388 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



cent, yellow towards the base: chest with three pale stripes; hind-chest 

 and breast tawny : abdomen slender, linear, half the breadth of the chest 

 and much more than twice its length ; terminal tube testaceous, cylindri- 

 cal, slightly curved downward, widening towards the tip, ferruginous 

 towards the base and at the tip : legs tawny : wings pale gray, tawny at 

 the base and along the fore border, adorned with many colourless spots and 

 dots and beyond the middle with a short, broad, partly interrupted colour- 

 less band ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the base ; lower cross-vein oblique, 

 very slightly undulating: halteres pale yellow with luteous knobs. Length 

 of the body 7 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



East Indies. 



TrYPETA LjETA. 



Nigra ; caput Jlavum, albo nigroque variuni ; antenna: Jiavte, apice picea ; 

 thorax albo quinquevittatus ; abdomen purpureo-cyaneum, basi Jla- 

 vum ; tihice. intermedice tarsique Jlava ; alee subliinpidce, fusco fas data 

 et vittatce. 



A new group of Trypeta, allied to Odontomera. Black, head yeUow> 

 clothed beneath with white hairs, adorned with a band of white along the 

 fore part of the eyes and across the hind side of the head ; front ferruginous, 

 with a yellow disk ; /ace black, triangular: mouth tawny, partly pitchy ; 

 palpi yellow: feelers yellow ; third joint pilchy above and at the tip, more 

 than twice the length of the second ; sixth black, very slender, thinly fea- 

 thered with rather long hairs : chest ivith five white stripes, the inner pair 

 very indistinct : hind-chest with a white spot on each side : breast with two 

 oblique stripes on each side, one white, the other ferruginous : abdomen 

 linear, blue, partly purple, pale yellow at the base, narrow and a little 

 longer than the chest: legs yellow ; thighs black, with yellow tips; hind- 

 thighs yellow, stout, armed beneath with black spines, adorned with a 

 broad black band ; fore-shanks and hind-shanks pitchy : wings almost 

 colourless, brown for a short space from the base along the fore border, 

 with a broad, brown band beyond the middle and with brown tips ; veins 

 black ; third vein slightly undulating towards the tip ; middle cross-vein 

 straight, upright, parted by more than its length from the lower cross-vein 

 which is slightly oblique : halteres pale yellow, luleous at the base and 

 at the tips. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Var. 0. Fore-shanks with yellow tips ; hind-shanks ferruginous. 



Brazil. 



