SOME STEPHANID^ : WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. lOT 



Ethiopian Continent, from which nearly all those I have seen 

 were traceable to cognate kinds. The insects are commonest 

 in the Tropics, though extending thence to Victoria in the south 

 and about 45° latitude in the north, since they are known from 

 both Germany and Ontario. None occur in Britain. 



Stephanus riihripes, sp. nov. 



(? 9 . Head with face strongly trans-rugose ; arcuately on ver- 

 tex ; temples smooth ; posterior margin of head bordered ; cheeks 

 shorter than scape. Second and third flagellar joints of equal length 

 and rather shorter than first. Neck of prothorax short, centrally 

 longitudinally impressed, with one strong basal carina ; semiannular 

 part widely aciculate with the extreme base smooth ; mesonotum 

 coarsely punctate with central shoot space ; mesosternum flat and 

 polished. Scutellum smooth, impunctate. Mesopleuige smooth with 

 three or four irregular rows of punctures ; metapleurse closely rugu- 

 lose throughout, separated from median segment by a smooth sulcus 

 and a carina ; median segment with rather dense and large shallow 

 punctures. Abdomen 13 mm. in length, with petiole 6 mm. and 

 transaciculate, slightly shorter than the remaining segments 

 together ; base of second segment feebly rugose, remainder smooth 

 and shining ; terebra as long as body, sheaths broadly white-banded 

 before apex. Hind legs with coxae slender and strongly trans-striate ; 

 femora smooth and shining, bidentate ; tibiae longer than femora and 

 constricted in basal third, five-jointed in $ , three-jointed in (^ ; all 

 the tibiffi and hind femora elongately pilose. Wings brown, centrally 

 darker. — Black : mouth parts and genal orbits testaceous ; anterior 

 legs except coxae and trochanters bright red, hind femora and tarsi 

 except apically and apical two-thirds of tibiae red. 



Length, (^ $ 22 mm. 



Two pairs, including the typical female, were captured by 

 C.M.Woodford, Esq., in the Solomon Islands about 1886; a 

 female (labelled by Cameron with the MS. name " Megischus 

 Frogattii, type. Cam.") and two males were also there taken 

 during July-August, 1009, by W. W. Froggatt. These are in 

 the British Museum. 



Diastepkamis Salomonis, Westw. 



Stephanus Salmonis, Westw., ' Thesaur. Entom.,' Oxon., 

 1874, p. 128. 



" Niger ; capite utrinque linea alba pone oculos, coUo postice 

 transverso striato, metancto areolato, coxis posticis transverse- 

 striatis, dimidio apicali femorum posticorum et basali tibiarum 

 castaneo, tibiis anticis parum dilatatis basi rufis ; tibiis tarsisque 

 intermediis castaneis; alls parum flavescentibus, venis omnibus 

 mediis discoidalibus obliteratis ; abdomine in individuo unico per- 

 dito. 



"Expaus. alarum antic, 1 in., IQJ, in." — Westwood, loc. cit. 



