422 Mr. Claude Morley on the 



entirely pale coxse and scutellum, as also the clypeal 

 structure, at once distinguish it. 



Taken by Dr. Capron, probably in Surrey ; the type is 

 in my collection. 



Uxori mihi hoc insectum dicatum volo. 



HOMOPORUS NIGER, sp. n. 



Head as broad as thorax, closely and finely punctate, somewhat 

 dull ; black with face, mouth except apices of mandibles, frontal 

 orbits and the cheeks shortly, stramineous ; vertex narrow and not 

 posteriorly emarginate ; frons strongly canaliculate centrally and the 

 epistoma subdeplanate ; clypeus convex, apically margined, evenly 

 rounded and hardly emarginate apically in the centre ; cheeks as 

 long as breadth of mandibles at their base. Antenna? slightly longer 

 than head and thorax, filiform, black above, scape and pedicellus 

 stramineous and flagellum ferrugineous beneath. Thorax stout, 

 somewhat nitidulous, strongly and evenly but not confluently 

 punctate ; notauli anteriorly wanting, though traceable from the 

 oroad and hamate pale line before the wing to the subdeplanate disc 

 of the mesonotum ; dots beneath both pairs of wings as well as 

 before the anterior pair pale, as also is the mesosternum anteriorly ; 

 metathorax scabriculous, with the lateral costae, petiolar and sub- 

 quadrate basal arese entire. Scutellum strongly deplanate, black ; 

 deeply and evenly but not confluently punctate. Abdomen sub* 

 parallel-sided, entirely black ; the two basal segments coarsely and 

 confluently punctate, with their ventral plica dull testaceous ; the 

 first basally bicarinate nearly to its centre and the second basally 

 irregularly striolate ; the third segment basally scabrous, apically 

 (with the following) nitidulous, obsoletely punctate and pilose ; 

 sixth apically truncate and not compressed, the two last incon- 

 spicuous and hardly exserted. Legs clear fulvous ; all the coxa? and 

 trochanters clear stramineous with the hind coxae basally black ; 

 hind tarsi not infuscate, with calcaria one-third the length of their basal 

 joint. Wings normal, radix stramineous, stigma fulvous ; areolet 

 sessile with the outer nervure sub-obsolete ; nervellus sub-opposite 

 and intercepted below its centre. 



Length, 5 mm. <$ only. 



Tins species is certainly allied to H. brevicornis, Thorns, 

 (only known in the $ sex), and it is just possible that it 

 may represent its male, though differing in the short 

 petiolar carinse, posteriorly entire vertex, entirely pale 

 stigma, substriate second segment and the colour of the 



