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Larra bicolorata, sp. n. 



Nigra, nitida, pruinosa ; femoribus posticis rufis ; alis fusco-violaceis, 



stigmate nigro, nervis fuscis. 2 . 

 Long. 12 mm. 



Scape of antennae and pedicle bare, smooth, and shining ; 

 the flagellum opaque, covered with a microscopic pubescence. 

 Head shining ; the front and vertex bare, sparsely minutely 

 punctured ; the ocellar region is depressed ; the raised part 

 in front of the ocelli is furrowed down the middle ; the 

 middle of the front is deeply furrowed ; the sides are more 

 broadly and not so deeply furrowed. Face and clypeus 

 closely punctured and thickly covered with pale pubescence ; 

 the labrum is fringed with long rufous hair. The base of 

 the mandibles closely punctured and covered with white 

 pubescence, the middle broadly rufous ; the palpi black, 

 fuscous towards the apex, and thickly covered with white 

 pubescence. Pro- and mesonotum closely and distinctly 

 punctured and covered with a short down, having a fulvous 

 hue on the latter, which is broadly depressed in the middle 

 at the base and on the sides towards the apex. Median 

 segment closely and distinctly punctured on the sides, which 

 are slightly depressed ; the central part closely, transversely, 

 irregularly striated ; the middle is slightly furrowed and 

 keeled down the centre of the furrow ; the keel is fainter 

 towards the apex ; the apical part has an oblique slope, is 

 closely punctured, the sides above transversely striated ; on 

 the apex are a few longitudinal striae ; the central furrow is 

 deep and extends to the top of the apical fourth of the seg- 

 ment. Propleurae closely punctured, obscurely striated in the 

 middle below; the mesopleurae are more distinctly punctured ; 

 the tubercles are large and depressed at the base ; behind 

 they are bordered by a thick band of white pubescence ; the 

 basal perpendicular and the upper longitudinal furrows are 

 deep and obscurely striated. Metapleurae closely punctured. 

 Mesosternum closely and distinctly punctured, furrowed 

 down the middle, and there is a transverse furrow before the 

 middle coxae ; the metasternum is opaque, alutaceous, keeled 

 round the sides, the base and apex are rounded, there is a 

 distinct furrow down the middle. Wings fuscous violaceous ; 

 the first cubital cellule at the top is half the length of the 

 second j both the recurrent nervures are received behind the 

 middle of the cellule. Legs thickly pruinose ; the hinder 

 femora bright red ; the tibiae and tarsi thickly spinose ; the 

 tarsal spines and the claws rufous. Abdomen very smooth 



