380 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



longer than the second ; sixth black, stout : chest ivith a testaceous covering ; 

 scutcheon luteous : abdomen a little more than twice the length of the chest, 

 more than half its length to the tip compressed, shining and much attenuated ; 

 legs tawny ; thighs black, tawny towards the tips: wings ivhitish ; tivo rows 

 of transverse indistinct very pale broun spots along the fore border; veins 

 pitchy, tawny towards the base : halteres tawny. Length of the body 

 4 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Columbia. 



Tbvpeta cylixdrica, Mas. 



Nigra, cylindrica : caput jiavum ; antennm lutea, basi nigra ; scutellum 

 flavum ; abdomen subtus fulvum ; pedes flavi ; alee limpidce, apice 

 fuscce. 



Black, cylindrical, covered with pale down : head yellow ; crown 

 luteous ; a black spot on the face, and three black dots near the epistoma 

 which is not prominent: mouth tawny: feelers luteous, black above at the 

 base ; third joint almost conical, much longer than the second, not nearly 

 reaching the epistoma ; sixth black, bare, slender : a short tawny streak on 

 each shoulder ; scutcheon yellow : abdomen spindle-shaped, longer and nar- 

 rower than the chest, tawny beneath : legs yellow : wings narrow, colourless, 

 with brown tips ; veins black, tawny towards the base; cross-veins almost 

 straight and upright : poisers yellow. Length of the body 2j lines ; of 

 the wings 3^ lines. 



East Indies. 



Tbypeta basalis, Mas. 



Fusca, cinereo-tomentosa ; abdomen basi fulvum ; pedes testacei ; altc 

 fusca, basi maculis angulatis anticis gtittisque posterioribus albis. 



Broivn, with a cinereous covering : abdomen tawny totvards the base, 

 not longer than the chest : legs testaceous : wings dark broivn, xohite at the 

 base, and tvith angular white spots along the fore border and at the tips ; a 

 few white dots along the hind border and on the disk ; veins black, yellow at 

 the base; cross-veins straight, upright: poisers yellow. Length of the 

 body li line ; of the wings 3^ lines. 



Brazil. 



