. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Natural history. 462 R. OSTEN SACKEN ring etc. — Untii this is proved however , the name Themara may remain for it. Trypeta (Acanthoneura) polyxena n. sp. 9 . Wings brown, with several hyahne spots ; apex with a well defined yellow segment. Length : 7-8 mm. Head, including the antennae, brownish-yellow; frontal stripe more reddish ; bristles black. Thorax brownish-yellow, with some faintly-marked brownish stripes ; metanotum black on the sides ; abdomen black , two basal segments yellow , the second with a black Ijand in the middle. Halte
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Natural history. 462 R. OSTEN SACKEN ring etc. — Untii this is proved however , the name Themara may remain for it. Trypeta (Acanthoneura) polyxena n. sp. 9 . Wings brown, with several hyahne spots ; apex with a well defined yellow segment. Length : 7-8 mm. Head, including the antennae, brownish-yellow; frontal stripe more reddish ; bristles black. Thorax brownish-yellow, with some faintly-marked brownish stripes ; metanotum black on the sides ; abdomen black , two basal segments yellow , the second with a black Ijand in the middle. Halteres and legs brownish- yellow. Wings brown with the following white spots : a triangle on the costa at the end of tlie fi]*st vein ; a small round ' spot about tlie middle of the first post, c. ; a larger, oval spot in the discal cell, almost under the small. Acantkoneu/'u 2iolyxeHa. crossvein; a triangle on the hind margin , in the second post. c. ; a suljyaline band I'eaches across the third post. c. into the discal, where it becomes yellowish ; two small subhyaline spots, coarc- tate in the middle , in tlie costal cell, inside of the auxiliary vein ; a yellowish spot immediately beyond this vein ; and finally, a well defined yellow segment forming the apex of tlie wing, within which, at the tip of the third vein, tliere is a small brown spot. Hal). Java {Beccari, 1874); one female. NB. Tliis species agrees with the characters of Acanthoneura Macq. I). E. II, 3, 220 : bristly costa, first and third veins, un- dulated second vein ; arista plumose etc. The typical species, A. fusciprmifs, from Bengal, is even very like poii/.mna in the di- stribution of tlie spots on the wings, but Macquaj-ts description and figure are too indefinite. My only specimen is very much denuded of thoracic maci'ochetae; still I can see by the scars, that there were four of them on the scutollum. The third an- tennal joint is longer than broad, with nearly parallel Please note that these ima
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