8 CATALOGUE OF 



near llie tip, which is sometimes brown; membrane pellucid. Length of 

 the body 7 lines. 



a. Mysol. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



b, c. Dory, New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 d—f. Dory, New Guinea. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



25. DlNDYMUS VENUSTULUS. 



Mas. Niger, fusiformis ; rostrum segmenti ventralis It marginetn posti- 

 cum attingens ; antenna cor pore sat breviores, articuli 4i dimidio 

 basalt albo ; prothorax antice albo poslice luteo marginatus ; venter 

 luteo marginatus et univitlatus ; pedes femoribus anticis subincras- 

 satis, femoribus tarsisque quatuor posterioribus basi albis ; corii 

 costa fasciaque subapiculis alba. Var. /3. — Prothorax albo margi- 

 natus ; anlennarum arliculus 4us totus niger. 



Male. Black, fusiform, hardly punctured. Head triangular, shining, 

 smooth. Eyes very prominent. Rostrum extending to the hind border of 

 the first ventral segment. Antennae somewhat shorter than the body ; first 

 joint as long as the head; second a little shorter than the first; third much 

 shorter thau the second ; fourth a little shorter than the first, white for 

 nearly half the length from the base. Prothorax with a well-defined trans- 

 verse middle furrow, and with a narrow border which is luteous behind and 

 white in front. Abdomen beneath with a luteous border and a broad 

 irregular luteous stripe. Fore femora slightly incrassated, with subapical 

 spines beneath ; four posterior femora and tarsi white towards the base. 

 Coriura with a white costa and a white subapical band. Var. /3. — Prothorax 

 with a white border. Fourth joint of the antenna? wholly black ; stripe 

 beneath the abdomen indistinct. Length of the body 4 — 4£ lines. 



a. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



b. New Guinea. From Mr. VVallace's collection. 



26. DlNDYMUS BDTILANS. 



Mas. Niger, fusiformis ; rostrum segmentum 2um ventrale attingens ; 

 antenna corpore multo breviores ; prothorax postice fortiter pnnctatus, 

 margine antico albo ; segmenta peclorulia albo marginata ; abdomen 

 coriique dimidium basale rufa ; membrana diaphana. 



Male. Black, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head triangular. Eyes 

 very prominent. Rostrum extending to the second ventral segment. 

 Antenna? much shorter than the body; first joint longer than the head; 

 second much shorter than the first ; third shorter than the second. Pro- 

 thorax with a strongly-marked transverse furrow at somewhat in front of 

 the middle ; hind part roughly punctured ; fore border white. Pectoral 

 segments bordered with white. Abdomen bright red. Corium bright red 

 for half the length from the tip. Membrane pellucid. Length of the body 

 4£ lines. 



a. Siara. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



