LEPTIS FASCIATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Velvet-black ; thorax with golden-yellow hair ; 

 tergum fasciate with white ; wings hyaline with 

 a large brown stigma. 



SYNONYM. 



Leptis FASCIATA. NoMs. Joum. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences^ vol. iii. p. 37. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The fundamental colour of the thwrax is the 

 same with that of the other parts of the body; 

 hypostoma in a particular light cinereous ; pleura 

 and pectus dark lurid; poisers fuscous, scapus 

 whitish; wing nervures brown, stigma rather 

 large, brown and distinct; tergum on the poste- 

 rior margin of each segment banded with yel- 

 lowish ; venter immaculate ; feet whitish, thighs 

 reddish-brown towards their bases, tarsi dusky at 

 tip. 



PLATE XIII. 



