It belongs to a small assemblage of banded species which occur also in Mexico, the West Indies, and Central America, but which have the largest and most showy representative in the T.

Rubra of Brazil.

Our species is a dark brown insect, having the under-side of the body, the head, front and side margins of the prothorax, the legs, hind margin of scutellum, and base of wing-covers red, the latter with two narrow bands of orange, one before the middle, the other behind it ; besides these there is a band of the same color across the middle of the prothorax.

Usually there are two black spots upon the head, and four rows of others on the venter.

It is one-third of an inch in length, and measures three-fourths of an inch across the spread wing-covers.