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the middle; testaceous at the tip and slightly testaceous on each side. 

 Abdomen black above; under side with (bur broad transverse black streaks 

 on each side, with three black subapical spots and with a black apical spot. 

 Legs testaceous, slightly tinged wiib led, rather lonfr and slender; a blackish 

 dot on each of the femora; tibiae furrowed. Fore wings with an elongated 

 black spot in the disk beyond the middle; membrane and hind wings 

 black. Length of the body 7 lines. 



a. Batchian. Presented by W, W. Saunders, Esq. 



83. Strachia i'Yrophila. 

 LcEte ochraceo-rtifa, vitens, a.ipern punctata ; caput cyaneo himaculatnm, 

 lateribus vix reJJexis, (obis lateralibus lobum medium inx superanti- 

 bus ; rostrum lutettm, basi nifum ; unlenncB nigrce, corporis dimidio 

 longiores, articulo lo rufo, 2o luteo nujricante lineato ; thorax antice 

 glaber ; sculelhnn antice nigro marginatum; pectoris latera nigra 

 strigata ; venter albidus,fasciis quinque lalis maculaque subapicali 

 jmrpureis ; a/ce antica membrana nigricante. 



Bright orange-red, shining, elongate-oval, rather roughly punctured. 

 Head with two irregularly triangular blue spots on the hind border; sides 

 hardly reflexed ; lateral lobes hardly extending beyond the middle lobe. 

 Rostrum luteous, extending to the hind coxje; first joint bright red. 

 Antennae black, much more than half the length of the body ; first joint red, 

 not extending to the front of the head; second luteous, about thrice the 

 length of the third, with a blackish line on the outer side; fourth a little 

 more than twice the length of the third; fifth longer than the fourlli. 

 Thorax with a large smooth space on each side in front of the slight trans- 

 verse furrow; sides reflexed in front; angles rounded. Scutellum not 

 extending beyond the an<>le of the corium, with a very slight longitudinal 

 keel and with a semi-elliptical black band on the fore border. Prosternum, 

 inesosternum and metasternum with a black streak on each side. Abdo- 

 men beneath whitish, with five broad purple bands and with a purple sub- 

 apical spot. Legs slender; tibiae furrowed ; tarsi testaceous. Fore wings 

 with a blackish membrane. Length of the body 6 lines. 



Very closely allied to the preceding species. 

 a. Batchian. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



84. Strachia reciproca. 



Nigro-cyanea, nitens, purpurea varia, aspere punctata ; caput ochraceo- 

 rufutn, margine postico nigro-purpureo, lobo medio apicem versus 

 liturisque nonnullis pallide testaceis ; antennce nigra, corporis dimidio 

 longiores, articulo \o subtus luteo; thorax margine antico, lateribus 

 fasciaque ochraceis ; scutellum disco ochraceo, apice albido ; pectus 

 albido transverse strigatum ; venter disco, margine fasciisqtte albidis ; 

 pedes rnfo-ochracei,fimoribus basi albidis, tibiis supra nigro-cyaneis, 

 femoribus posticis nigro-cyaneo unimaculatis ; alee a.ntica basi 

 maculaque nw.rginali magna trigona ochraceis, membrana fusca. 



Blackish blue, elliptical, shining, roughly punctured, tinged with 

 purple. Head ochraceous-red, witli an irregular blackish purple band 

 along the hind border, and with some pule testaceous marks between the 



