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382 iNSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
towards the base and along the fore border ; lower cross-vein slightly ob- 
lique, hardly curved inward, clouded with pale brown: halteres yellow. 
Length of the body 44 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Cape. 
Trypeta FLExuosA, Mas. 
Flava ; antenne lutee; scutellum piceo trimaculatum ; abdomen piceo 
trifasciatum ; ale limpide, maculis anticis fasciaque interrupta 
fuscis, vena pobrachiali contorta. 
Yellow ; face broad, whitish ; epistoma slightly prominent: mouth 
and palpi tawny: feelers luteous; third joint conical, nearly twice the 
length of the second; sixth black, feathered with short hairs, yellow at the 
base: scutcheon with three pitchy spots on the hind border, the side pair 
small: hind chest whitish : abdomen a little shorter than the chest, not 
longer than broad, with three pitchy bands, first and second bands inter- 
rupted ; legs yellow: wings colourless, with a few small irregular pale brown 
spots along the fore border, and with a slender interrupted band ; yeins black, 
yellow at the base; lower cross-vein clouded with pale brown, almost up- 
right, hardly inclined inward; pobrachial vein much contorted; alule 
white: halteres pale yellow. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 
4% lines. 
Cape Coast. 
TRYPETA VARIA. 
Ferrugineo-rufa; thorax nigro bivittatus ; abdomen nigrum ; ale lim- 
pide, maculis quatuor transversis basalibus fasciisque duabus albo 
guttatis fuscis. 
Ferruginous ved: chest with two broad black stripes: abdomen black, 
shining: wings colourless, with four small transverse dark brown spots near 
the hase, and with two very broad dark brown bands, which are united in the 
dish, and are parted by a triangular space beneath the fore border ; the first 
incloses two colourless dots towards the base of the wing and a small transverse 
elliptical spot in the disk, it extends from the fore border to a litile beyond the 
middle of the wing, and there emits two branches, the first is short and sub- 
quadrate, the second is conical and nearly reaches the hind border; the 
second band occupies the tip of the wing, incloses an oblique colourless 
