1896.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, 553 



curved ; autennse scarcely as long as thorax, thickened apically, the 

 first joint of flagellum as long as the two following united ; the head, 

 as a whole, is fairly well punctured ; dorsulum and scutellum im- 

 punctate or with exceedingly fine punctures, the middle segment 

 with more distinct punctures ; legs robust, strongly spinose ; abdo- 

 men finely and rather closely punctured, the apical margins of the 

 segments smooth in a transverse sense ; sixth dorsal strongly punc- 

 tured, not very strongly ridged laterally, ventrals rather flat, the 

 second feebly convex. Length, 22 mm. 



Liris haemorrhoidalis Fabr. 



Sheikh Husein, September 30, 1894. One male specimen. 

 Notogonia apicalis n. sp. 



$ . — Black ; last three or four abdominal segments red ; mandi- 

 bles and tegulse, in part, obscurely rufotestaceous ; face, clypeus, 

 cheeks, fore-femora and thorax beneath, and apex of middle seg- 

 ment with dense silvery pubescence ; the sides of thorax, legs and 

 abdomen-with a sericeous pile, which, when the insect is held in cer- 

 tain lights, appears on the abdomen to form apical bands on the 

 segments ; head finely and closely punctured ; distance between the 

 eyes above nearly as great as the length of the third and fourth 

 antennal joint?, much greater than the length of the second and 



third ; flagellum acuminate apically, 

 thickest toward base, the first joint a 

 little longer than the second and some- 

 what curved ; clypeus depressed trans- 

 versely before the anterior margin, the 

 / latter a little prominent in the middle ; 



^^^- '^- dorsulum with tolerably strong and 



Venation (fore wing), Noto- ^j^^^ punctures, the scutellum with 

 S[oma ap2calis. . , , „ , 



the punctures much nner and sparser, 

 shining; mesopleurse with shallow, somewhat separated punctures, 

 the episternal suture of the mesothorax distinct and strongly foveo- 

 lated ; middle segment truncate behind, above coarsely and trans- 

 versely rugose, divided longitudinally by a strong medial carina, 

 which terminates before the apex, sides coarsely and obliquely stri- 

 ated ; legs simple, not peculiarly modified ; wings fusco-hyaline, 

 nervures black ; marginal cell obliquely truncate at tip ; second 

 submarginal almost triangular, much narrowed above, the width at 

 the top equal to about one-half the distance between the recurrent 

 nervures on the cubital nervure; abdomen impunctate, the second 



