804 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIE?TY OP GLASGOW. 



3-6 subequal; the seventh larger. Abdomen narrower 

 than the thorax, bulging out considerably in the 

 middle. The keel in the metanotum is cleft before 

 the middle. In the wings the radial cellule is closed. 



Length, 4^ mm. 



The long third joint of the antennae is very- 

 characteristic. 



Mugdock Wood. 



Belyta mullensis, sp. nov. 



Black ; legs blackish, fuscous ; apex of coxae, trochanters, base 

 and apex of femora largely, base of tibiae and tarsi, piceous- 

 red; wings fuscous; radial cellule closed. 



Antennae as long as the body; the basal joint 

 longer than the second and third together; the third 

 a very little longer than fourth ; last more than one- 

 half longer than the thirteenth. Pronotum well 

 developed, finely j)unctured, depressed in the centre. 

 Scutellar fovea large, shallow, wider than long. 

 Scutellum raised. Metanotum finely aciculated, the 

 keel cleft a little past the middle; at the apex is a 

 well-marked transverse bordering carina; the apex 

 at the side is produced into a short single blunt 

 tooth. Petiole longer than the hinder coxae, with 

 four not very clearly defined keels ; the rest finely 

 punctured. The base of second segment is slightly 

 striolated ; a long suture is in the centre. Segments 

 3-5 subequal, shorter than the sixth and seventh ; 

 the eighth longer than the seventh. The abdomen 

 is rather longer than the thorax ; the petiole on the 

 under side is covered with long sparse white hair; 

 the apex and sides of abdomen covered more closely 

 with a shorter hair ; the thorax with fuscous hair. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Mull. 



