266 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



$ 1. Medea, on Eryngium triq^ictrum, 28, vi, 98. 



(A.U.U.) 

 $ $. La Calle, on Scahiosa rutieifolia, 18 and 19, vii, 96. 



(A.KK) 

 $. Bone, 20, viii, 96. {A. E. E.) 

 ?. Le Tarf, 24, vi, 96. {A. E. E.) 



Crocisa quadridentata, n. sp. 



Nigra, antennis crassiusculis, articulis quarto et sequentibus 

 valde transvei^sis Capite, thorace plerumque, abdominis segmentis 

 apicibus fasciis late niveis, medio interruptis, ornatis, segmentnm 

 primum et secundum lateribus quoque niveis et primum basi 

 niveum mesonoti scutum postice emarginatum et angulatum, scutel- 

 lum postice valde emarginatum et in angulos duos piceos productum 

 pedibus niveo-pubescentibus. 



$ . Very distinct from any other species of the genus by its more 

 extensive pattern of snowy-white pubescence — the head, thorax 

 except a band across the mesonotum between the tegulse, and the 

 greater part of the scutellum, clothed with snowy-white hairs, all 

 the segments of the abdomen with a wide apical band of similar 

 hairs narrowly interrupted in the middle, the 1st and 2nd segments 

 with the sides also white-haired, and the first having its base also white, 

 tlie white pubescsnce of the 3rd and following segments almost covers 

 the wliole of the exposed surface, legs with the apices of the femora and 

 the tibite and tarsi externally clothed with white hairs, labrum 

 piceous, antennse very short and stout, piceous anteriorly, the basal 

 joint clothed with snowy hairs the 3rd joint almost as long as the 

 4th and 5th together the 4th and following transverse, much wider 

 than long, each joint posteriorly with a shining round impression, in 

 this respect agreeing with crassicornis, Mor., mesonotum coarsely 

 punctured, tegulre piceous, with fine very remote punctures, wings 

 hyaline, their apices darker, nervures dark piceous, the scutum of 

 the mesonotum is posteriorly emarginate, and its angles are produced 

 beyond the base of the scutellum so as to be slightly prominent, the 

 scutellum is very largely ^^mctured, emarginate posteriorly and 

 produced at the sides into two sharp piceous angles, the emargination 

 fringed with white hairs projecting from beneath — abdomen slightly 

 shining, finely punctured, apical segment bidentate, beneath shining 

 the segments each bearing two snowy-white sjjots, tarsi piceous at 

 the apex, there appears to be no fringe on the apex of the 6tli 

 segment. 



Long. 9 mm. 



