8-4 1 September, 



Head carmine-red. Croicn -with a narrow yellow central line not reacliing to the 

 base, near to which latter is a shallow fovea on each side having a minute black 

 spot in the middle ; on either side of the anterior margin is a short, somewhat 

 comma-shaped, yellow streak, or frequently only a spot ; frons carmine-red with 

 a more or less decided yellow, cruciform character in the middle. Face more 

 or less dark brown, with a yellow, longitudinal, central line joined to that on the 

 frons, and gradually widening until it reaches the apex ; on each side about six 

 transverse, narrow, yellow lines, the two upper ones generally joined exteriorly. 

 Clypeus jeWovr. Cheeks yellow. AntenncB : 1st joint yellow, 2nd brownish, 

 apex narrowly yellow ; seta brown. 



Thorax — -pronoium broad, with a reddish tinge, anterior margin and a narrow longi- 

 tudinal line, yellow ; on each side of the latter in front a short black streak, and 

 behind each eye a small black spot. Scutellum yellow, basal angles more or less 

 red ; transverse channel and a short line at each extremity forming a '—'-shaped 

 chai'acter, blackish. 'Elytra whitish or yellowish-white with a reddish tinge. 

 Clavus : nerves red ; apex of the area enclosed by the axillary and anal nerves, 

 and a streak in the middle, brown ; apex and an oblong spot nearly in the centre 

 of the area brown. Corium : nerves red ; ante-apical area next the claval suture 

 brown ; apex of the exterior nerve of the adjoining ante-apical area on each 

 side more or less broadly margined with brown, uj^per transverse nerve and an 

 oblong spot above the middle of the area, brown ; nerves of the apical areas 

 dark brown, areas more or less fuscous. Sternum black, exterior margin of the 

 segments broadly, posterior margin narrowly, yellow. Legs pale yellow. 

 Thiglis : all the pairs with a very short black streak, or one or two minute spots 

 on the inside at the apex. Tibia : all the pairs narrowly brown down the 

 interior margin, or sometimes the 1st and 2nd only spotted ; 3rd pair : spines 

 pale brown set in dark brown punctures. 



Abdomen : above black ; posterior margin of the segments naiTowly yellow ; side 



margins narrowly rosy. 

 $ . All the characters as in the other sex, except that the nerves of the elytra are of 

 a brighter red, and give to the insect a much more rosy appearance. 



Length, IJ line. 

 Habitat : Corsica. 



PULEPSIUS FILIGEANUS. 



White. Eh/tra : nerves very pale browuish-yellow, miuiitcly and 

 irregularly spotted witli dark brown ; disc \\\i\\ very tine transverse 

 reticulations. 



Head — -croivn yellowish-white with a somewliat indistinct pale central line, and a 

 small black spot in front on each side of the apex. Face very faintly brownish 

 with a narrow, longitudinal, central line, and several transverse ones, yellowish. 

 Eyes somewhat reddish. AnlenncB pale yellowish ; setce, towards the apex, 

 brown. 



Thorax — pronoium very faintly brownish, round the anterior margin pale yellowish ; 



disc irroratcd with white, and with a central longitudinal line of the s^ame colour. 



. .S'r«//'//««( yellowish-white, with a darker Iriangidnr jml oh at each ba^al angle. 



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