230 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
tips; tips of the claws black: wings colowrless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 
black, tawny towards the base and along the fore border ; poisers yellow. 
Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 
Cape. 
Syrrnus munpbus, Mas. 
ineus, capite scutelloque flavis, thoracis lateribus fulvis, pectore chalybeo, 
abdomine nigro fasciis quinque flavis ornato, antennis ferrugineis, 
pedibus fulvis, alis subfascis apice margineque postico limpidis. 
Head pale yellow, whitish and clothed with white hairs beneath and 
behind: eyes coppery; all the facets very small: mouth tawny: feelers 
pale ferruginous, darkerat the base: chest brassy, clothed with tawny hairs ; 
sides tawny ; scutcheon yellow : breast chalybeous, clothed with hoary hairs: 
abdomen obconical, black, much longer than the chest, clothed on each 
side of the base with a tuft of tawny hairs, adorned with three broad and 
two slender yellow bands, fore border and hind border of the first concave in 
the middle, second slightly concave on the hind border and having a slight 
angle in advance on the fore border; third straight; fourth and fifth 
tawny, very small: legs pale tawny; tips of the claws black: wings brown- 
ish, colourless at the tips and along the hind borders ; wing-ribs and veins 
tawny, the latter black towards the tips; poisers tawny. Length of the 
body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 
East Indies. 
Syrpnus TRIcoLoR, Mas. 
Nigra, capite scutelloque flavis, abdomine rufo cincto, antennis piceis, 
pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis fascia latissima abbreviata fusca 
ornatis. 
Black: head yellow, whitish and clothed with whitish hairs behind ; 
face thinly clothed with black hairs, having a black stripe along half the 
length to the epistoma : eyes pitchy, thickly clothed with very short black 
hairs: feelers pitchy: chest clothed with tawny hairs; seutcheon yellow : 
abdomen nearly elliptical, a little longer and broader than the chest, 
adorned with a very broad red band which occupies nearly half the length : 
legs black ; foot-cushions pitchy : wings pale gray, with a very large brown 
spot which extends from the base to beyond the middle and occupies the whole 
