360 Mr. Bridffman's additions to T. A. Marshall's 



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Lathrolestus ungularis, Thorns. 



Thorns., Opusc. Ent., 918. 



This species I thought was Gryj)ocentrus dypeatus, 

 Zett. Prof. Thomson says it is the above species. 



Prionopoda glaher, n. s. 

 Niger, abdominis medio rufo, pedibus anticis rufis, coxis tro- 

 chanteribus et pedibus posticis maxima ex parte nigris, facie 

 feminis flava. 



Smooth, shining, impunctate, witli only hair-pits, except the face, 

 which has shallow somewhat scattered punctures ; pubescent ; apex 

 of clypeus subrotund ; lower tooth of mandibles longer than the 

 upper ; head somewhat tumid, not so much so as in P. stictica ; sides 

 of head scarcely oblique ; antennae as long as the body; 2nd joint of 

 flagellum twice as long as the 1st in the female, more than twice as 

 long in the male. Thorax : parapsides scarcely indicated ; scutellum 

 hardly elevated ; mesopleura punctate ; disc smooth ; metanotum 

 with three distinct superior areae ; supero-medial area elongate, 

 Bomewhat bulging in the middle, most frequently closed behind ; 

 postero-medial generally with a central longitudinal keel. Abdo- 

 men of female elongate-ovate, apex of 3rd and 4th segments the 

 widest ; the male subcylindrical, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of equal width, 

 about one-half longer than the head and thorax ; female about as 

 wide as the thorax, male narrower ; 1st segment of both sexes the 

 same length, subpyriform ; spiracles not projecting, the apex about 

 three times as wide as the base ; petiole gradually tapering ; in the 

 male the segment is about two and a half times as long as the 

 width of the apex, in the female four times; the segment is more 

 slender in the female than in the male, very sHghtly curved ; 2nd 

 and 3rd longer than wide ; 4th transverse. Legs somewhat 

 slender ; claws with short not close pectinations. Wings with a 

 petiolated somewhat oblique areolet ; external radial nervure 

 curves first slightly outwards and then inwards ; transverse 

 anal nervure divided below the middle about one-third from the 

 bottom. 



$ . Black ; mouth and face yellow ; flagellum pale beneath ; 

 abdomen red ; 1st segment black, apical segments dusky. Legs : 

 coxae and trochanters black ; front and middle femora red, paler at 

 the apex, dusky at the base ; front and middle tibiic and tarsi 

 yellow ; last joint of middle tarsi dusky ; hind legs black ; apex of 

 trochanters, extreme base of femora, and basal lialf of tibiae and 



