96 THE CANADIAN BNtOMOLOGlST. 



2. Harpiphorus VARiPiCTUS. — $. Length o. 35 inch; expanse wings 

 0.80. 



Head and thorax black with white markings ; antennse with terminal 

 joints white ; abdomen and legs rufo-testaceous. Head black, with shal- 

 low punctures ; distinct sutures from base of antennae to vertex ; clypeus 

 trmicate ; labrum rounded ; clypeus, mandibles, palpi, entire orbits and 

 posterior angle, triangular spot at base of antennae, the tips of two basal 

 joints, sixth in part and seven to nine entirely white. 



Thorax polished, black ; borders of prothorax, tegulae, a large spot on 

 flanks, a smaller one over middle coxae, the scutell'um, two short lines 

 on lobes of meso-thorax, the cenchri, the coxae in larger part, and the 

 trochanters, ivory white ; wings hyaline, with a slight yellowish tinge ; 

 nervures brown, stigma and costa testaceous ; lanceolate cell with 

 straight crossline ; hinder wings with one middle cell. Legs, except; 

 coxae and trochanters, rufous ; tips of posterior femora, and a dot on tip 

 of tibia behind, blackish ; inner spur of anterior tibia strongly bifid ; all 

 the claws bifid, rufous. 



Abdomen rufo-testaceous above, paler beneath. Captured by Mr. 

 Fletcher, while collecting with me near Hull, loth June. 



This handsome insect is near variatius Nort., and veisicolor Nort., 

 and has also a strong superficial resemblance in size and coloration to 

 Strongylogaster pallidicornis Nort. The venation of the anterior wings 

 is peculiar ; the lanceolate cell in each has two short straight cross-lines, 

 which form a small cell near its middle. 



3. Phymatocera nigra. — $. Robust, shining black; length 0.20 

 inch; breadth of wings 0.45 inch. 



Head broad, but not so wide as thorax ; a brief groove above each 

 antenna and each posterior ocellus ; clypeus truncate, labrum edged with 

 white, tips of mandibles rufous ; antennae as long as head and thorax, 

 slender, gradually tapering to tip; joints 3 and 4 sub-equal, 5 slightly 

 shorter, remainder of nearly equal length. 



Thorax polished ; beneath with very fine short pubescence ; wing- 

 scales white ; median lobe of meso-thorax short, sutures faint, scutellum 

 sparsely punctate ; flat, polished, with two shallow pits at base ; wings hya- 

 line ; nervures brownish, first recurrent received in middle of second sub- 

 marginal cell, second recurrent about one-third from base of third sub- 

 marginal cell, nervure dividing marginals straight ; legs whitish, base of 



