38'2 iNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



towards the base and along the fore border ; lower cross-vein slightly ob- 

 lique, hardly curved inward, clouded with pale brown : halteres yellow. 

 Length of the body 4j lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



Cape. 



Trypeta flexuosa, Mas. 



Flava ; antennm lutecB ; sculellum piceo trimaculatum ; abdomen piceo 

 trifas datum ; aim limpidm, maculis anticis fasciaque interrupta 

 fuscis, vena pobrachiali contorla. 



Yellow : face broad, whitish ; epistoma slightly prominent : mouth 

 and palpi tawny : feelers luteous ; third joint conical, nearly twice the 

 length of the second ; sixth black, feathered with short hairs, yellow at the 

 base : scutcheon with three pitchy spots on the hind border, the side pair 

 small : hind chest whitish : abdomen a little shorter than the chest, not 

 longer than broad, with three pitchy bands, first and second bands inter- 

 rupted : legs yellow : ivings colourless, with a few small irregular pale brown 

 spots along the fore border, and with a slender interrupted band; veins black, 

 yellow at the base ; lower cross-vein clouded with pale brown, almost up- 

 right, hardly inclined inward ; pobrachial vein much contorted : alulae 

 while : halteres pale yellow. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 

 4i lines. 



Cape Coast. 



Trypeta vaeia. 



Ferrugineo-rufa ; thorax nigro bivittatus ,• abdomen nigrum ; alcE lim- 

 pidai, maculis quatuor transversis basalihus fasciisque duabns albo 

 guttatis fuscis. 



Ferruginous red : chest with two broad black stripes : abdomen black, 

 shining: wings colourless, with four small transverse dark brown spots near 

 the base, and with two very broad dark brown bands, which are united in the 

 disk, and are parted by a triangular space beneath the fore border ; the first 

 incloses two colourless dots towards the base of the wing and a small transverse 

 elliptical spot in the disk, it extends from the fore border to a little beyond the 

 -middle of the wing, and there emits two branches, the first is short and sub- 

 quadrate, the second is conical and nearly reaches the hind border ; the 

 second band occupies the tip of the wing, incloses an oblique colourless 



