158 Mr. Bridgman's additions to Mr. Marshall's 



Hemimaehus ovatus, n. s. 



Abdoinine ovato, basi antennarum, abdomine medio 

 pedibusque rufis. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and densely reticu- 

 late, opaque. Head narrow behind the eyes ; face 

 slightly protuberant, subquadrate, a little longer than 

 wide ; sides parallel ; cheeks not buccated. Antennae 

 about as long as the body ; 1st and 2nd joints of flagellum 

 subequal, about four times as long as wide. Thorax 

 rather longer than high ; mesothorax distinctly trilobed, 

 the depressions between the lobes extending to the scu- 

 tellum ; metathorax short, without arese, the hinder 

 transverse line only present, and that feeble ; 1st abdo- 

 minal segment rather short ; petiole scarcely longer than 

 the post-petiole, which is quadrate, rather more than 

 twice as wide as the petiole ; spiracles projecting and 

 very prominent. Abdomen oblong-ovate, rather wider 

 than the thorax, and about as long as the head and 

 thorax ; 2nd and remaining segments transverse, apex 

 of 2nd and 3rd the widest. Legs slender. Wings clear ; 

 stigma fuscous, the imperfect areolet very small ; cubito- 

 discoidal nervure with a trace of nervelet, the transverse 

 anal nervure ante-furchal, and divided one-third from the 

 bottom. 



Mouth, base of antennae, and legs red ; 1st segment 

 of abdomen red ; base and sides of petiole dark brown, 

 a fuscous stain across the middle of the post-petiole ; 

 2nd segment red, with a faint fuscous stain across the 

 middle ; 3rd red, with a wide brown irregular mark 

 across the segment, nearly obliterating the red ; stigma 

 and nervures fuscous ; base of wings pale. Length, 

 4*5 mm. 



One male taken at Brundall, Sept. 15th, 1881. 



Hemimaehus rufocinctus. 

 Under the above name, in a collection that belonged 

 to Mr. Marshall, are four male insects which do not 

 agree either with Taschenberg's description of Hcmiteles 

 rufocinctus, Gr., nor to Hr. Brischke's description of 

 Hemimaehus rufocinctus, Batz., which is the male of 

 Foerster's Pezomachus instahilis. Taschenberg says that 

 H. rufocinctus, Gr., has on the metathorax two transverse 

 lines longitudinally wrinkled between them, but no 



