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XXVII. 



A NEW SPECIES OF ALLANTUS (A. brevlventris, sp.n. ) 

 FROM SALOXICA. 



BY P. CAMERON. 



[Read -iOth December, 1885.] 



ALLANTUS BREVLVENTRIS, sp.n. 



Black ; the scape, labrum, clypeus, tegulae, a short 

 narrow line on the pronotum, the legs, and segments 

 3-5 of the abdomen (except a mark on each on the 

 ventral surface), fulvous, the mouth and tibiae 

 almost yellow. The four anterior femora bear a 

 black line behind, the apical half of the tibiae and 

 the tarsi being also black behind ; the aj^ex of the 

 middle tibiae, and the tarsi, from the apex of the 

 basal joint, the apex of the hind tibiae, and the tarsi 

 from the apex of the basal joint all round, black. 

 Wings smoky, the stigma fulvous above, fuscous on 

 lower side. The second cubital cellule is, on the 

 upper side, longer than the third on the upper side, 

 but, on the lower side, is a little shorter than the 

 lower side of the third. The first recurrent nervure 

 is received a little in front of the middle of the cellule, 

 the second in the basal third of the third cellule; 

 the transverse basal nervure before the middle of 

 the cellule. The body is short and broad, the abdo- 

 men being not much longer than the head and 

 thorax together. Antennae not much longer than 

 the thorax, moderately stout, covered with micro- 

 scopic pile; the third joint is more than double the 

 length of the fourth. Head as broad as the meso- 

 thorax, retreating slightly behind the eyes, which con- 

 verge in front towards the antennae. Clypeus broadly, 

 roundly, and deeply incised. The frontal area ex- 

 tends from behind the front ocellus to near the 



