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2. NEMATOPUS longipes, n. s. 



N. precedent! affinis ; pedibus anticis et intermediis fulvis, femo- 

 ribus intermediis fascia longitudinal! nigra, pedibus posticis 

 valde elongatis, nigris, tarsis fulvis ; abdominis dorso luteo 

 nigroque variegato. $ . 

 Long. lin. 10. 



Head, thorax, scutellum and under side of the body brassy 

 black, somewhat opaque. Head, thorax and scutellum thickly 

 and finely punctured. Coriaceous portion of the elytra pale 

 brown, thickly and finely punctured ; membrane brown. Back 

 of the abdomen black, with a broad band on the second segment, 

 and a somewhat triangular spot on each side of the fourth and 

 fifth segments yellow ; the margins yellow, with a black mark on 

 the posterior margin of each segment, Abdomen beneath smooth, 

 impunctate, clothed with minute pale hairs, with a narrow yellow 

 line across the posterior margin of each segment; the lateral 

 margins the same as on the upper surface. Breast finely wrinkled ; 

 posterior margin of the antepectus with a narrow yellow line ; 

 apertures of the odoriferous apparatus with a yellow tubercular 

 margin. Anterior and intermediate legs bright orange, with a 

 blackish longitudinal band on the inside of the intermediate 

 thighs ; posterior legs very long, black ; the thighs covered with 

 minute elevated points, and with a row of acute tubercles along 

 the upper surface, a strong, much curved spine about the middle 

 beneath, a small one between this and the base, another between 

 it and the apex, and two spines close to the apex ; the tibiae curved 

 from the base to a little before the middle, then nearly straight to 

 the apex, the basal curved portion with the inner margin smooth, 

 the remainder finely denticulated, the two or three first teeth 

 larger than the rest ; tarsi all bright orange, with the claws and 

 pulvilli black. Rostrum yellow, becoming orange towards the 

 extremity, with the tip black. Antennae with the basal joint 

 black, second and third joints pitchy brown, last joint wanting. 

 a. China. Presented by Larking, Esq. 



3. NEMATOPUS affinis, n. s. 



N. prsecedenti valde affinis ; thorace fusco, antice et postice nigro- 

 aeneo; abdomine supra fulvo, fascia longitudinali nigra; pe- 

 dibus anticis et intermediis fulvis, posticis nigris. $ ? . 

 Long. lin. 9. 



This species closely resembles the preceding ; it differs princi- 

 pally in its smaller size, in the thorax being brown, with the ante- 

 rior and posterior portions brassy black, the back of the abdomen 

 orange, with a black longitudinal band running through the four 



