300 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
frontalia deep black, widening from the eyelets to the feelers whence a black — 
stripe proceeds along each side of the face ; facialia without bristles except 
at the base; epistoma hardly prominent: eyes hairy: mouth luteous; 
palpi black: feelers black; second joint ferruginous; third about four 
times the length of the second, almost reaching the epistoma: chest with 
four slender black stripes, the inner pair shorter than the outer pair: abdo- 
men obconical, much longer than the chest, with a broad black band on the 
hind border of each seyment ; under side hoary with a narrow testaceous 
band on the hind border of each segment: legs black ; thighs with a hoary 
covering: wings gray; veins black, tawny at the base; prebrachial cross- 
vein forming a very obtuse angle at its flexure, straight from thence to its 
tip; lower cross-vein with the two usual curves which are extremely slight: 
alule white: halteres ferruginous. Length of the body 44 lines; of the 
wings 8 lines. 
West Indies. 
TAGHINA VULGATA, Fem. 
Nigra, canescens ; caput auratum, subtus album ; thoraw nigro quadrivit- 
tatus ; abdomen nigro-eneum, albo subtessellatum ; ale subcineree, 
ad venas subfusce. 
Black, with a hoary covering : head with a pale gold covering, white 
and clothed with whitish hairs beneath ; frontalia black, widening from the 
eyelets to the feelers; face white, facialia bristly along the whole length : 
epistoma not prominent: eyes hairy: mouth pitehy; palpi tawny: feelers 
black ; third joint reaching the epistoma, full four times the length of the 
second ; sixth joint very slender, bare, rather stout towards the hase: chest 
with four black stripes: abdomen bronze-black, obconical, a little narrower 
but hardly longer than the chest, slightly tessellated with white : legs black : 
wings pale gray, slightly tinged with brown along the borders of the veins ; 
veins black, tawny towards the base; prebrachial vein straight, forming 
a very obtuse angle at its flexure, almost straight from thence tw its tip, 
which is very near the tip of the cubital vein; lower cross-vein with the 
two usual curves, the lower deeper than the upper: alule white, with pale 
yellow borders: halteres tawny. Length of the body 34 lines; of the 
wings 7 lines. 
South America. 
