or 
118 Rev. F. D. Morice on 
suits them in the main point, viz. that the 8rd ¢ ventral 
segment bears a tooth, it appears to me that they have 
structural characters which distinguish them from the real 
meridionalis, Of the latter I have several specimens, but 
unfortunately ¢ ¢ only, from 8. Italy (Taranto) and Corfu. 
All these, besides being darker insects, with narrower 
abdominal fasciae, than zibanensis and very much more 
black on the legs, differ from it in at least three points of 
structure, viz. the hind femora have a definite and fairly 
long ante-apical spine (in z2banensis there is only an 
extremely short black tooth—more like a minute tubercle 
than a spine !—), the hind tibiae are simple (in zibanensis 
they are somewhat paradoxically compressed and twisted 
slightly in the middle, so that in a particular point of view 
both their lateral outlines appear distinctly sinuated 
inwards between their bases and apices); and finally the 
7th ventral segment is “inerme” (Handlirsch) in mert- 
dionalis, while in zibanensis its extreme apex forms a tooth- 
like projection, much as in discolor, which is distinctly 
visible when the insect is viewed in profile from either side. 
Mr. Eaton was so fortunate as to capture a 2 together 
with one of his ~~. It completely agrees with their 
rather bright coloration, and is therefore probably dis- 
tinguishable “at sight” from meridionalis 2, which, accord- 
ing to Handlirsch, would seem to resemble its own J, and 
therefore to be darker than the specimen before me. 
¢. Antennis fere ut in meridionali constructis ; segmento ventrali 
3'° dentato (dente plerumque minore magisque incurvato, sed et 
forma et magnitudine variat!) 7™ apice dentiformi, angustato ac 
reflexo. Femora postica ante apicem haud spinula setiformi, sed 
dente nigro vel tuberculo brevissimo instructa. Tibiae posticae in 
medio singulariter compressae ac leniter quasi contortae, propterea 
marginibus ambobus ut videtur intus sinuatis. Pictura opulentior 
quam in meridionali, fere omnino utin gazagnaire: §. Flava sunt— 
facies sub antennis tota: collaris margo posticus cui tuberculis 
humeralibus: tegulae alarum etiamque mesonoti margines his adia- 
centes: scutelli maculae 2 magnae triangulares: postscutellum 
totum : abdominis segmentorum 1-6 dorsalium fasciae apicales latae 
integrae (etiam in ventre plus minusve conspicue continuatae) ; 
fascia 1™ postice late ac leniter semel emarginata, reliquis bi-excisis 
ac propterea tri-lobatis. Fulva vel testacea—segmenti dorsalis 7™ 
macula magna apicalis: antennae (superne leniter infuscatae) : 
pedesque (exceptis coxis trochanteribus que nigris) 
