78 LEPIDOPTERA. 



D. Abdomen with six or seven belts ; anal tuft 



slender. Ichneumonformis. 

 DD. Abdomen with four or five bright yellow belts ; 

 anal tuft large, black in the male, yellow in 

 the female. Cynipiformis. 

 DDD. Abdomen with three or four slender belts, anal 

 tuft black. Tipuliformis. 

 DDDD. Abdomen with two belts; anal tuft reddish- 

 yellow. Andrccniformis. 

 DDDDD. Abdomen with two belts ; anal tuft chesnut. 

 Scolicefoi'niis. 

 DDDDDD. Abdomen with one belt ; anal tuft black. 

 tSjjJicciformis. 

 CC. Abdominal belts red or orange. 



E. Tip of fore wings reddish-bronze. Formid- 



formis. 

 EE. Base of fore wings red. Culiciformis. 

 EEE. Fore wings without red colour. Mijopaformis. 



1. S. asiliformis, Schiff. ; vespiformis, Wcstw., 

 Stn. ; tabaniforme ; Siaud. Cat. — Expanse 1| to 1^ 

 inch. Fore wings bronzy-brown, opaque ; hind wings 

 transparent ; abdomen black with yellow belts ; palpi 

 bright yellow. 



Antenna) of moderate length, black, strongly pectinated in 

 the male, simple and rather short in the female. Palpi black 

 above, bright yellow in front. Head black ; collar yellow ; 

 thorax black ; abdomen blue-black, with three equidistant 

 yellow belts, the first and second narrow, the third broad and 

 placed close to the anal tuft. This belt in the male is very 

 broad or even divided into two. Anal tuft black, narrow in 

 the female. Legs yellow, blotched with black, the tibiae being 

 of a bright orange-yellow. Fore wings very narrow but 

 broadest near the apex, opaque, of a dark purplish-brown, 

 devoid of markings except that in the male two slender 

 transparent streaks lie between nervures, from the base one- 



