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Fig. 44. — Hcmipinvpla ritgosa, dc G. 



distinct sparse and fine puuctation ; spiracles small, oval and 

 directed towards the apex. Scutellum glabrous and not very 

 convex, with a lew erect dark hairs. Ahdomea fusiform- 

 cylindrical and broadest centrally, entirely dull black or some- 

 times with a cyaneous reiieclion, strongly punctate throughout, 



with the apical angles oF the 

 segments prominent ; basal 

 segment iiot longer than 

 apically broad, a little nar- 

 rowed basal ly, centrally ele- 

 vated aud laterally scabricu- 

 lous ; the live following 

 segments deeply incised trans- 

 versely at their a|)ical third, 

 the incision becoming laterally 

 confluent with another which 

 rises obliquely from the de- 

 pressed base ; anus smoother 

 and shining ; venter with the 

 four basal segments plicate ; 

 terebra black, of the same 

 lengtli as the abdomen, with 

 the valvulae slender, pilose, 

 and the spicula castaneous. 

 Le<js short and somewhat stout, red, with the hind pair 

 entirely and more or less of the intermediate coxae black ; 

 claws small and strongly lobate ; front femora and tibia? simple, 

 their calcaria curved. Whujs not broad, strongly infumate 

 throughout ; radix and tegulse red ; stigma black and costa con- 

 colorous, becoming rufescent at its base ; areolet somewhat oblique 

 and emitting the recurrent nervure from near its apex ; lo\\"er 

 wing with the tirst recurrent subopposite and emitting the ner- 

 vellus distinctly below its centre. 

 Length 17-18 millim. 



The 6 is described as differing but slightly from the 5 in 

 having the vertex somewhat brunneous, the antenmc of forty-two 

 joints, the abdomen with no bluish reflection and the front legs 

 subflavescent. 



Length IG millim. 



" E.vsx IxniES " {teste Brullt'). Bokneo. 



At first I had supposed the only $ I had seen of this species 

 to be no more than a melanic variety of the following, but in a 

 long series of the latter the nervellus is (piite uniform in its 

 direction, and in the present species it is (>xaetly as in //, (cstacca, 

 from which the black body and hind legs, more shining and deeply 

 incised abdomen, together with the entirely violaceo-infumate 

 wings, will instantly distingnish it. Tosquinet compares it Mith 

 JHmpla cogiiata, Toscp, and says its size is larger, the conformati<in 

 stouter, the colour different, the terebra double as long aud the 



