386 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



fifth veins ; veins black, lawny at the base ; lower cross-vein upright, al- 

 most straight. Length of the body 2f lines ; of the wings 6^ lines. 



East Indies. 



Trvpeta quadrigutta. 



Fusca ; caput fiavum ; antennce ferniginece ; pedes picei, tarsis fulvis ; 

 al(B nigro-fuscce, maculis gultisque alhis fasciaque apicali limpida. 



Acinia, Desv. Dark broivn, thinly clothed with short white hairs : 

 head yelloiv with a whitish covering, beset behind with some white spines ; 

 front ferruginous; epistoma not prominent: feelers ferruginous ; third 

 joint conical, longer than the second ; sixth black, bare, very slender, 

 tawny at the base: chest with a few long black hairs: abdomen wanting : 

 leg pitchy ; trochanters, feet and tips of shanks tawny : wings blackish 

 brown, with four or five angular white spots along the fore border between 

 the base and the middle, and with a slender colourless band on the tip and 

 on the adjoining part of the fore border; three white dots near the base, 

 four on the disk, and two oblique streaks on the hind border ; veins black, 

 pale yellow in the white parts ; first and second much curved ; transverse 

 veins slightly oblique, lower one somewhat waved : halteres pale yellow. 

 Length of the body 2g ? lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



South America. 



Trvpeta pantherina. 



Cervina ; caput fulvum ; thorax et abdomen confertim guttata et macti- 

 lata ; scutellum apice et abdomen basi fulva ; pedes fulvl ; tarsis 

 posticis alhis ; alee fuscce, nigro-fusco maculatce et guttata;, gutlis 

 nonnullis margineque postico limpidis. 



Acinia, Desv. Fawn colour : head tawny, white in front and beneath : 

 mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny : feelers tawny ; third joint a little longer than 

 broad, much longer and broader than the second ; sixth long, slender, bare, 

 black, tawny at the base, springing from the base of the third joint: chest 

 and abdomen adorned with very numerous spots and dots, many of which 

 are confluent ; tip of the scutcheon and base of the abdomen tawny : legs 

 tawny; hind-feet white, with black tips: wings brown, colourless along 



