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the chest, luteous towards the lip which is black : legs testaceous : wings 

 ■white, with several imperfect and interrupted brown bands ; one near the tip 

 entire and including some white dots ; a black and yellow dot on the fore 

 border before the middle ; veins yellow, partly black ; cross-veins almost 

 straight and upright: poisers yellow. Length of the body I^ line; of 

 the wings 3 lines. 



South Australia. 



Trypeta mixta. 



Testaceo-tomentosa ; caput subtus ftavum ; antermcc flav<e ; abdomen ni- 

 grum, apice ferrugincnm ; pedes fulvi ; aUe fusccc, albo confirlim 

 guttatce, costti albafusco maculata. 



Acinia, Desv. Black with a pale testaceous covering : head pale yel- 

 low beneath : feelers yellow : abdomen mostly black ; hind borders of the 

 segments tawny ; last segment ferruginous, shining, obconical, flat, black 

 at the base and at the tip : legs tawny : wings dark brown, adorned with 

 numerous white dots of various size, these are largest and most numerous 

 along the hind border where the brown is pale ; fore border white for three- 

 fourths of the length, with pale brown transverse spots at regular intervals ; 

 veins black, tawny at the base ; lower cross-vein upright, almost straight: 

 halteres tawny. Length of the body 85 lines ; of the wings Gl lines. 



East Indies. 



Trvpeta contkaiua, Mas. 



Fulva ; thoracis discus pallide ferrugineus ; abdomen sublineare apice 

 ferrugineum fulvo vittatum ; pedes fulvi ; al<e fusca, vitta fasciis 

 duabus striga maculaque hyalinis. 



Acinia, Desv. Tawny : head very pale : ilisk of the chest pale ferru- 

 ginous, almost linear: abdomen towards the tip rerrup:iiK'us with a lawny 

 stripe: legs taivny : wings brown, with some colourless marks, these arc; a 

 short stripe along the lore border from the base ; two bands tapering from 

 the fore border to the disk, the second little more than half the length of 

 the first ; an oblique streak near the base of the hind border which is very 

 slightly gray, and a small sj)ot on the hind border between the fourth and 



