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Records of the S.A. Museum 



ANISOPS DORIS Kirkaldy. 



Anisops doris Kirk., Wien. ent. Zeit., xxiii, 1904, p. 112. 



S Head, including eyes, nearly as wide, or slightly wider than, the pro- 

 notiini; notocephalon white to yellow or testaceous, witli a median groove, on 



Fig. 364. Anisops doris. 



each side of which is a narrow swelling, not reaching to base of head; vertex 2-3 

 to 3-5 in an eye, 3 to 6 times as wide as the narrow synthlipsis; eyes large and 

 prominent, almost touching at base of head. Pronotum pale, smokj- or yellow, 

 sometimes darkened posteriorly; about twice as wide as long; superficially punc- 

 tured ; sides parallel or not very divergent. Scutellum pale yellow, bright orange 

 or scarlet, usually with a more or less diffused, large, triangular, black spot on 

 each side; about as wide as long, 1-5 times the length of the pronotum. Meta- 

 notum and upper side of abdomen yellowish, black, or testaceous marked with 

 black. Underside black, with carina and lateral edges testaceous. Anterior 

 tibiae 1-4 times the tarsi, which are 2 to 3 times as long as the longest claw. 

 Length, 4-5 mm. to 8 mm.; width, 11 mm. to 2 mm. ("8i mm.-9 mm." Kirk.). 



9 Form more robust, eyes not so large and always distinctly separated at 

 base of head, and pronotum slightly wider, with the sides more divergent, than in 

 male. Vertex twice, or more than twice, as wide as synthlipsis, which is 5 to 6 

 tiives in an eye. Length of second joint of anterior tarsus more than 1-5 times 

 that of first. Length, 5 mm. to 9 mm.; width, 1 28 mm. to 2-2 mm. ("8 mm.- 

 94 mm.," Kirk.). 



