Genus Mantispa. 259 



parentes, tres faiblement teintees de jaun&tre, h nervures et 

 stygmate d'un brun rougeatre assez vif. Abdomen noiratre 

 en dessus, avec une bande etroite jaune de chaque cote, jaune 

 en dessous avec une bande mediane brune. Pattes d'un 

 jaune fauve. Long. 17 mill. ; enverg. 34 mill. New Holland. 

 Tab. nostr. 17, fig. 2. 



The head is dark chesnut on the crown, with two rather deep 

 impressions behind the antennae, leaving a slender central carina ; 

 the face below the antennae is yellow, with a short raised dark line 

 in the centre, close below the insertion of the antennae ; the labrum 

 is chesnut in the middle, and the mandibles dark at the tip ; the 

 eyes are narrowly margined on the inside with yellow. The an- 

 tennae are scarcely more than twice the length of the head, thick, 

 becoming gradually, but slightly, more slender towards the tip ; 

 they are 36-jointed, chesnut coloured, darker towards the tip, the 

 first joint beneath yellow, large and globose ; second joint much 

 smaller ; third, rather longer and slenderer ; fourth, and following, 

 short and transverse ; last joint small, oval, and apparently divided 

 into two joints. The prothorax is but little more than twice the 

 length of the head, dilated in front, transversely rugose, and very 

 granulose, with a large tubercle on each side, about one-third of 

 the length from the head; it is of a greyish chesnut colour above, 

 much paler beneath : the meso- and metathorax are chesnut 

 coloured above, paler at the sides and beneath. The abdomen is 

 dark chesnut above, with a pale and very narrow, followed by a 

 broader dark brown lateral stripe ; beneath dirty buff, sometimes 

 with a dark central stripe. The fore legs are entirely of an orange 

 yellow, except that the inner face of the femora is more chesnut 

 coloured. The hind legs are also orange yellow, with simple 

 ungues. The wings are slightly stained yellow, the chief veins 

 reddish yellow, the rest brown, the stigma long and bright red, 

 the general number of oblique longitudinal cells, dependent upon 

 the sector radii tertius of the fore wings, and sector radii secundus 

 of the hind wings, appears to be eleven ; the veins separating 

 the cells being less curved than in the preceding species. 



Inhabits Van Diemen's Land and Adelaide. 



Mus. Hope (D. Fortnum), Saunders and Westwood (D. Wilson). 



The species varies considerably in size. 



The following species are now, for the first time, described. 



34. M. strigipes, Westw. Castanea, facie flava, linea media 

 nigra, vertice flavo vario, prothorace supra punctis nonnullis 

 lineaque tenui media flavis ; femoribus anticis extus linea media 



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