110 NYSSONIDA. 
above; and the post-dorsolum has on each side an incurved 
black squama; wings slightly coloured, the nervures piceous ; 
the centre of the metathorax has a triangular enclosure which 
is smooth, its sides rugose; the legs black, with the inside of 
the anterior pair fulvous; all the tarsi piceous, with their extreme 
joint red; the anterior tarsi ciliated, and the intermediate and 
posterior tibize strongly spinose. 
The abdomen delicately punctured, slightly pubescent, with a 
transverse ovate spot on each side of the first segment towards 
the margin, and a transverse line on each side of the second, 
yellow 9. 
I am unacquainted with the ¢. 
¢ in the British Museum. 
++ This is unique in the collection of the British 
Museum. I cannot learn where it was taken; it is an old 
specimen. 
Sp. 4. BELLIcosus. Oliv. 
niger, flavo-maculatus, mucrone canaliculato, ad apicem dilatato 
et emarginato 9. 
length 44 lines. 
Oliv. Ency. Méth. 8. 595. 9. 
Black: head punctured; antennze with the margins of the 
joints rufo-piceous ; mandibles testaceous at their base. 
Thorax punctured, subpubescent ; the scutellum semicircular, 
with the margins slightly reflexed and having a central longi- 
tudinal carina; the mucro at the base of the metathorax curved, 
grooved above, with the apex dilated and slightly emarginate ; the 
collar, tubercles, and the bifid squama at the posterior margin of 
the scutellum, yellow, the latter however more deeply coloured 
on its edge; the tegule testaceous; the wings slightly coloured, 
with the nervures piceous; legs rufo-testaceous, with the coxz 
-and trochanters black, variegated with yellow; the femorz, the 
anterior entirely within, and the remainder with an internal 
line, and the base of all the tibize, yellow; the pulvilli black. 
