LEPTIS FASCIATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Velvet-black; thorax with golden-yellow hair ; 

 tergum fasciate with white ; wings hyaline with 

 a large brown stigma. 



SYNONYM. 



Leptis fasciata. Nobis. Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, vol. iii. p. 37. 



description. 



The fundamental colour of the thorax is the 

 same with that of the other parts of the body ; 

 hypostoma in a particular light cinereous ; pleura 

 and pectus dark lurid; poisers fuscous, scapus 

 whitish; wing nervures brown, stigma rather 

 large, brown and distinct; tergum on the poste- 

 rior margin of each segment banded with yel- 

 lowish ; venter immaculate ; feet whitish, thighs 

 reddish-brown towards their bases, tarsi dusky at 

 tip. 



PLATE XIII. 



