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7. EUMKCOPUS Y-NIGRUM, 11. sp. 



Elliptical, ochraceuus, above (excluding head) and on the pleurae 

 and epipleuiae rather densely but irregularly punctured with brown, 

 the punctures placed in a network of dark ferruginous tortuous 

 lines, three small basal spots to scutellum, the apical half of its 

 postfrenal part, and a spot behind middle of corium impunctate or 

 almost so, head above with four longitudinal brown or dark ferru- 

 ginous bands, the inner ones of which are in their apical half 

 {rarely throughout) longitudinally divided by ochraceous, and be- 

 neath on each side with three similar bands, the outermost being in 

 its basal half (between eyes and base of antennae) broader and 

 partly visible from above, scutellum with a large black Y-shaped 

 marking reaching the middle of the postfrenal part where it occupies 

 the whole breadth of the scutellum, the anterior branches of this 

 figure exteriorly not quite reaching the lateral margins, anteriorly 

 reaching the basal fourth of the scutellum, connexival segments with 

 a transverse brown spot at base and apex, their apical angles 

 ochraceous tipped with brown or entirely brown, membrane 

 brownish, basal and outer liorders black, the veins whitish grey, 

 evaporative area of metapleurae greyish brown, abdomen beneath 

 on each side with a broad purplish brown or dark fuscous band 

 outwardly reaching a little beyond the spiracles and emitting a 

 transverse fascia to the lateral margin along the basal and apical 

 margins of the segments, the disk between the longitudinal bands 

 sparingly punctured Avith brown and on the sixth segment usually 

 with a brown median vitta, basal half of male genital segment dark 

 brown or black, lobes of female genital segment more or less spotted 

 with fuscous; antennae fuscous or blackish, the two first joints 

 reddish brown, all or at least the last three joints at base and 

 second joint at apex yellowish testaceous, rostrum and legs 

 ochraceous, last joint of the former piceous, some streaks and spots 

 to femora, more than apical half of tibiae and their whole upper 

 lateral keels purplish brown, apex of last tarsal joint reddish. 

 Head almost as long as the pronotum in the middle and as broad as 

 long, the ochraceous parts impunctate, the dark vittae finely punc- 

 tured, antennae five-jointed, first joint two-thirds the length of 

 head and passing apex of head by more than its half, second sub- 

 equal in length to first, somewhat nodo.sely dilated at base, third 

 not quite twice the length of second and well separated from it Ijy 

 a distinct articulation, fourth slightly shorter than third, fifth a 

 little longer than second, rostrum somewhat passing middle of 



