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short and black; the first joint of the tarsi has thick yellow 
hairs on the under surface. ‘The shading of the wings at 
apex does not extend quite so far. 
This species differs from the typical species of the genus, 
the ovipositor including only the seventh segment, not the 
sixth, and the genitalia of the male are very unobtrusive 
and simple ; it approaches the genus Cinadus in having a 
strong bulge on the posterior branch of the third vein, but 
cannot be included in that genus, the genitalia being too 
small and the ovipositor not conical. For the present. it is 
left in the Neoitamus geuus. 
Neoitamus rubrofemoratus, 8 2, sp. 0. 
Type (male) and other males, type (female) and other 
females ; all from Tientsin, 15. 6. 06 (#. M. Thomson), 
1907, 200. 
A large species in the same group as J. involntus, Wik., 
N. grandis, hiadostant, tarsalis, and niyrinus, sp. v., but dis- 
tinguished by the almose whi olly reddish-yellow legs, the 
femora with very indistinct black stripes ; the ovipositor of 
the female determines the generic place, however. Antenne 
reddish. Abdomen black with grey bands. 
Length, § 21-22, 9 28-25 mm. 
Male.— lace covered with yellowish tomentum; the 
tubercle large, but not very prominent, carrying a yellow- 
haired moustache. Palpi black with pa'e yeilow hairs. 
Beard yellowish white. Antenne with the first two joinis 
black, the second red at apex, and third wholly red. Hind 
part of head with the usual strong black bristles, in the 
centre with yellow hairs, which also are present on the lower 
sides. Thorax covered. with greyish-yellow tomentum and 
with dark black-brown stripes, the median one hardly divided 
in the centre, the side-stripes short ; pubescence chiefly 
black, very distinct on the median stripe, reaching to its 
anterior border; two prasutural bristles, two supra- alar, and 
three postalar bristles, all long and black ; the dorso-central 
ones uumerous, but the bristles are much weaker. Scute//um 
same colour as thorax with two long black bristles. dddomen 
with a rounded, large, biackish-brown spot on each cou ent ; 
the sides and posterior borders grey. Genitalia very large, 
the underpart. proceeding from below tle last segment with 
a large black clasper on “each side and a central yellowish 
curved process, the black part with black hairs, the upper 
part also large, black, with black hairs. Legs reddish yellow ; 
the femora black at the base and at apex, often with an 
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