1040 LIST OF DIPTEEA. 



Trypeta Dinia, n. s., fem. Fulva, capitejlavo, abdomine piceo bad 

 fulvo, terebra fulva brevi, palpis pedibusque fulvis, antennis Jla- 

 vis, alisfuscis maculis nonnullis limpidis ornatis. 

 Body tawny : head and chest beset with a few stout black bris- 

 tles : head yellow, with a fringe of short black bristles behind the 

 eyes ; sides of the face without bristles ; epistoma hardly promi- 

 nent ; eyes bright red, convex ; facets of the fore part a little larger 

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

 palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers yellow, as long as the 

 face ; third joint linear, conical at the tip, about four times the 

 length of the second ; bristle black, very slender, downy, tawny at 

 the base, full twice the length of the third joint: abdomen pitchy, 

 nearly oval, tawny at the base, a little longer and narrower than the 

 chest, clothed with short black hairs, beset with a few black bristles ; 

 tube tawny, not more than one-sixth of the length of the preceding 

 part : legs tawny, clothed with short black hairs ; shanks beset with 

 black bristles ; spines and claws black : wings dark brown, with 

 some colourless intervals at the base ; beyond these there is an ob- 

 long colourless spot in the middle of the breadth of the wing, it is 

 truncated on the side towards the tip ; beyond the middle of the 

 wing are two triangular colourless spots, which rest on the fore bor- 

 der; the second descends more than the first into the disk of the 

 wing, it points towards a narrow colourless spot at a short distance 

 within the lower cross-vein ; below this spot, a little nearer the base 

 of the wing, and communicating with the hind border, there is 

 another spot which is broader; on the hind border, very near the 

 tip of the wing, are two large colourless spots, whose sides are 

 slightly curved, the one nearest the tip is much broader than the 

 other ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and in the 

 colourless part of the fore border ; longitudinal veins very slightly 

 waving ; cross-veins nearly straight, perpendicular, adorned with 

 tawny borders ; lower cross- vein distant by rather more than its 

 length from the middle cross-vein ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



