194 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
hind border the wings are colourless ; this space contains five brown spots, 
and is interrupted by the brown part, which ewtends across its middle to the 
hind border, and nearer the base of the wing is deeply and irregularly in- 
dented by it; the outline of the brown is also irregular in other parts, and 
apparently consists of incomplete spots ; wing-ribs and veins black ; pois- 
ers black with white tips. Length of the body 4—4} lines; of the wings 
13—14 lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. Swan River. 
Genus PHTHIRIA, Meigen. 
Purura cracitis, Mas. 
Nigra, pectore fusco, abdomine flavo-fusco, antennis nigris, pedibus 
piceis, tibiis ferrugineis, pedibus posticis nigris, alis cinereis ad 
costam subfuscis. 
Deep black, clothed with black hairs: head clothed beneath with 
hoary hairs; peristoma pitchy: sucker nearly as long as the body: breast 
dark brown, some of its hairs tawny : abdomen obconical, yellowish brown, 
a little longer and narrower than the chest: legs pitchy, long and slen- 
der, clothed with short black hairs; shanks ferruginous; hind legs 
black: wings gray, brownish beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs ferrugi- 
nous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base; poisers tawny ; knobs pitchy 
above. Length of the body 24 lines; of the wings 6} lines. 
East India. 
Puram umaris, Fem. 
Nigra, capite thoracis lateribus scutello pectoreque flavis nigro variis, 
abdomine fulvo basi nigro fasciato apice compresso, antennis nigris, 
pedibus fulvis, femoribus piceo vittalis, tibiis apice piceis, tarsis 
nigris, alis limpidis. 
Head whitish yellow, partly clothed with hoary hairs, black behind 
with the exception of a band along the hind borders of the eyes: mouth 
Dlack, a little shorter than the chest: feelers black; third joint nearly 
linear for half the length, slightly tapering from thence to the tip, more 
than twice the length of the first joint: chest black ; sides and breast yellow 
