262 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
epistoma not prominent: mouth black ; palpi ferruginous: feelers black, 
tinged with gray, partly ferruginous beneath, third joint with four small 
orifices on the disk of the outer side, two obliquely above the other two; 
fourth and fifth tawny; sixth tawny towards the base: chest hoary, with 
four dark brown stripes, the inner pair slender, the outer pair broad, widen- 
ing towards the hind chest: two broad hoary bands on the fore borders of 
the second and third abdominal segments : thighs hoary beneath ; shanks 
fervuginous : wings whitish, yellow at the base, colourless along the hind 
border, gray at the tips; veins tawny, darker towards the tips: alule 
whitish, with yellow borders: halteres yellow. Length of the body 5 lines ; 
of the wings 8 lines. 
East Indies. 
Genus OCYPTERA, Lair. 
Ocyprera MARGINALIS, Wied. 
Var? Caput fulouum, supra nigrum, antice argentatum ; thorax niger ; 
pedes fulvi ; tarsi nigri ; ala subcineree, basi ad costam et ad venas 
Susce. 
Black : head tawny, black above, silvery white in front: feelers luteous : 
abdomen wanting: legs tawny; feet black ; wings slightly gray, brown at 
the base, along the fore border and along the veins: alule white. Length of 
the body 3}? lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 
Cape. 
Ocypreka? pdivERSA, Fem. 
Nigra ; caput auratum, antice album, subtus canum ; abdomen basi tes- 
taceum ; pedes rufi, femoribus anticis basi tarsisque nigris ; ale sub- 
limpide, ad costam fusce. 
This species does not belong to any of the genera into which the 
Ocypterate have been divided. 
Black, shining: head pale gold-colour, hoary beneath ; frontalia deep 
black, broad, almost linear; face white; its facialia without bristles ; epi- 
stoma slightly prominent; facialia of the peristoma beset with bristles : 
mouth pitchy: eyes with small facets: feelers black; third joint com- 
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