244 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Colowr.—Dark brown. Head and thorax a little clearer than the 
abdomen ; antenne with segments 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8 dark, the rest 
clear yellow ; fore femora pale yellowish-brown, tinged with darker 
at the base and externally; fore tibie pale yellowish-brown, except 
for a faint darker tint in the middle; mid and hind femora brown, pale 
at the ends; mid and hind tibiz paler at base and in outer half; 
all tarsi pale, with a dark brown spot at tips. Fore wing dark at 
the extreme base, then a narrow pale band, then dark again just 
before the origin of the hind vein, gradually getting paler to almost 
pee just before the tip of the wing, the extreme tip again becoming 
arker. 
Reticulation.—Distinct and hexagonal on the head in front of a 
strongly chitinised ridge about half-way between the hind margin 
of the eye and the posterior margin of the head; cells smallest 
between the ocelli, larger round the eyes, particularly on the cheeks. 
Behind the ridge the reticulation is fainter, larger, and more irregular. 
Within these reticulations, particularly near the hind margin, are a 
number of minute dark spots. On the prothorax—the anterior half 
more or less regular hexagonal; behind this the cells are slightly 
transverse, becoming hexagonal again further back towards the 
posterior margin; on each side on the posterior half are two slight 
depressions in which the reticulations are larger and more irregular. 
On the mesonotum—hexagonal in front, elongate behind, radiating 
from the middle and the sides of the posterior margin. Metascutum 
with a triangle of heavy reticulation with its base on the anterior 
margin and its apex on the hind margin; outside this the reticula- 
tions are larger and fainter. Scutellum as in the outer portion of the 
metascutum, with a heavy curved line on each side near the lateral 
margin. All femora and tibiz reticulated. The first two abdominal 
tergites reticulated right across, the median portion forming an 
indistinct inverted triangle, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, 
and eighth reticulated at the sides and also a small patch mid-dorsally, 
leaving an unreticulated patch on each side in the position along 
which the wings will lie. The ninth tergite more faintly reticulated 
right across, the tenth segment with very faint larger reticulations. 
Near the anterior margin of tergites 1-8 is an irregularly curved, 
symmetrical, heavy chitinised line, which limits the reticulation 
anteriorly in that tergite. All the sternites with longitudinally 
elongated faint reticulations and with a straight thickened fore 
margin. 
Head one and half times as broad as long. Hyes large and pro- 
truding, produced backwards on the upper surface ; distance between 
the eyes one and two-thirds the width of the eye, distance from the 
eye to the back of the head four-fifths the greatest length of the 
eye; the frons depressed on each side and raised to a ridge mid- 
dorsally and anteriorly. Ocelli fairly large, close together on a small 
raised prominence; the anterior ocellus directed straight forward. 
Two minute ocellar spines on the sides of the triangle and one 
between each of these and the margin of the eye; about six minute 
spines arranged along the transverse ridge across the hind part of 
the head. The mowth-cone over-reaching the prosternum, stout and 
rather blunt. Mazillary palps two-segmented, the segments about 
