Genus Mantispa. 261 



Head entirely chesnut, smooth, with a slight impression on each 

 side behind the antennae, which are short, about twice the length 

 of the head, 32-jointed, rather slender; basal joint large, oval, 

 2nd small, third longer, but rather slenderer than the 4th, which is 

 transverse and short, as are the following joints, except near the 

 tip, where they become slightly more slender, the terminal joint 

 acute at the tip ; prothorax about 2\ times the length of the head, 

 slender, dilated in front, glabrous, the cylindrical part with trans- 

 verse elevated lines, and with two tubercles at the anterior part : 

 glabrous, not granulose, entirely dirty-luteous orange, with a 

 slender dark line at each side ; mesothorax orange yellow, with a 

 short oblique black line, extending from the anterior angles ; scu- 

 tellum very convex and prominent, yellow ; metathorax coloured 

 like the mesothorax, but with the black marks less conspicuous, 

 beneath and sides of the meso- and metathorax yellow, with black 

 lines ; abdomen yellow, with a black ring at the extremity of each 

 segment, interrupted in the middle ; segments beneath less strongly 

 marked with black ; fore legs orange-chesnut ; femora with a 

 black dash above the row of teeth ; four hind legs entirely orange 

 yellow ; ungues of the tarsi with several long teeth on the under- 

 side ; wings coloured as in the last species ; with eight lon- 

 gitudinal oblique discoidal cells, dependent upon the 3rd sector of 

 the radius of the fore wings, and upon the 2nd sector of the radius 

 of the hind wings. 



36. M. delicatula, Westw. Picea, capite flavo vario, abdominis 

 lateribus flavo-punctatis, antennislongis, gracilibus, 41-articu- 

 latis ; pedibus anticis elongatis, gracilibus, piceis,luteo-striatis ; 

 alis elongatis, stigmate griseo, fusco-tincto, cellulis 10 sec- 

 toris 3tii radialis anticarum. Tab. nostr. 17, fig. 5. 



Long. corp. lin. 4 — 7; expans. alar. lin. 10 — 15. 

 Habitat apud Adelaidam. D. Fortnum. In Mus. Hope. 



The head is broad ; the crown quite convex, with only a very 

 slight impression on each side behind the antennae ; the eyes with 

 a slender yellow margin on the inner edge ; the face below the 

 antennae is luteous yellow, with a dark lateral irregular slender 

 line extending from the lateral angles of the clypeus to the vertex. 

 Below the antennae are three small triangular pitchy-coloured 

 spots placed in a triangle ; the clypeus and labrum are also dark 

 in the centre ; the mandibles are dark at the tips ; a very slender 

 short yellow line extends upwards from between the antennae, and 

 there are two yellow spots on the crown between the middle of 



