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of the clypeus ; front depressed above the antennae, a keel in the centre of the depres- 

 sion. Thorax opaque, very closely and finely punctured; the prostemum, the meso- 

 sternum, a squarish large mark above it, the tegulae, the tubercle below them, a large 

 mark in the centre of the mesonotum, the scutellum, a large mark on the metapleurae, 

 a transverse line across the apical third of the metanotum (prolonged upwards on each 

 side and ending in an oblong dot), white. Abdomen black, opaque, finely punctured ; the 

 base of the petiole and of the remaining segments, the sides also of the three apical ones 

 broadly, and the ventral surface, reddish ; the apices of the segments yellow, the yellow 

 bordered with red on the apical segment. The four anterior tarsi are fuscous ; the 

 hind pair black at the base and apex, the intermediate part white ; the apices of the 

 hind tibiae, and the spurs, black ; fore coxa?, and the base of the middle pair, yellow ; 

 hind coxae closely punctured. 



Differs from L. erythropoda in being longer ; in having a mark (not two lines) on the 

 mesonotum; in having only a small mark on the mesopleura; in having a transverse 

 yellow line on the metanotum, &c. 



5. Lissonota leucopoda. (Tab. XL fig. 20.) 



Nigra ; facie, orbitis anticis, lineis pronoti, pleiiris, sterno pedibusque, albis ; mesonoto cum tegulis pleurisque 



supra, rufis ; alia hyalinis. $ et c? . 

 Long. 8-5 millim. ; terebra 6 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba {Champion). 



Head broader than the thorax, shining, impunctate ; white, except behind (orbits 

 excepted) and at the middle of the vertex. Thorax shining, pilose (especially on 

 the metathorax) ; mesonotum bearing clearly separated punctures ; metathorax more 

 closely and strongly punctured, and with two distinct transverse keels, in front of the 

 keels almost impunctate. Abdomen finely and closely punctured. Prothorax black, 

 except on the lower side ; lower half of the mesopleurae, and nearly the whole of the 

 metapleuree, white ; upper half of the mesopleurae red. Mesonotum red, except at its 

 junction with the pronotum, where it is yellow ; sides of the scutellum, and the post- 

 scutellum, yellow. Metanotum black. Apices of the abdominal segments white; 

 sheaths of the ovipositor black, pilose. Antennae nearly as long as the body, pilose. 

 Apices of the hind tibiae, and of the tarsi, black. 



PHYTODIETUS. 



Phytodietus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. ii. p. 929. 



A not uncommon genus in the temperate regions of the globe, and probably of 

 wide distribution. I have placed here the species which Cresson has described under 

 Lampronota (=Lissonota) : they certainly do not belong either to Lampronota (=Cyllo- 

 ceria, Schiodte) or Lissonota (which name is sunk by American authors in favour of 

 Lampronota, Curtis), as they all have pectinated claws. 



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