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7. T. SEXMACULATA. 
Shaped nearly as in the last, but shorter; head, thorax, and 
scutellum pale yellow ; eyes fuscescent, hinder angles darker; a 
black spot on each side, on the cheeks below the eyes, two large 
subquadrate ones on the upper part of the head, two, also, large 
like-shaped ones on the anterior part of the thorax, and two 
triangular patches at the base of the scutellum, deep black ; elytra 
tinged with yellowish and subhyaline, with two wavy, somewhat 
obsolete fuscescent bands, which are deepest stained as with a 
spot, the first at the costa, the second at the termination on the 
hinder margin; a third fuscescent band also before the apex, 
leaving the extreme edge uncoloured ; under wings white, glossy, 
the upper part of the apex clouded; abdomen above black, a 
narrow lateral stripe, the hinder edges of the segments chiefly 
near the sides, and sometimes a sub-apical band, yellowish ; be- 
neath black, narrowly margined with yellow, the last segment 
yellow, longitudinally clouded with fuscous in the middle; oviduct 
black ; breast yellow, varied with black ; legs paler, claws of the 
tarsi black, a fuscous spot at the tips of the tibie. Length 13— 
expansion of wings, 34 lines. 
Gibside. This and the next may be varieties of No. 6. 
8. T. sUcUNDA. 
Of nearly the same shape as the last ; head, thorax, and scu- 
tellum yellow, the two latter immaculate ; face with faint traces 
~ of dusky ribs, the hollows whence the antenne originate, fuscous ; 
on the top of the head are two very minute approximated black 
points, situated behind two fovez ; the eyes are light fuscous, the 
margin narrowly white ; bristle of the antennz moderate ; elytra 
more shining, pale, yellowish green, a fuscous obsolete patch 
composed apparently of three short lines, each commencing near 
where the preceding terminates, a little behind the base, a small 
darker spot on the costa in a line above it, and a square, dark 
fuscous one on the under margin towards the apex, traces of a 
still fainter one on the suture in a line with the last, behind it the 
apical portion becomes tarnished with fuscous, a tint acquired 
likewise by the nervures ; abdomen above black, with the hinder 
