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53. Echthromorpha insidiator, >'^)ii(ih. 



Fimpla insidiator, Smith,* Proc. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii, ISGl], p. 9 



o ? . A large and handsome fulvous species, with the nieso- 

 tliorax and variable abdominal bands, as well as an apical mark 

 in the front wings, black. Head so short as to be subvertical 

 behind the very prominent eyes ; flavous, with the concave and 

 distinctly bordered occiput centrally, the ocellar region, and the 

 centre of the glabrous and centrally carinate frons, alone black; 

 face superficially but distinctly punctate, quadrate and parallel- 

 sided, obsoletely pilose and somewhat nitidulous ; clypeus very 

 .large and hardly shorter than the face, basally truncate, apically 



broadly rounded, subglabrous ; 

 labruin strongly exserted, semi- 

 circular ; mandibles curved 

 above, apically blackish, with 

 the upper tooth much the 

 longer ; cheeks fully as long as 

 the basal breadth of the man- 

 dibles ; eyes somewhat deeply 

 emarginate next the scrobes. 

 Antennoi filiform, slender, and 

 as long as the body, black, 

 with the sca])e flavous through- 

 out ; flagellum rufescent at the 

 base and extreme apex, with 

 the seven basal joints elongate 

 :and apically subnodulose ; scape externally excised thi'oughout. 

 Thorax flavous, with the shallowly and irregularly punctate meso- 

 notum (except two vittae), its pleurae above and in front, and the 

 whole sternum, black ; metathorax with no arete, basally closely 

 punctate and subrufescent, its apical half and areolar region quite 

 glabrous; spiracles elongate and very large. Abdomen nearly 

 parallel-sided and flavous, with the segments, except at their 

 smooth apices, evenly punctate and brunneous or blackish ; 

 tubercles obsolete and the central segments obliquely incised at 

 their basal angles ; basal segment nitidulous and subglabrous, 

 a little longer than apically broad, constricted before the base 

 and centrally canaliculate to its middle; eighth segment discally 

 emarginate; terebra half the length of the abdomen, black, with 

 the spicula very stout and the valvulse internally setiferous. Legs 

 fulvous and somewhat stout, with the apices of the large and 

 strongly curved, though not basally lobate, tarsal claws alone 

 infuscate ; anterior coxae flavous ; hind femora centrally impressed 

 above. Wiiiri^ ample and faintly siliceous, with a conspicuous 

 apical infumate dot : radix and tegulse fulvous, costa and stigma 

 ])iceous, with the latter centrally rufescent ; areoiet obliquely 

 subtriangular, emitting the recurrent nervure from its centre; 

 radius strongl}^ sinuate, internal cubital straight; flrst recurrent 



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Fig. 22. 

 Echtln-omorpha insidiafur, Smith. 



