386 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
fifth veins ; veins black, tawny at the base ; lower cross-vein upright, al-- 
most straight. Length of the body 2} lines; of the wings 64 lines. 
East Indies. 
TRYPETA QUADRIGUITA. 
Fusea ; caput flavum; antenne ferruginee ; pedes picet, tarsis fulvis ; 
ale nigro-fusca, maculis guttisque albis fasciaque apicali limpida. 
Acinia, Desv. Dark brown, thinly clothed with short white hairs: 
head yellow with a whitish covering, beset behind with some white spines ; 
front ferruginous ; epistoma not prominent: feelers ferruginous; third 
joint conical, longer than the second; sixth black, bare, very slender, 
tawny at the base: chest with a few long black hairs: abdomen wanting : 
leg pitchy ; trochanters, feet and tips of shanks tawny: wings blackish 
brown, with four or five angular white spots along the fore border between 
the base and the middle, and with a slender colourless band on the tip and 
on the adjoining part of the fore border; three white dots near the base, 
four on the disk, and two oblique streaks on the hind border; veins black, 
pale yellow in the white parts ; first and second much curved; transverse 
veins slightly oblique, lower une somewhat waved: halteres pale yellow. 
Length of the body 23? lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 
South America. 
TRYPETA PANTHERINA. 
Cervina ; caput fulvum ; thorax et abdomen confertim guttata et macu- 
lata; scutellum apice et abdomen basi fulva; pedes fulvi; tarsis 
posticis. albis; ale fusca, nigro-fusco maculate et guitate, gultis 
nonnullis margineque postico limpidis. 
Acinia, Desv. Fawn colour: head tawny, white in front and beneath : 
mouth pitchy ; palpitawny: feelers tawny ; third joint a little longer than 
broad, much longer and broader than the second; sixth long, slender, bare, 
black, tawny at the base, springing from the base of the third joint: chest 
and abdomen adorned with very numerous spots and dots, many of which 
are confluent ; tip of the scutcheon and base of the abdomen tawny: legs 
tawny; hind-feet white, with black tips: wings brown, colourless along 
