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nent: eyes red, convex; fore part rather flat, its facets much larger 

 than those elsewhere: sucker pale tawny, clothed with tawny hairs ; 

 palpi pale tawny, beset with short black bristles : feelers tawny, 

 about half the length of the face ; third joint conical, downy, a little 

 longer than the second ; bristle black, downy, slender, tawny at the 

 base about thrice the length of the third joint: chest and breast 

 fawn-colour: abdomen pitchy, spindle-shaped, shining, narrower 

 than the chest and nearly twice its length, clothed with short tawny 

 hairs : legs tawny ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; claws black : wings 

 dark brown, tawny at the base, rather long and broad, adorned with 

 about sixteen colourless spots of various size j four of those of the 

 larger size are on the fore border ; a smaller one is near the tip of 

 the wing, which is also colourless; there are four along the hind 

 border, and six in the disk of the wing; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 

 pitchy, tawny at the base ; lower cross-vein very slightly curved out- 

 ward, separated by rather more than its length from the middle 

 cross-vein, which is very slightly curved outward ; longitudinal 

 veins straight ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 2f lines ; of 

 the wings 5 lines. 

 a. Bahia. 



Trypeta Sarnia, n. s., fem. Fulva, capite nigro macidato cyaneo 

 omato, thorace ferrugineo trivittato, scutello nigro bimaculato, 

 terebra ferruginea nigro triviltaia, pa/pis antennis pedibusque 

 fulvis, femoribus nigro rnaculatis, alis fulvis, annulis racliis fas- 

 ciisque variis. 



Body tawny, clothed with tawny hairs : head beset with long 

 tawny and black bristles, its hind part fringed with short tawny and 

 black bristles ; two deep black spots on the sides of the crown, hav- 

 ing between them at the base of the feelers a smaller black spot ; 

 head adorned with a black spot on each side beneath ; face tinged 

 with blue lustre, with a black spot on its disk; its sides without 

 bristles; an oblique black spot adorned with blue reflections on each 

 side of the epistoma, which is slightly prominent : eyes brassy 

 green, spotted with red, slightly convex : facets of the fore part 

 larger than those elsewhere : sucker tawny, clothed with tawny 

 hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers tawny, a little 

 shorter than the face ; third joint conical, downy, slightly curved 

 upward, rounded at the tip, longer than the second : chest adorned 

 with three pale ferruginous stripes, beset with a few black bristles ; 

 scutcheon armed also with some tawny bristles, and having a black 

 spot on each side : abdomen clothed with tawny hairs for more than 

 one-third of the length from the base, tapering from the base to the 

 tip, much longer than the chest, which it equals in breadth at the 



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