202 



SPIIEOID^E. 



and tliree c\ibital cells, the radial cell truncate at apex and appen- 

 diculate, the cubital cells similar in size and t'orni to those in the 



tore wing of Larra ; legs longer than 

 in that genus, with the claws of the 

 tarsi more slender and much longer ; 

 the intermediate til)i?e with one 

 apical spur ; abdomen long, the 2nd 

 J^;t ventral segment with a marked con- 

 vexity near its base ; the pygidial 

 ''^iW^ area, especially in the female, covered 

 with a dense short pubescence. 



,. , . ,'? „ , r> , Notoqonia, like Larra and the 



JSotoQonia siihtesseUata, y. f. • •/ i- .i .y n- i 



^ > -)- ^ majority ot the other allied genera, 



is predatory on various species of crickets. I have often seen 



N. subtcssellata, Smith, dragging, with immense labour and pains, 



a half-paralyzed cricket twice or three times as big as itself to its 



nest-hole. 



Key to the Sj^ecies. 



A.. Legs more or less red. 



a. Posterior femora only red ; pile on the 



head, thorax, and abdomen silvery. 



L. 11-13 mm N. suhtessellata, p. 202. 



b. Posterior femora black ; pile on the 



head, thorax, and abdomen golden, 



L. 17-20 mm N. deplanata, p. 203. 



B. Leo's entirely black. 



a. Pile on head, thorax, and legs golden .... N. dejilanata (var.). 



b. Pile on head, thorax, and abdomen [p. 203. 



silvery. 

 a'. Wings light fusco-hyaline, with no 

 tinge of j^ellow : sides of median 



segment obliquely striate N. lahoriosa, p. 204. 



V . Wings hyaline, with a decided tinge of 

 yellow. 

 a^. Sides of median segment transversely 



striate. L. 12-14 mm N. jnculatriv, p. 203. 



b'^. Sides of median segment coarsely 



reticulate. L. 8-11 mm N. tristis, p. 204, 



390. Notogonia suhtessellata, 



Larrada suhtessellata, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 277, $ , 



Notogonia suhtessellata. Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) ii, 



1889, p. 130. 

 Larrada exilipes, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 278, c? . 



2 , Head and thorax very minutely and closely punctured, 

 pruinose ; scutellum bare, shining ; median segment finely rugose 

 above, with a medial longitudinal carina not reaching the apex, 

 the sides and the face of the posterior truncation at the lateral 

 margins transversely striate and densely pruinose ; abdomen dull, 



