown along the fore border ; fore border tawny 

 towards the base ; veins black, tawny at the base : halteres luteous. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Columbia. 



Genus SEPSIS, Fallen. 



In the European species of Sepsis and of Nemopoda, the antennse do 

 not extend to the epistoma, but they reach it in the following species and 

 also in the genera Michogaster and Omalocephala. 



Sepsis teeminalis. 



Testacea ; antenna apice picece ; abdomen nigrum, apice attenuatum ; fe- 

 mora spinosa ; tibiie posticce fuscee ; alec limpidce, apicibus fuscis, 

 venis transversis fusco marginatis. 



Testaceous, slender : head almost as broad as the chest : two eyelets 

 close together on the csown, surrounded with black ; third much iu 

 advance, also sun'ounded with black : third joint of the feelers pitchy 

 above totvards the tip which is rounded, more than twice the length 

 of the second, extending to the epistoma ; sixth joint black, very 

 slender, thinly feathered with short hairs, testaceous at the base : hind- 

 chest pitchy : abdomen black, petiolated, tapering and attenuated towards the 

 tip : legs testaceous ; thighs armed beneath with spines ; feet towards the 

 tips and hind-shanks broivn : wings colourless with brown tips ; veins lawny ; 

 middle cross-vein and those toivards the base clouded with brown : halteres 

 pale yellow. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Brazil. 



Sepsis distincta, Mas. 



JEnea ; caput, antenna, tarsi, femora postica basi et tibi(e anticce fulva ; 

 al(B limpidce, basi costaque nigrce, apice suhnebulosce. 



Brassy : head tawny ; crown metallic green : mouth tawny : feelers 

 tawny; third joint almost elliptical, extending to the epistoma; sixth 



