XXXIV. PHILANTHUS. 24.5 
entirely yellow, the pedicel black, and the following joints 
ferruginous. 
The thorax black, punctured ; the triangle at the base of the 
metathorax with a profound longitudinal impression in its centre, 
whence oblique striz diverge laterally ; the collar with a spot 
on each side, the scutellum with sometimes an interrupted 
line, the post-dorsolum with a transverse line, and a spot on 
each side of the metathorax (sometimes wanting), as also the 
tegulz, all yellow; the wings slightly coloured, with their 
margins darker; the legs yellow, their cox black, and the 
posterior knees and tarsi ferruginous. 
The abdomen black, with a yellow band on the second to the 
sixth segment, that on the second occupying its anterior por- 
tion, and being emarginate on its posterior edge (sometimes 
entire), and having a small black spot on each side, those on 
the second and sixth generally occupying the entire segment, 
and the fourth and fifth much attenuated in the middle, and that 
on the third occasionally emarginate in front 3. 
The ¢ I am unacquainted with. 
é in the Collection of the 
British Museum. 
++ Panzer’s insect is evidently a slight variety of this, 
and it is so very different from the g of C. ornata, that I 
am surprised Van der Linden should refer it to that species. 
I am unacquainted with the $, but I think it very pro- 
bably may be the C. quadricincta, the species preceding 
this. 
Genus XXXV.—Puitantuus. Fab. 
Heap large, wider than the thorax, suborbiculate ; eyes lateral, 
emarginate ; antenne clavate, and very thick in the middle 
(not so stout in the ¢), not approximate, inserted in the 
middle of the face within a depression, thus forming an ele- 
