LISSOPIMPLA. 



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Fig. 24. 

 Lis<opiinj)/a alhovicta, 'Walk. 



7iarro\A" vertex, aud the centre of the coxicave irons, black ; scrobes 

 glabrous and large ; face distinctly though not deeply punctate- 

 throughout, longitudinally tricariiiate ; clypeus less than half the 

 length of the face, broadly rounded at the base and apex, a little 

 shorter than the exserted and conical labrum ; mandibles with the 

 teeth minute and blackish, their base not broader than the length 



of the cheeks ; eyes someA^hat deeply 

 emarginate next the scrobes. An- 

 tennte setaceous and very slender, 

 black, with the scape, and in S 

 iiagellum, red beneath ; eighth to the 

 twelfth flagellar joints of $ pure 

 white ; joints not nodulose. Tlioraar 

 black, \\ith the ^hole sternum, 

 large spots on the meso- and meta- 

 pleurae, elongate callosities before and 

 beneath the radix, a transverse line 

 below the hind wings, basal carinas 

 of the scutellum and postscutellum, 

 and the three metathoracic spines, 

 pale stramineous ; notauli deeply im- 

 pressed and extending to the disc ; 

 metanotum trans-strigose through- 

 out, apophyses large and obtuse in 

 5 and subobsolete in c? ; petiolar area subglabrous and basally 

 produced into a large and stout spine ; lateral costa distinct^ 

 spiracles elongate and ver}' large. Scutellvm of S white. 

 Abdomen nitidulous and entirely glabrous, stramineous, with the 

 base of all the segments broadly black ; the first distinctly louger 

 than apically broad, with the deplanate basal carinae pale and not 

 extending beyond the centre ; the folloAving segments obliquely 

 incised at their basal angles ; anus and the strongly plicate venter 

 pale ; terebra exactly half the length of the abdomen, spicula red 

 and the hai'dly pilose valvular black. Le(/s entirely ochreous, with 

 the (S hind tarsi alone infuscate ; claws large, curved but not 

 lobate ; liind femora distinctly dentate below at tlieir apical third; 

 front tibiae subintumescent. Wiiu/s normal and hyaline ; radix 

 and teguhe flavous, costa piceous, and the stigma ferruginous ; 

 areolet subsessile, obliquely triangular and emitting the recurrent 

 uervure beyond its centre ; radius strongly curved above the 

 areolet ; first recurrent of lower wings postf ureal and emitting 

 the ner\ ellus from its junction with the median nervure. 

 Length 8-14 millim. 



I liad drawn up the above description before seeing the type 

 of Walker's species in the British Museum ; it is undoubtedly 

 synonymous with L. rtijijies, Cam., and was originally described 

 as : — Shining and black, with the unoerside red. H^ad white,. 

 with a flavous anterior stripe, eyes internally emarginate next 

 the scrobes , palpi white. Antenna) elongate and slender, black, 

 with white band before their centre; scape red. Thorax with 



