6. MA( ROPHI \. 269 



7 V Macrophya nigropicta. 

 (Plate X. fig. 12.) 

 Macrophya nigropicta, Smith, Tram. Ei<t, Soc. Land. L874, p. 377. 



Exp. al. 12 lin..long. corp. 5 lin. 



Head yellow ; a large irregular roundish black spot on the vertex, 



enclosing the ocelli, and sometimes marked with two small yellow 



i ; it throw- ofl a -mall projection in front, and a Lroader 



one behind ; and there i- also a Mack spot on each side of the latter, 



extending to the back of the head, which is wholly black, as well 



.me. There is also a rather large black spot behind each 



a*l middleof pectus black ; prothorax, V- 



spot, tw< imetimes scarcely separated 



from it. scutellum, itellum, and lines running from the scu- 



I back of the base of the fore wings, all yellow. 



Abdomen yellow, « ill the segments 



abovi -. and two short streaks at their base, black ; Legs yellow, 



media-,- i mity 



above, and hind tdme and tar pt more or less of the ],;.- 



former), black. Wings hyaline, faintly tinged with yellow towards 

 the extremities ; nerru 'late cell with straight cross 



nervure. 



This species is more like ,-t / an a Mcu rophy > in shape, 



colour, and marking-, but has the long hind coxae of the Latter 



Huh. Japan, 

 a. b. 9. (Types ) N u-th Japan. lb Fortune. 



li. Xorth-Am 



79. Macrophya abbotii. 



(Plate X. fig. 11.) 



Exp. al. 12- 13 lin.. 1' li lin. 



idomen with 3 5 rufous, both above and below . 



also th, and the hind coxae beneath, in the male 



only. Legs piceous or ru ; wing.- violaceous, with blackish 

 -. ires. 



This species may possibly be identical with Tenthredopsis atrovio- 

 tidus, Xort., described from female examples only ; but 

 there is no trace of a white spot on the coxa?. Norton would pro- 

 bably have mentioned its absence, had it been absent in his spe- 

 cimens of cinctulus; for tins spot is present in atroviolaceus, var. 

 tardus, between which and the typical atroi ■ cinctulus would 



be intermedial- . 



