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388 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
cent, yellow towards the base: chest with three pale stripes; hind-chest 
and breast tawny: abdomen slender, linear, half the breadth of the chest 
and much more than twice its length ; terminal tube testaceous, cylindri- 
eal, slightly curved downward, widening towards the tip, ferruginous 
towards the base and at the tip: legs tawny: wings pale gray, tawny at 
the base and along the fore border, adorned with many colourless spots and 
dots and beyond the middle with a short, broad, partly interrupted colour- 
less band ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the base ; lower cross-vein oblique, 
very slightly undulating: halteres pale yellow with luteous knobs. Length 
of the body 7 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
East Indies. 
TRYPETA LATA. 
Nigra; caput flavum, albo nigroque varium ; antennae flave, apice picee ; 
thoraa albo quinquevittatus ; abdomen purpureo-cyaneum, basi fla- 
vum; tibia intermedia tarsique flava; ale sublimpide, fusco fasciate 
et vittate. 
A new group of Tirypeta, allied to Odontomera. Black, head yellow» 
clothed beneath with white hairs, adorned with a band of white along the 
fore part of the eyes and across the hind side of the head ; front ferruginous, 
with a yellow disk; face black, triangular: mouth tawny, partly pitehy ; 
palpi yellow: feelers yellow ; third joint pitehy above and at the tip, more 
than twice the length of the second ; sixth black, very slender, thinly fea- 
thered with rather long hairs: chest with five white stripes, the inner pair 
very indistinct: hind-chest with a white spot on each side: breast with two 
oblique stripes on each side, one white, the other ferruginous: abdomen 
linear, blue, partly purple, pale yellow at the base, narrow and a little 
longer than the chest: legs yellow ; thighs black, with yellow tips; hind- 
thighs yellow, stout, armed beneath with black spines, adorned with a 
broad black band; fore-shanks and hind-shanks pitchy: wings almost 
colourless, brown for a short space from the base along the fore border, 
with a broad, brown band beyond the middle and with brown tips; veins 
black; third vein slightly undulating towards the tip; middle cross-vein 
straight, upright, parted by more than its length from the lower cross-vein 
which is slightly oblique: halteres pale yellow, luteous at the base and - 
at the tips. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 lines. 
Vay. 8. Fore-shanks with yellow tips; hind-shanks ferruginous. 
Brazil. 
