white about the eyes;
antennae testaceous; abdomen clothed with short black bristles; legs
testaceous, tarsi piceous; wings grey, with a lurid tinge towards the
costa; veins black, discal transverse vein nearly straight, parted by
about its length from the border, and by a little more than its length
from the praebrachial transverse; alulae slightly testaceous; halteres
testaceous. Length of the body 3-1/2 lines; of the wings 6 lines.

13. ARICIA SQUALENS, n. s. _Foem._ Nigra, cinereo tomentosa; facie
argentea; antennis testaceis; thorace vittis nigris vittisque duabus
lateralibus latis testaceis; abdomine obscure testaceo; pedibus piceis;
femoribus nigris; tibiis anticis testaceis; alis cinereis; apud costam
subluridis; venis halteribusque testaceis.

_Female._ Black, with cinereous tomentum. Face silvery white; antennae
pale testaceous, third joint long, linear, extending to the epistoma;
thorax with black stripes, and on each side with a broad testaceous
stripe; abdomen dull testaceous; legs piceous; femora black, fore tibiae
testaceous; wings grey, with a lurid tinge towards the costa; veins
testaceous, discal transverse vein very slightly curved inward, parted
by much less than its length from the border, and by a little more than
its length from the praebrachial transverse; alulae whitish; halteres
testaceous. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines.

Subfam. ORTALIDES, _Haliday_.

Gen. LAMPROGASTER, _Macq._

14. LAMPROGASTER VENTRALIS, n. s. _Foem._ Testaceo-cinerea; capite apud
oculos albo, vertice luteo, facie pallide fulva; thorace lineis septem
indistinctis nigricantibus; abdomine fusco maculis dorsalibus canis,
subtus cavo lateribus ferrugineis; pedibus nigris, tibiis ferrugineo
fasciatis; alis limpidis basi subtestaceis, fasciis incompletis
guttisque fuscis apud costam nigricantibus.

_Female._ Cinereous, with a testaceous tinge. Head white about the eyes,
vertex luteous; face pale tawny, with white grooves for the antennae;
antennae tawny, small; arista slightly plumose at the base; thorax with
seven indistinct blackish lines; abdomen brown, with dorsal hoary nearly
triangular spots, under side marsupial-like or with a pouch, ferruginous
on each side; legs black, each tibia with a ferruginous band; wings
limpid, slightly testaceous at the base, with brown dots and bands, the
latter abbreviated hindward, blackish towards the costa; veins black,
testaceous towards the base; discal transverse v