404 Mr. F. Smith on new Species 



St.-Fargeau has described a species of this germs, which he 

 names Savignyi • the size given is 9 to 10 lines. He quotes, 

 however, a figure in Savigny's ' Egypt ' as being his species ; 

 the figure is over 15 lines long, and is certainly the species 

 now described as L. magnified, and has no reference to St.- 

 Fargeau's insect. 



Larra fiavo-maculata. 



Male. Length 8 lines. Black ; the abdomen with bright 

 yellow maculae ; wings dark brown, with a violet iridescence. 

 Head : the antennae, labrum, and mandibles ferruginous ; the 

 face with silvery pubescence. Thorax more or less covered 

 with griseous pubescence ; the apex of the anterior femora, 

 the tibia?, and the anterior and intermediate tarsi ferruginous. 

 Abdomen shining ; the second, third, and fourth segments with 

 irregular-shaped transverse maculae in the middle of the 

 segments on each side, those on the second segment smallest ; 

 beneath entirely black. 



Rah. S. Africa (Burghersdorp). 



Genus Nysson, Latr. 

 Nysson pilosus. 



Female. Length 4 lines. Black, variegated with yellow, 

 and covered with changeable white silky pile. Head strongly 

 punctured, and covered anteriorly with pale golden pile, but 

 not quite as high as the anterior ocellus ; the clypeus widely 

 emarginate ; the mandibles whitish at their base and ferrugi- 

 nous at their apex. Thorax strongly punctured ; the meso- 

 thorax with a central longitudinal impressed line ; the scutel- 

 lum rugose, its lateral margins, as well as those of the post- 

 scutellum, raised ; the enclosed space at the base of the meta- 

 thorax with divergent carinas, and the posterior lateral angles 

 produced into large flattened acute spines that are pale at their 

 apex and covered with dense silvery pubescence ; the legs 

 obscurely ferruginous ; the wings subhy aline and iridescent ; 

 the nervures black. Abdomen : the base strongly punctured ; 

 beyond, finely and sparingly so ; the apical margins of the 

 segments pale testaceous, and narrowly edged with bright 

 golden pubescence. 



The male differs only in having the face covered with bright 

 silvery pubescence, and the legs of a brighter ferruginous. 



A variety from St. Paulo has the legs quite black, as well 

 as the apical margins of the segments of the abdomen, except 

 the first segment, which is pale laterally ; three specimens 

 from Para agree with the above description. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). 



