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the front end, its sides almost straight; abdomen is black or bluish 

 black with the fourtii segment æneous, and it is a little less punctate 

 than in podagrica; there are two yellow bands, the first as in podagrica, 



Fig. 141. Antenna of N. floralis c?, from the outside. X 90. 



the second broad, generally occupying more than the basal half of 

 the segment and sloping obliquely at the sides so that it reaches to 

 or near to the sides only with the hind corners; the first band may 

 be very narrow, sometimes divided into small stripes or spots, or al- 

 most quite wanting; the second is only in rare cases narrowly divided. 

 Fourth segment almost quite pale-haired; the venter yellow on the 

 whole middle part. Legs black and yellow, anterior femora black to 

 near the apex, hind femora with the basal fourth yellow; anterior 

 tibiæ with blackish rings below the middle, hind tibiæ generally with 

 only base and apex yellow ; tarsi as in podagrica, hind metatarsi less 

 dilated; sometimes the anterior femora have only more or less nar- 

 row, black middle rings and these may even be ill defined and some- 

 what weak. Wings more or less brownish tinged, the cross-veins not 



Fig. 142. Wing of JV. floralis d". 



seamed; the upper marginal cross-vein a little curved with the lower 

 angle a little obtuse and less angular than in podagrica. 



Female. Frons and epistoma a little broader. Abdomen with 

 the second segment evenly and not much dilated backwards, the sides 

 slightly incurved or almost straight; abdomen has four larger or 

 smaller spots, the second pair lie behind the front margin of the 



