TETANOCERA. 11? 



vein is a little before the middle of the discal cell ; the posterior 

 transverse vein is a little curved and rather steep. 

 Hob. Middle States. (Osten-Sacken.) 



S. T. sparsa Loew. % and 9. — Seta antennarum albo-plumosa ; 

 thorax vittatus ; alse maculato-reticulatse, fasciis duplicatis nullis, limbo 

 marginis antici obscu.ro nullo. 



Bristle of the antennae plumose with white, thorax striped, wings reticu- 

 lated with dark spots forming no double bands, costal border without 

 dark margin. Long. corp. 0.24. Long. al. 0.22. 



Yellowish-brown, opaque. Front dark yellow, with the middle 

 stripe broad, impressed, polished, not narrowed anteriorly ; a small 

 black dot is on each side in the neighborhood of the orbit, and a 

 second is more anteriorly between the antennae and the anterior 

 corner of the eye. Face white, not much receding, rather exca- 

 vated in the middle. Antennas yellow ; the third joint nearly as 

 long as the second, a little excised on the upper side, rather pointed ; 

 the bristle of the antennas with the base yellow, its pubescence 

 whitish. Upper side of the thorax with two brown middle stripes 

 connected posteriorly and separated anteriorly, and not reaching 

 the anterior border of the thorax; two broader lateral stripes are 

 of the same color, but not so distinct. The scutellum also is of 

 the colour of the thorax, but dusted with whitish on the sides. 

 Pleurae paler than the upper side of the thorax, having, towards 

 their superior border, a brownish-red longitudinal stripe continued 

 as far as below the poisers. The abdomen hfts a very indistinct, 

 dark middle line interrupted at the incisions ; on each side, at a 

 distance from the lateral border, a brighter stripe not differing 

 sensibly in color from the general color of the abdomen. Legs 

 pale yellowish; tibiae not darker than the femora; tarsi blackish 

 towards their tips. Wings only little yellowish ; the reticulation 

 is formed by very narrow, gray stripes running in the middle of 

 the intervals, and by brown spots reaching from the longitudinal 

 veins as far as the stripes ; the brown spots are arranged so as to 

 form no double bands, showing only the anterior indistinct begin- 

 nings of some narrow simple bands, the number of which is three, 

 besides the narrow margin of the tip of the wing. The small trans- 

 verse vein is a little before the middle of the discal cell ; the pos- 

 terior transverse vein is only very little curved and rather steep. 



Hab. Middle States. (Osten-Sacken.) 



