104 NYSSONIDZ. 
Thorax coarsely punctured ; the collar, tubercles, and a short 
line at the scutellum, of a cream colour; the metathorax longi- 
tudinally striate at its base; and the upper surface of the lateral 
spines covered with a dense aurichaleeous down; the tegule 
piceous ; wings slightly coloured, their margins more deeply so, 
and the nervures piceous ; legs red, with all the coxze, and base 
of the two anterior pairs, black. 
The abdomen punctured, the first segment red, the remainder 
black, a small ovate transverse spot on each side of the first 
segment, and a transverse line on each side of the two following, 
towards the margin, of a cream colour. 
é in the Cabinet of the British Museum. 
+47 This appears to be a very rare species; it slightly 
approaches the following in colour, but it is twice as large, 
exclusive of other differences. 
Sp. 5. pimipiatus. Jurine. 
niger, abdominis segmento primo rufo, et secundo utrinque maculd 
transversd alba signatd. 
length 2—38 lines. 
Jurine, Pl. 2, 9.22; Oliv. Ency. Méth. 8. 409.9; V.d. Lind. pt. 2. 
33. 
Black: head punctured; antennz black ; face with a silvery 
pubescence; mandibles rufescent. 
Thorax punctured, pubescent; tubercles lacteous; base of 
the metathorax longitudinally striate and enclosed in the form of 
“a semicircle by an elevated ridge; superior surface of the 
lateral spines with a silvery down; tegule piceous; wings slightly 
coloured, darker at the edge, nervures piceous ; legs black, with 
the anterior and intermediate tibize and tarsi, and the joints of 
the posterior tibiz, and apex of the joints of their tarsi, rufo- 
piceous. 
The abdomen punctured, pubescent, the margins of the seg- 
ments slightly constricted; the first segment, and base of the 
second, red (sometimes the entire segment is either entirely red 
