L123 NYSSONIDE. 
+44 Taken near Liverpool, on the opposite shores of the 
Mersey, by Mr. Matthews; that in the Museum came, I 
believe, from Devonshire. 
Sp. 6. @QUATUORDECIM GUTTATUS. Oliv. 
niger, flavo-guttatus, mucrone metathoracis brevi obtuso et 
emarginato. 
length 33 lines. 
Oliv. Ency. Méth. 8. 596. 13. 
Black: head punctured, pubescent; antennz piceous, with 
the apex of the basal joint having a fulvous spot, and the joints 
from the centre to the apex becoming gradually fulvous; the 
mandibles yellow at their base, then rufous, and their apex black. 
Thorax punctured, with a transverse line on each side of the 
collar; the tubercles, the tegulea, a spot on each side of the 
scutellum, two lines running in a curve from the lateral edges of 
the scutellum to the base of the inferior wings, and two incurved 
squamz at the posterior margin of the scutellum, all yellow ; 
the mucro at the base of the metathorax short, obtuse, and 
emarginate at its apex; wings slightly coloured, with their 
nervures brownish; legs black, with the inside of the anterior 
and intermediate femorz, and the exterior of all the tibiz, 
yellow: the tarsi ferruginous. 
The abdomen delicately punctured, with a transverse yellow 
spot on each side of the five first segments ; the margin of the 
third, fourth, and fifth segments rufo-piceous, and the apical 
segment rufo-testaceous 9. | 
I am unacquainted with the ¢. 
@ in the Cabinet of the British Museum. 
+44 I do not know where this was taken. 
Se. 7. nicricornis. N. Sp. 
niger, thorace abdomineque flavo maculato, pedibus flavis, mucrone 
metathoracis acuto ¢ 9. 
length 3} lines. 
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