142 Mr. Bridginan's additions to Mr. Marshall's 



As I believe Mr. Marshall had not described this 

 insect, I have taken that liberty, and have named it 

 after him. 



Hemiteles obscurus, n. s. 



Niger, pedibus piceis. 



Head shining, transverse ; face rather protuberant in 

 the middle ; clypeus distinctly separated from the face ; 

 mandibles rather broad, teeth subequal, the space be- 

 tween the eyes and the mandibles about equal to the 

 width of the clypeus ; a deep semicircular impressed line 

 above the antennae ; these latter short, flagellate, about 

 two-thirds the length of the insect ; nagellum in one 

 specimen 15 joints, in the other 14; 1st joint more 

 slender than the rest, about three times as long as wide ; 

 the remainder gradually decreasing in length to the last 

 one, which is conic and about two and a half times as 

 long as the width of the base, the four or five joints 

 before almost of the same length, quadrate. Thorax 

 about one-quarter longer than high, closely and distinctly 

 punctate, opaque, trilobed, divisions deep and rather 

 wide ; scutellum rather long, keeled at the base ; meta- 

 thorax shining, with a few scattered rugosities ; supero- 

 and postero-medial united, somewhat of a broad coffin- 

 shape, with the long end upwards ; lateral arese divided ; 

 lines sharply defined, terminating laterally in a short, 

 sharp spine ; 1st segment of abdomen and basal two- 

 thirds of the 2nd somewhat transversely rugose ; the 

 remainder shining. Abdomen subovate ; 1st segment 

 stout, about two and a half times as long as the width of 

 the apex ; this twice as wide as the base ; spiracles about 

 in the middle ; gradually sloping from the base to these, 

 and then the sides not quite parallel ; all the remaining 

 segments transverse, the 3rd the widest. Legs slender. 

 Stigma of median size and shape ; areolet pentagonal, 

 with outer nervure entirely wanting ; the recurrent 

 discoidal nervure absent, as also is the lower half of the 

 transverse discoidal ; the transverse ordinary not inter- 

 stitial ; the lower nervures of the hind wing very faint, 

 transverse anal not divided. 



Black ; front legs ochraceo-piceous ; coxae and tro- 

 chanters black, apex of latter pale ; middle and hind 

 legs, coxae black ; trochanters, base dark, apex pale ; 

 femora piceous, paler behind ; tibiae piceous, paler at the 



