STTZUS. 



281 



oF the antentife : thorax covered with erect soft hairs ; median 

 segment short posteriorly, concavo-truucate, the truncation trans- 

 versely striate ; abdomen lightly punctured ; plate of 2nd ventral 

 segment simple ; pygidial area coarsely punctured ; the apex \\ith 

 a few stiif hairs. Yellow, variegated with pale brownish red ; the 

 flagellum of the antennae, an obscure mark on the vertex of the 

 head, three broad parallel longitudinal stripes on the mesonotura, 

 the postscutellum, middle and apex of the median segment, basal 

 and apical margins above of the lst-5th segments, and the whole 

 of the 6th segment of the abdomen pale brownish red ; wings tiavo- 

 hyahne, nervures and tegulae brown. 

 " Hah. Barrackpore, Bengal. $ . Length 24 ; exy. 45 mm. 

 (5 unknown. 



511. Stizus re versus. 



Larra reversa, Smith, Cat. iv, p. 349, $ S - 



Stizus reversus, Cam. Mem. 3Ianch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iii, 1890, 

 p. 245; Handl. Sitzun(/sb. J had. Wiss. Wien, ci, 1892, p. 50. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, shining, co\ ered with 

 a very short thin pubescence ; in certain lights the surface is seen 

 to be covered with obscure, very fine, shallow, close punctures ; a 

 large space round the ocelli and on the front coarsely punctured ; 

 mesonotum anteriorly with two medial abbreviated parallel longi- 

 tudinally impressed lines, very smooth and shining; median 

 segment widely and deeply emargiuate posteriorly, tlie lateral 

 posterior margins compressed ; abdomen as long as the head and 

 thorax united. Black ; the clypeus, a spot above it, the scape and 

 basal joint of the antennae in front, the posterior margin of the 

 pronotum, the tubercles, a spot on the tegula), a short line iu 

 front and a spot behind them, a spot on each lateral angle of the 

 scutellum, a line on the postscutellum, the posterior lateral angles 

 of the median segment, an interrupted yellow band on the basal 

 segment of the abdomen, an entire one on the 2nd segment, 

 widest laterally, a short transverse line in the middle of the 3rd, a 

 narrow band on the 4th, and a spot on each side of the 5th 

 segment yellow ; legs variegated with, sometimes almost entirely, 

 yellow ; wings hyaline and iridescent, nervures dark testaceous. 



c? very similar, but a black spot always at the base of the 

 labrum and another on the clypeus. 



Var, The posterior margins of abdominal segments 1-5 with 

 complete yellow transverse bands above. 



Huh. Mussooree; Barrackpore; 8ikhim ; Central India; Bombay; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim ; Sumatra. § cJ • Length 9-10 ; eivp. 17-21. 



512. Stizus lateralis, Cam. MS. 



$ . Very similar to some varieties of 5. reversus, diiforing 

 chiefly in the greater development of the yellow markings ; the 

 clypeus, the space above it, the underside of the scape and 

 Hagellum of the antennce, a broad stripe on the posterior margin 



