456 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
second and third rather narrow; third and the following segments 
together subfusiform ; tip testaceous, pilose. Legs reddish tawny, stout, 
fore tibie with small black apical spurs. Wings somewhat ferruginous ; 
disks of most of the areolets nearly limpid ; veins ferruginous. Halteres 
yellow. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 
Amazon District. 
Dasyeocon Torrinus, Mas. ° 
Niger ; thorax cinereo tomentosus ; antennarum articulus Sus fusifor- 
mis, sat latus; thorax albido bivittatus ; abdomen rufum, apicem 
versus nigrum ; pedes obscure rufi, femoribus supra tarsisque nigris ; 
ale nigro-fusce. 
Black. Head with cinereous tomentum. ‘Third joint of the an- 
tenne fusiform, rather broad. Thorax with two whitish stripes. Pectus 
whitish. Abdomen red, black towards the tip, which is red beneath. 
Legs dark red; femora above and tarsi, except towards the tips, black. 
Wings blackish brown, paler at the tips and along the hind borders. 
Halteres testaceous, with ferruginous knobs. Length of the body 6 
lines; of the wings 10 lines. 
Port Natal. 
Subgenus MICROSTYLUM, Macq. 
Dasypocon partitus, Fem. 
Canum ; antenne nigre ; thorax supra cinereus, fascia media albida 
duabusque lateralibus fuscis ; abdomen apicem versus nigrum ; pedes 
picei, femoribus anterioribus subtus rufis, posticis rufis apice picets ; 
ale sublimpide, venis fusco subnebulosis. 
Allied to D. Saverrio and to D. Blesus. Hoary. Head whitish, 
with whitish hairs. Face flat. Epistoma prominent. Mystax with a 
few white bristles. Autenne black; third joint elongate, fusiform. 
Thorax cinereous above, with two brown stripes, which include a whitish 
stripe. Abdomen oblanceolate, slender, nearly thrice the length of the 
