446 Mr. J. Scott on new Genera and Species 



Head brown, with a reddish tinge, sparingly clothed with 

 fine depressed yellow hairs. Antennce yellow or pale brownish 

 yellow ; first joint, apex narrowly fuscous ; second, base 

 narrowly fuscous, apex black. Eyes dark red or chestnut-red. 

 Rostrum yellow, last joint orange-red. 



Thorax. — Pronotum pale brownish yellow, sparingly clothed 

 with depressed yellow hairs ; anterior portion as far as the 

 ti'ansverse channel darker than the posterior, and with a 

 reddish tinge ; posterior portion punctate crenate. Scutellum 

 pale brownish yellow, with a slight reddish tinge. Elytra 

 pale brownish yellow : clavus, inner marginal nerve from 

 the base to beyond the apex of the scutellar margin red : 

 corntm, anterior margin beyond the middle with a short 

 black line, first nerve at the base with a short black line, the 

 space between the nerves more or less powdered w^ith red 

 towards the base ; apex broadly brown. Membrane pale, 

 almost white, spaces between the nerves at the base brown ; 

 from the apex to the coloration between the two exterior 

 nerves is a pale brownish cloud, concave on its lateral margins. 

 Sternum brownish yellow, with more or less of a reddish tinge, 

 down the middle broadly black : mesosternum round the base 

 of the legs yellow, below which is a black spot. Legs yellow : 

 coxce and fulcra of all the pairs yellow : thighs^ first pair red, 

 apex yellow ; second and third pairs yellow ; all the pairs with 

 two dark brown or piceous rings : tarsi yellow, apex of the 

 third joint blackish. 



Abdomen above red or red-brown, basal segment entirely 

 and the posterior margin of the last in the middle black, 

 genital segments with a broad black dash down the middle ; 

 beneath red, four basal segments dowai the middle broadly 

 black. Connexivum red, exterior margin narrowly yellow, 

 posterior angle of the third, fourth, and fifth segments black. 



Female yellowish, with a red tinge. Head and pronotum 

 red. Elytra, clavus- and cormw-nerves red. All the other 

 characters as in the male. 



Length, ^J 4, ? 4| lines. 



Family Pelogonidae. 

 Genus Pelogonus, Latr. 

 Pelogonus flavomarginatus. 



Dull black ; lateral margin of the pronotum and anterior 

 margin of the elytra yellow. 



Head black, with a fine central keel terminating between 

 the ocelli. Face bronzy black, finely wrinkled, and with a 



