a 
78 Rev. F. D. Morice on 
obliged to omit both names from his Tables, and relegate 
the descriptions to an appendix, I will here give the 
characters which I find in the 2 before me, and also 
those of the ¢ f which I take to belong to them, the latter 
sex being hitherto (so far as I know) undescribed. I may 
add that these characters show that in structure, though 
not in colour, the species is allied very closely to bupre- 
sticida, but that it can hardly be actually identified with it. 
Q?. Nigra, thorace infra et in lateribus cum propodei areis omnibus, 
et abdominis petiolo (hoc latitudine sua paullo longiore) rubris ; 
facies cum carina interantennali brevijcollare utrinque, post-scutellum 
(interdum), maculae duo vel fascia interrupta basalis abdominis 
segmenti 2" (cujus fasciae etiam in ventris lateribus continuatio satis 
obsoleta indicatur), fascia lata antice emarginata segmenti 3", et 
segmentum 5‘ fere totum superne, flava; pedes pallidi, femoribus 
(praeter genua) cum trochanteribus coxisque fuscis vel obscure rufis, 
tibiis intus macula elongata nigra ornatis. 
Clypei haud elevati apex in angulos plus minusve dentiformes 
excurrit, et praeterea tuberculis binis subapicalibus instructus est. 
(Haec autem armatura paene “ microscopica” appellari debet !) 
Segmenti ventralis 2" basis simplex (hand elevata) ; segmenti ven- 
tralis penultimi in medio evidenter foveati apex recurvatur in medio, 
ibique ita excisus est ut paene bidentatus videatur (minus tamen 
acute quam in bupresticida). Propodei area media rubra (an 
semper 2), disco laevi, et in medio haud canaliculata longitudinaliter, 
sed basi extrema brevissime et subtilissime longitudinaliter striolata. 
¢. Feminae simillima, sed minor, minusque rufescens, Abdominis 
quidem segm. 1™™ semper (ut videtur) rubrum: sed thoracis (proprie 
dicti) nulla pars et propodei aut areae solum laterales, aut ne hae 
quidem,-rufo-pictae. Flavedo ut in 9; sed fascia abdominis tertia 
non segmentum 5" occupat sed 6", et segmentum 2%" ventrale 
paene totum(!) flavet. 
Clypei margo apicalis denticulatus. Segmenti penultimi ventralis 
apex lateribus acute denticulatis. Propodei area media fere ut in 
femina, sed (in exemplaribus his omnibus) linea impressa longitu- 
dinali evidenter in medio divisa. 
The following two ¢ 2 may possibly belong to a different, 
or even to two different species, but I am more inclined to 
think their peculiarities “individual,” or at most “varietal.” 
a. Thorax entirely (except the yellow collar, postscutellum 
and tegulae) and also the cordiform area of the propodeum 
black (not red!). Hind tibiae within immaculate. Yellow 
