342 CATALOGUE OF 



86. Strachia hamata. 



Paltide lulea, nilens, asprre punctata; caput slrigis duabus antlcis 

 fasciaque pnstica cyaneis; antenncB niyrcE, graciles, corporis dimidio 

 non longiores, articulo lo pallide (iileo, 2o piceo subtus pallide luleo, 

 4.0 basi pallide luleo ; thorax maculis duabus cyaneis transversis sub- 

 quadratis ; sculellum purpureo-cyaneum ; pectus purpureo-cyaneo 

 octoguitatum ; venter e maculis pnrpureo-cyaneis quadrivittalus ; 

 femora cyuneo unimaculata ; tibice supra cyanece ; alec anticce pur- 

 pureo-cyanecE, iitura riifa karnala. Var. j8. — Ala anticce vitla 

 cruciata pallide lutea. 



Pale luteous, elliptical, shining, roughly punctured. Head with an 

 irregular blue band on the hind border and with a little blue streak on each 

 of the lateral lobes; sides hardly reflexed : lobes of equal length ; middle 

 lobe mostly smooth. Eyes prominent. Rostrum extending a little beyond 

 the hind coxie. Antennaj black, slender, about half the length of the 

 body; first joint pale luteous, not extending to the front of the head; 

 second piceous, pale luteous beneath, much shorter than the third; fourth 

 pale luteous at the base, a little longer than the third and than the fifth. 

 Thorax with a transverse blue subquadrate spot on each side of the disk ; 

 sides slightly reflexed ; hind angles rounded. Scutellum purplish blue, 

 extending to the angle of the corium. Pectus with four bluish purple spots 

 on each side. Abdomen beneath with four rows of bluish purple spots. 

 Legs stout; femora with a blue spot beyond the middle; tibiae blue and 

 furrowed above. Fore wings purplish blue, with a broad red reflexed 

 streak in the disk; membrane black. Far. /3. — Scutellum with a cruciform 

 pale luteous stripe. Length of the body 7 lines. 



a, b. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



87. SXKACHIA.SATURATA. 



Fulva, lata, aspere punctata ; caput apud marginem posticum viridi-nigrum, 

 lateribus vix rejlexis ; antenna; nigrce, graciles, corporis dimidio 

 non longiores, articulo lofulvo, '2o apice fulvo, 3o fulvo apice nigra, 

 4.0 basi fulvo ; thorax maculis duabus lateralibus maximis viridi- 

 nigris, spatio postico rufescente ; scutellum basi vittisque duabus 

 lanceolatis viridi-nigris ; pectus subcarinalum ; abdomen dorso nigra, 

 fasciis quatuor ventralibus late interruptis macuiisque duabus sub- 

 apicalibus viridi-nigris ; alee anticm margine postico vittaque sub- 

 costali viridi-nigris, membrana iiigricante. 



Tawny, broad, elliptical, roughly punctured. Head irregularly greenish 

 black along the hind border; sides very slightly reflexed ; lobes of equal 

 length. Rostrum extending to the hind coxob. Antennae black, slender, 

 about half the length of the body ; fir>st joint tawny, not extending to the 

 front of the head; second very much longer than the third, tawny 

 towards the tip; third tawny, black towards the tip; fourth much 

 longer than the third, tawny at the base; fifth a little shorter than the 

 fourth. Thorax with two very large greenish black spots, which are 

 nearly contiguous; a large anterior callus on each side; sides slightly 

 reflexed; space along the hind border reddish. Scutellum greenish hVdck 

 at the base, with two lanceolate greenish black strij>es which extend to 



