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402 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
middle cross-vein upright; lower cross-vein very oblique, very slightly 
curved outward, almost parallel to the hind border: halteres tawny, with 
pitchy knobs. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines. 
Columbia. 
TETANOCERA AUSTRALIS. 
Ferruginea ; caput luteum, lateribus albidis ; antennae picea, basi fulve ; 
thorax vitlis tribus, scutello pectore ventreque testacets ; pedes testacei, 
femoribus cinereis, posterioribus flavo fasciatis, tibiis apice tarsisque 
piceis; ala alba, fusco reticulate. 
Ferruginous: head luteous above, whitish and shining on each side of 
the face which is yellow ; tubercle of the eyelets pitchy ; peristoma rather 
prominent: mouth ferruginous: feelers tawny ; third joint pitchy, almost 
conical, as long as the second; sixth downy, very much longer than the 
third; chest with three testaceous stripes in front, and with one along each 
side: scutcheon and breast testaceous: abdomen linear, a little longer 
and narrower than the chest, testaceous beneath: legs testaceous; thighs 
cinereous; posterior thighs with a yellow band in the middle; shanks with 
pitchy tips; feet pitchy, ferruginous at the base: wings white, thickly 
reticulated with brown; veins black, tawny at the base: halteres white. 
Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 
Van Dieman’s Land. 
Genus THECOMYTA, Perty. 
TuEcoMyIA LonGicornis, Mas et Foam. 
Perty, Delect. Anim. Artic. Brazil, var.? 
Picea ; caput fulvum, vertice rufo maculis duabus nigris ; antenne nigre, 
basi fulve, apice albe ; thorax vittis tribus ventreque fluvis ; pedes 
fulvi, nigro varti ; ale cinerea, ad costam fusca. 
Pitchy : head tawny, much produced in front; crown bright pale red, 
with a black spot on each side in front; mouth long, black, tawny at the 
base: feelers tawny; second joint beset with black bristles ; third black, 
tawny at the base, longer than the second, slightly tapering from near the 
