LYXAHMES. 



95- 



segments being not distinctly longer than their breadth, in the 

 shorter hinder tarsi compared with the tibiae, in the much shorter 

 hinder coxae, and in the head being less developed behind the 

 eyes " ( Cameron, loc. cit.) . 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Wings infurnate below stigma ; mesonotum 



not flavous 



2 (1) Wings hyaline ; mesonotum with discal 



flavous stripes 



maculipennis, Cam. 

 hyaKnipennis, Cam. 



51. Lytarmes maculipennis, Cam. 



Lytarmes maculipennis, Cameron,* Mancli. Mem. 1899, p. 145 r 

 pi. iii, %. 9 ( ). 



A black species, with brown markings and the legs paler, the 

 head white-marked and the wings int'umate below the stigma. 



Head with the face (except 

 centrally), clypeus. frontal 

 orbits broadly throughout 

 and the outer (except on the 

 vertex), flavous ; face cen- 

 trally infuscate, mandibles 

 black and palpi flavescent; 

 face punctate and densely 

 covered with elongate in- 

 fuscate pilosity ; irons black, 

 nitidulous and trans -aci- 

 culate, with the orbits 

 elevated ; vertex posteriorly, 

 and the occiput, piceous. 

 Antenna; slightly shorter 

 than the body, with the 

 flagellum blackish and 

 basally ferruginous ; scape 

 flavescent below and rufes- 

 cent above. Thorax brown- 

 ish, with black markings ; 

 pronotum broadly, and the 

 callosities at the radices, stra- 

 mineous ; mesonotum with 

 three broad discal stripes 

 and the scutellar fovea black ; pleurae glabrous and niti- 

 dulous, with the mesopleurae roundly elevated below ; meso- 

 sternum shagreened, with dense and infuscate pilosity; 

 metathorax smooth and shining, ferruginous, with its centre 

 stramineous, apex black and its base triangularly impressed. 

 Scutellum except at apex, and its carinae, stramineous and punc- 

 tate ; postscutellum glabrous and nitidulous, broadly impressed 

 centrally and rounded apically. Abdomen black and glabrous, 



Fig. 21. Lytarmes maculipennis, Cam. 



