378 IiN'SECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



Genus LONG H^ A, Fallen. 



LoNCHiEA IXUISTINCTA, FceiTl. 



Cyanea; caput atrum ; pedes nigri, tarsis fulvis ; alee limpidce. 



Deep blue: head deep black; face shining: mouth pitchy : /te/ers 

 black : legs black ; feet tatvny : wings colourless ; veins pitchy, tawny to- 

 wards the base and along the fore border : halteres tawny. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 4i lines. 



Brazil. 



LoNCH/EA Beasiliensis, Mas. 



Piceo-nigra ; antenncB, tibia; tarsiqve posteriora et alcefulva. 



Pitchy black, shining : epistoma not prominent : mouth black : feelers 

 tatvny ; third joint almost conical, not nearly reaching the epistoma, about 

 twice the length of the second ; sixth black, feathered with long hairs, 

 much more than twice the length of the third ; abdomen almost elliptical, 

 a little longer than the chest: knees, posterior shanks and posterior feet 

 tatvny; tips of posterior shanks pitchy: tvings tatvny: poisers yellow. 

 Length of the body If line ; of the wings 3i lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus TRYPETA, Meiyen. 



Trypeta antiqua, Fcera. 



Cinerea ; caput testaceum ; abdomen apice nigrum, attenuatum; pedes 

 fulvi; al(c albidce, stigmate flavo maculisque transversis subfuscis. 



Ensina, Desv. Cinereous, clothed with short pale yellow hairs : head 

 testaceous, whitish beneath, behind and along the borders of the eyes : 

 mouth ^nd feelers pale testaceotis ; third joint of the feelers oblong, longer 

 than the second, truncate and slightly retuse at the tip ; sixth joint black, 

 bare, very slender, tawny towards the base : abdomen attenuated, black and 

 shining towards the tip : legs pale tatvny : wings tvhite, with a pale yellotv 

 brand at the tip of the first longitudinal vein, and tvith some indistinct very 



