ORTALIDiE — NOTOGRAMMA. 149 



TTlidia stigma Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. II, p. 5G5, 1. 

 Notogramma cimiciformis Loew, Berl. Eutom. Zeitsckr. XI, p. 289, Tab. 

 II, fig. 3. 



Head rather disciform. Front reddish-brown, scrobicuiate, 

 remarkably hairy; the rather conspicuous stripes, descending 

 from the vertex along the orbits of the eyes, and the elongated 

 ocellar triangle are steel-bluish, shining; the ocelli are placed 

 near the edge of the vertex, and are approximated to each other. 

 The first two antennal joints brownish-black; the elongated third 

 joint brownish-brickred, brown towards the tip. Face and 

 clypeus metallic blackish-green, but little tinged with blue. The 

 dorsum of the thorax has numerous black longitudinal stripes, 

 which are separated by finer lines, having a metallic, light-green 

 reflection and traced as if with a trembling hand. Pleurae 

 metallic blackish-steelblue, strongly tinged with greenish ; above 

 the fore coxa? with a large spot, covered with white pollen; 

 from this place to the suture which runs down from the root of 

 the wings, the pleurae are covered with deep-black, punctiform 

 dots, upon which single hairs are inserted. Scutellum rather 

 large, flat, sharp-edged, metallic greenish-black, but rather dusky. 

 Abdomen shining, blackish-steelblue; the first segment of the flat- 

 tened ovipositor is of the same color, and attenuated towards its 

 end. Feet black ; tarsi brick-red, the foremost ones from the tip 

 of the first joint, the four posterior ones from the tip of the second 

 joint, brownish-black; the hind tibia? somewhat compressed. 

 Halteres dirty-yellow. Wings comparatively short, rather hya- 

 line, with conspicuous, black veins ; the costal and marginal cells 

 have an altogether black coloring, which forms a border along the 

 apex of the wing, extending from the tip of the marginal cell 

 across that of the submarginal and of the first posterior cells; it 

 becomes less intense here; in the submarginal cell, above the 

 small erossvein, there is a black dot and farther towards the apex 

 a small, triangular black spot ; between the two again a black lon- 

 gitudinal line, which extends as far as the triangular spot; the 

 picture in the first posterior cell is a similar one, only the first 

 black dot is wanting and the two other black spots arc somewhat 

 more approximated to the apex of the wing; in the discal cell 

 there are also two Mack spots, the smaller one before, the larger 

 one beyond its middle ; the second posterior cell is marked in the 



