﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4. 
  47 
  

  

  the 
  propleurae 
  finely 
  longitudinally 
  striated 
  ; 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   pleuras 
  with 
  scattered 
  punctures 
  and 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  metapleurse 
  finely 
  and 
  closely 
  

   longitudinally 
  striated. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  

   white 
  hairs, 
  the 
  four 
  hinder 
  trochanters 
  and 
  femora 
  bright 
  

   rufous 
  ; 
  the 
  fore 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae 
  underneath 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  dull 
  rufous. 
  Wings 
  hyaline, 
  slightly 
  suffused 
  with 
  

   fuscous. 
  Abdomen 
  shining, 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  segment 
  

   with 
  a 
  transverse 
  row 
  of 
  punctures 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  

   last 
  segment 
  shining, 
  dull 
  piceous. 
  

  

  The 
  three 
  species 
  here 
  described 
  with 
  red 
  on 
  the 
  legs 
  

   may 
  be 
  separated 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1 
  (4) 
  Femora 
  red, 
  wings 
  smoky. 
  

  

  2 
  (3) 
  Clypeus 
  incised, 
  projecting. 
  Magrettii 
  

  

  3 
  (2) 
  ,, 
  transverse, 
  not 
  projecting. 
  cassiope 
  

  

  4 
  (1) 
  Femora 
  black; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  

  

  rufous. 
  tarsata 
  

  

  ^ 
  TiPHIA 
  CLYPEALIS, 
  s/). 
  IIOV. 
  

  

  Nigra, 
  clypeo, 
  tibiis 
  anticis, 
  tarsisqiie 
  anteriorihiis, 
  rnfis 
  ; 
  

   alis 
  hyalinis, 
  nervis 
  fuscis. 
  2. 
  Long. 
  7 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Mussouri 
  (Rothney). 
  

  

  Head 
  shining, 
  punctured 
  ; 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  silvery 
  

   hairs, 
  which 
  are 
  densest 
  below 
  the 
  antennae 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  

   rufous 
  ; 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth, 
  impunctate, 
  and 
  

   slightly 
  curved 
  ; 
  mandibles 
  broadly 
  rufous 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  

   Antennae 
  ferruginous 
  beneath 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  last 
  

   joint 
  entirely 
  so. 
  Pronotum 
  shining, 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  

   mesonotum 
  with 
  the 
  punctures 
  more 
  widel}' 
  separated 
  ; 
  

   the 
  sides 
  being 
  free 
  from 
  them, 
  and 
  being 
  there 
  too 
  more 
  

   widely 
  separated 
  than 
  they 
  are 
  on 
  the 
  sides; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  

   with 
  large, 
  widely 
  separated 
  punctures 
  all 
  over. 
  Median 
  

   segment 
  coarsely 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  sides 
  much 
  more 
  

   finely 
  aciculated. 
  Propleurae 
  finely 
  obliquely 
  striated 
  

   throughout. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  

  

  