:!:'>•_! KXTOMOI.OfilSClIK BERICHTEN. 



somewhat small, its sides obviously convergent above, receiving 

 the recurrent nervure in its centre; radial cell short; nervus 

 disco-cubitalis broken by a minute stum]); stigma narrow; 

 lower external angle of diseoidal cell obtuse, In hind wing- 

 median curved at its base ; nervellus postfurcal and intercepted 

 slightly below its centre. 



Legs normal. 



Abdomen fusiform, not linear, coriaceous; the basal segment 

 with sub-prominent tubercles, slightly explanate apically, its 

 postpetiole longer than broad. 



Length 9 mm. 



Head and mandibles black, palpi blackish ; antennae black, 

 centrally white-banded. Thorax black, only pronotum white- 

 margined in front and scutellum white at apex: tegulae black. 

 Wings somewhat clouded; their radix white ; pterostigma black, 

 with a short white line basally. First, sixth and seventh 

 abdominal segment black, second, third, fourth and fifth red ; 

 anus immaculate. Legs black, anterior tibiae and tarsi fuscous. 

 hin -1 tibiae t o tall y black; joints two, three and four of 

 hind tarsi white; calcaria black. 



The above description is made from a single S which 1 

 captured by sweeping shrubs at Ariana, near Tunis, in April 

 1911. The type is in my collection. 



r y p t u s subspinosus nov. spec. 



d*. This species closely resembles Cryptus spinosus Srv,, 

 however, its short metathoracic spines will at once distin- 

 guish it. 



Head black, with internal and partly external orbits nar- 

 rowly white; antennae totally black; scutellum white at apex; 

 hind tarsi with joints two, three and four white. 



Metathorax with more or less distinct hexagonal area supe- 



