XOTOTKACIIYS, 390 



black UKile at Pooiui ; ;uul JJudgeon a (iavous and black J , with 

 testaceous 2 2 ^ i'^ the Kani^ra A^alley. 



This is knowu to be a widely distributed species throughout 

 Europe, trom Sweden to northern Africa, though rai'er further 

 north and veiy doubtfully iiritish, since the only record of which 

 I am aware is by Ingpeu in 1839 (in his " Instructions," p. 62). 

 Dr. Giraud tells us tbat Perris once bred this species from the 

 heteromerous beetle^ Hjjmenoras doublieri, Muls. 



[I here transcribe the descnptions of two species, thouglit by 

 tlieir author to be new, wliich appear to be notliing but represen- 

 tatives of the innumerable colour varieties of the above protean 

 species : — 



J\\)fofrftchusriifo-()rbifalis,Cauievon, Joiun. lloiubay Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 I'JOG, p. 276(5). 



"Black; the eye orbits narrowly below, more broadly above, 

 dark rufous ; behind extending on to the ocelli ; and on it, 

 opposite the ocelli, is a yellowish mark. The fore legs are 

 fuscous tiuged \Aith yellow ; the four hinder black, tbeir knees 

 yellow; the hind tibite are fuscous on the inner side. AVings 

 hyaline, the stigma and uervures blackish. 



" Face and clypeus shining, sparsely punctured ; the front 

 keeled down the middle, stoutly, irregularly obliquely striated ; 

 the sides sparsely punctured ; the vertex is smooth and shining. 

 Pronotum irregularly, transversely striated. Mesouotum stoutly, 

 irregularly reticulated ; the middle lobe is broadly bordered by 

 dark rufous. Scutellum transversely striated, almost reticulated ; 

 the apical half is dark rufous ; the sides are stoutly keeled, the 

 keels meeting in the middle. Metauotum stoutly reticulated ; 

 there is a smooth area, longer than wide, in the centre of the 

 base. Pro- and meso-pleurte, except the upper half of the latter 

 at the apex, closely, stoutly, longitudinally striated, the stria? 

 running into each other ; the. metapleura? stoutly longitudinally 

 striated-reticulated. The upper part of the propleuriB is broadlv 

 rufous. Abdomen smooth, bare, and shining. Length 7 millim ; 

 terebra 2 millim." 



Baluchistais- : Quetta, v. 02 (Col. Nurse). 



Type in Col. Nurse's collection. 



The type is a very small insect, differing from N. foVmtor only 

 in having the upper basal nervure slightly less curved iinmediatelv 

 above tlie median, and the median of the hind wing not at ail 

 curved above the nervellus. Probably it is no more than a small 

 local race. 



Nototraclma flavo- orbit uUs, Cameron, .Juuni. 13ombav Nat. Hist 

 Soc. 1907. p. 591 {$). 



" Head and thorax rufoiis, the face, except in the centre above, 

 the orbits broadly all round, a line on the sides of mesonolum, 

 dilated roundly, inwardly at the base, scutellum, except the basal 

 slope and more narrowly at the apex, a line on the Io\\er part of 



