120 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 
‘TRUPANEA PERFECTA, Mas. 
Fulva, thorace nigro quadrivittato, abdomine supra nigro segmentorum 
lateribus fulvo maculatis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis fuscis ad 
costam apice cinereis. 
Body black: head adorned with a tawny covering, which has a golden 
hue in front, thinly clothed above with black hairs, beset behind with black 
bristles, thickly clothed behind and beneath with tawny hairs ; face beset 
with bright tawny bristles, and towards the crown with a very few black 
bristles: eyes adorned with indistinct colours ; fore part flat, composed of 
large facets: sucker black, clothed at the tip with a few short tawny hairs : 
palpi black, beset with long black bristles: feelers black ; first and second 
joints beset with black bristles ; third spindle-shaped, much longer than 
the first and second ; bristle rather more than twice the length of the third 
joint, very slightly widened at the tip: chest and breast adorned with a 
tawny covering, which on the chest is interrupted by four black stripes ; sides 
and hind-chest beset with a few black bristles: breast partly clothed with 
tawny hairs: abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, nearly twice the 
length of the chest, clothed on each side with tawny hairs, which abound 
most towards the base, and there form tufts on the first segment ; @ érian- 
gular tawny spot on the side of each segment, under side tawny ; tip and 
appendages black, shining: legs black, clothed with black hairs and 
bristles; thighs and shanks also clothed with tawny hairs ; foot-cushions 
tawny: wings brown, dark gray on the fore border at the tip; wing-ribs 
pitchy ; veins black; poisers pale tawny, with pale yellow knobs. Length 
of the body 5% lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
South America. 
TrupaNEA contracta, Mas et Fem. 
Fulvo-cinerea, thorace vittis quatuor fuscis ornato, pectore cano, abdomine 
nigro segmentorum marginibus posticis ventreque fulvis, antennis 
nigris basi fulvis, pedibus fulvis, tarsis posticis femoribusque nigris, 
alis subfulvis. 
Male. Head adorned with a pale tawny covering, thickly clothed with 
whitish hairs ; epistoma armed with whitish spines, which are not less than 
twelve in number; a row of whitish bristles behind the eyes: eyes bronze- 
