276 [^^^y- 



Head — black ; Face, side lobes reddish, Antennce pitchy brown, 

 sparingly clothed Avith longish, very fine, pale yellowish hairs. 

 nostrum piceous. 



Thorax — Pronotum black, rugose, thickly and very deeply punctate, 

 the depressed portion alone smooth and somewhat convex. Scu- 

 tellum black, wrinkled transversely, depressed in the centre at the 

 transverse channel. Elytra somewhat diaphanous ; Clavtis pitchy 

 black, finely wrinkled transversely ; Corium pitchy- yellow, the 

 anterior margin, 1st nerve, and a narrow space adjoining the clavus 

 pitchy-browu ; Cuneus pitchy or reddish brown ; anterior margin 

 at the base rounded, and leaving a small but distinct notch ; 

 Membrane pitchy-brown, finely but irregularly wrinkled longi- 

 tudinally, clothed with very fine short hairs ; cell-nerves black. 

 Legs— thighs and tihice red, the latter narrowly brownish at the 

 apex ; tarsi brown ; claws reddish. 



Abdomen pitchy-black, clothed with fine, pale yellowish hairs. 



Length 2—2^ lines. 



5 Black, shining, clothed with fiue, erect, yellowish hairs. Legs 

 very pale reddish yellow. 



Head — reddish ; Crown with a slightly curved blackish line on each 

 side of the centre extending to the inside of the antenniferous 

 processes ; Face, central lobe black. Antennce, 1st joint reddish 

 or brownish yellow, base and apex narrowly blackish ; 2nd, 3rd, 

 and 4th pitchy-black. 



Thorax — Pronotum rugose, the punctures deeper than in the ^ . Scu- 

 tellum wrinkled transversely, with a faint central keel extending 

 from the apex to the transverse channel, disk depressed on either 

 side next the latter. Elytra undeveloped, without cuneus or mem- 

 brane ; Clavus and Corium rugose, anterior margin of the latter 

 thickened, apex rounded. Legs — thighs very pale reddish-yellow ; 

 tibiae pale yellow, clothed with somewhat erect, fine, yellowish 

 hairs ; tarsi and claws pitchy -brown. 



Abdomen entirely black, clothed with pale yellowish hairs ; Connexivum 

 broad, perpendicular, and somewhat reflexed inwardly. 



Length If line. 



Pour specimens of this insect were taken in July last bji Mr. D. 

 Sharp, on the hills between Loch Long and Loch Lomond, at a height 

 of about 1500 feet. 



(To he continued.) 



