162 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [1892 



wings. Surface smooth, hardly polished. Head short, 

 a little narrower than the front of the pronotum, closely 

 pubescent,, with the sutures sharply defined ; front 

 prominent, almost acutely ridged, carrying a round pit 

 above, with the lateral raised border yellow, the supra- 

 antennal tablet feebly prominent, partly bordered with 

 yellow ; antennae long, slender, black ; rostrum pale 

 jpiceous at base, reaching behind the middle coxae. 

 Pronotum short, black, moderately pubescent, rugulose, 

 emarginated in the lateral margin behind the middle, 

 the edge in front of this with several short, blunt teeth; 

 the posterior angles moderately x>roduced, reflexed, and 

 rounded, the anterior angles hardly rounded, armed with 

 a blunt tooth. Sternum dull bla^ck, hoary pubescent,' 

 with the raised borders of the lateral and posterior 

 segments bright orange. Legs bright orange, with the 

 coxae, femora and tibiae broadly spread with black, the 

 tarsi piceous, or black ; wings hyaline, long but not nar- 

 rowed at tip, with the base of both pairs piceous, into 

 which the red color of the flaps runs and extends upon 

 the supporting pieces of the thorax, veins coarse, piceous 

 black, as also the post-costal rib beyond the anostomosis, 

 the basal areole long and narrow, infuscated, bordered 

 anteriorly by an orange yellow vein, first apical areole 

 long and narrow, acute at both ends, second hardly 

 shorter, acute at base, a little curved, together with the 

 following five, the cross-veins short, a little curved, 

 acutely diagonal, the middle ones straight, and much 

 longer, basal ends of three principal veins of posterior 

 wings pale yellow. Meso and metanotum hoary pubes- 

 cent, becoming more like fur posteriorly, the inner two 

 ends of the cruciform prominence tubercular and yellow, 

 the lateral and posterior edges of the metanotum reddish 

 yellow. Venter broadly red along the middle line, or 

 with the segments bordered with red, and the lateral 

 raised edge also slenderly red, tergum minutely pubes- 



