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Campoplex? bellus, n. sp. 



Yellow, abdomen and legs honey-yellow; antennae, three lines on mesothorax, 

 spot on pleura, another on scutellum, and an inverted U on metathorax, black; 

 antennae and legs stout: thorax robust, gibbous ; abdomen short, ovate, com- 

 pressed, with a slender petiole: wings moderate, hyaline, dusky at tip, areolet 

 very minute, almost obsolete, petiolated. 



Female? — -Head very transverse, flat, entirely yellow, except a black- 

 ish spot on the vertex enclosing the ocelli ; eyes ovate, not prominent ; 

 antennae nearly as long as the body, stout, black, the two basal joints 

 yellowish, the other joints indistinct. Thorax gibbous, short and robust, 

 yellow ; mesothorax with three broad, black, longitudinal stripes, the 

 middle oue abbreviated behind, the lateral ones abbreviated before and 

 confluent behind by means of a subtriangular spot in the excavation in 

 front of the scutellum; on each side of the pleura a rather large, trans- 

 verse, black spot; scutellum gibbous, shining, yellow, with a large black 

 spot behind, as well as another on the postscutellum ; metathorax not 

 prominent, yellow, with an elongate spot on each side coufluent at base 

 with the spot on the postscutellum and forming an inverted II ; the 

 elevated lines obsolete. Wings moderate, hyaline, iridescent, the apex 

 dusky; nervures and stigma fuscous; areolet extremely minute, almost 

 obsolete, petiolated, the cubital nervure within the submarginal cell 

 strongly arcuated towards the costa. Legs yellow, short, the posterior 

 pair longer and robust, honey-yellow, their coxae black at base; tips of 

 four anterior tibiae with a very long inner spur, and a short outer one 

 on the middle pair, not visible on the anterior pair; the posterior tibias 

 each with two long stout spurs, of which the inner one is longest ; pos- 

 terior femora robust and simple. Abdomen short; 1st segment slender, 

 slightly dilated at tip with a subobsolete tubercle on each side near the 

 apex ; 2nd and following segments together broadly ovate and much 

 compressed, honey-yellow, dusky on the disk of the 2nd segment ; at 

 tip of the 1st segment above a large blackish spot. Length 2V Hues; 

 expanse of wiugs 5 lines. 



Collection. — Dr. J. (Jundlach. One specimen. 



This pretty little species will probably form a new genus, as T cannot 

 reconcile it with any genus at present known to me; the robust thorax, 

 the gibbous scutellum, the stout antennae and legs, the short, broad, 

 ovate, compressed abdomen, and the long, unequal tibial spurs, are cha- 

 racters not combined in any genus known to me ; but having only a 

 single specimen, which, judging from the broad abdomen, is apparently 

 a female, I do not care to form another genus, and for the present refer 

 it to Campojilex, to which it seems most closely allied. 



