5S4 LIST OF MPTERA. 



36. Mallophora purpurea. 



Atra, nigro hirta ; antenna rufo cinctce ; scutellum, thoracisque 

 latera picea ; abdomen purpureum, segmentorum marginibus 

 posticis fulvis ; pedes picei, tarsis fulvis ; alee fuscce. 



Trupanea purpurea, Walk. Zool. viii. Append, xcviii. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



b, c. Santarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



In this and the preceding species the abdomen is pubescent, 

 not hairy. The fore fork of the radial vein is slightly undulating, 

 connected with the subcostal very near the tip of the latter and near 

 the tip of the wing. Third externo-medial vein curved outward. 

 Subanal joining the anal near the border. 



Genus 3. TRUPANEA. 



Corpus non depressum, nee ciliatum ; antennae articulo3obrevi, 

 stylo sat crasso ; alae areolis tribus submarginalibus. 



Trupanea, Macq. Dipt. Exot. i. 2, 91. 

 Asilus p., Fabr. ; Wied. 



Loew rejects the name Trupanea for this genus, and divides it 

 into three genera, which are here mentioned as groups. 



Group 1. Promachus. 



Corpus crassum, plus minusve hirtum. Antenna? remotae ; arti- 

 culus 3us brevis aut mediocriter elongatus. Abdomen obconicum, 

 mediae longitudinis. Pedes sat validi, non incrassati ; tarsorum arti- 

 culus lus 2o aequalis aut paullo longior. Mas. — Abdomen alas non 

 superans. Sexualia mediae maguitudiuis, valde extantia. Fcem. — 

 Sexualia elongata, stylata. 



Promachus, Loeiv, Linn. Ent. iii. 390,2; 403. 



Wing-veins like those of Mallophora. Male. — Sexualia larger 

 and more prominent than those of Mallophora. Fern. — Sexualia 

 more divergent than those of Mallophora. 



Trupanea maculata Fabr. ; T. picta Meig. ; T. leonina Loew ; T. 

 trichonotus Wied. ; T. fasciata Fabr. 



Group 2. Philodicus. 

 Corpus nudiusculum. Antennae approximatae ; articulus 3us 





