Mr. Babingtou on Dromhis. 85 



Head black ; thorax quadrate, rufo-ferrugiaous, with the margins 

 paler ; elytra pale yellow, with the humeral angles prominent 

 and nearly rectangular, at a little behind the middle a broad 

 transverse brown fascia, dilated posteriorly on the outer mar- 

 gin, and connected at the suture with a triangular spot of the 

 same colour at the base, the exterior angles of which are a little 

 produced along the outer margins, so as to form an elongated 

 patch on each side of the elytra ; apex of the suture pale ; ab- 

 domen piceous beneath, the thorax paler ; legs and antenna 

 I^ale. 



Taken at Cambridge by the Rev. A. W. Griesbach, J, A. Power, 

 Esq., and myself; "in Lord Spencer's Park at Wimbledon, not at 

 Dorking," by G. Waterhouse, Esq.; and at " Colney Hatch" by 

 W. E. Shuckard, Esq. 



S. D. sigma. Dej. 



" Pallidus ; capite nigro ; thorace quadrato rufo ; elytris substri- 



atis," angulis humeralibus prominentibus, " stitura fasciaque 



postica dentata fuscis ;" subtus pallidus. 

 " Long. 14, lat. -I lin." Dejean. 

 D. sigma. Dej. Spec. Col. i. 235.; Iconogr. t.W.f.Q. Fisch. 



Entom. Ross. iii. 87. Steph. III. (M.) i. 176.; not of Curtis's 



Guide or Brit. Ent., nor of Steph. Norn. ed. 1., but Steph. Nom. 



ed. 2. col. i. Aud. et Brulle, Hist. Ins. iv. 190. 

 Car. sigma. Russi, Faun. Etrus. i. 266. no. 564.? Schon, Syn. 



Ins. i. 226.? 

 Leb. fasciata. Du/t. ii. 255.? 



Head hleick; mouth, palpi,SLndantennceY)Qle yellow, Mora^ reddish, 

 quadrate, a little contracted behind ; elytra pale yellow testa- 

 ceous, having the suture dark, brown, that colour not extend- 

 ing to the base or apex, and a little behind the middle a broad 

 transverse dark brown band, slightly dilated on the suture, den- 

 tated in the middle of each elytron anteriorly, and dilated pos- 

 teriorly on the outer margins, along which last it sometimes 

 extends almost to the extremity of the suture, when the pos- 

 terior part of the elytra appears to form a rounded pale patch 

 on a dark ground ; underside of the body and legs pale yellow 

 testaceous. 



The above description is abridged from that given by Dejean, as I 

 have not been able to obtain sight of a specimen. 



The descriptions given by Rossi and Duftschmid are such as to 

 agree with this species or bipenni/er ; that of Rossi will also include 



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