244 BLENNOCAMPA RUFICRURIS. 



bipunctata is certainly identical with the bipunciata of 

 Klug, Hartig and Thomson. 



10. BLENNOOAMPA RUFICRURIS. 



Selandria ruficruris, Brulle, Exp. d. Moree, iii, 393, 873 ; Zad., 



^Beschr., 35. ^ 

 Blennocampa ruficrwris, Andre, Species, i, 302 ; Cat., 38,* 26. 



Black. Antennae filiform, thin, of nearly equal thickness, the joints 

 distinctly separated, truncated and enlarged at apex, the third joint 

 curved, a little longer than fourth. Head small, smooth, shining, covered 

 with a very short pale down ; sutures scarcely visible ; clypeus trun- 

 cated ; palpi pale at the apex. Thorax smooth, shining, scarcely pubes- 

 cent, the basal half of pronotum broadly, and the tegulse testaceous ; 

 cenchri small, white. Abdomen nearly a third longer than the head and 

 thorax, smooth, shining; saw largely projecting, pilose. Legs: coxae, tro- 

 chanters, and basal three-fourths of femora (less than three-fourths of 

 anterior) black, apex of femora, tibiae and tarsi brownish-testaceous ; the 

 apex of tibiae and the apical joints of tarsi fuscous ; spurs very short. 

 Wings subhyaline, costa (extreme base is pale), stigma and nervures 

 black; the second cubital cellule has the upper side longer than the 

 tipper side of the third ; the lower side is angled where it receives the 

 recurrent nervure, and is shorter than the lower side of the third ; the 

 tr. radial nervure is interstitial. In the apical part of the second cubital 

 cellule is a faint dot. The mesonotum (with scutellum) is faintly punc- 

 tured ; the pleurae are semi-opaque, pubescent. 



The <$ has the antennae longer than the abdomen and slightly pilose. 



Length 3| lines. 



Ruficruris comes next to b^p^mctata 9 but it is larger, 

 the antennse are thinner, the joints more sharply sepa- 

 rated, the colour of the pronotum and tegulse is dif- 

 ferent ; the first recurrent nervure is received near the 

 middle of the cellule, and not in the basal fourth, and 

 the tr. radial nervure is joined to the third tr. cubital. 



Seemingly a rare species. A specimen has been 

 taken by Mr. E. Parfitt in Devonshire, and another by 

 Mr. Bridgman at Norwich. 



Continental distribution : Germany, Dalmatia, Morea. 



Abdomen, thorax, legs and stigma, rufous; head and antennse 

 black. Tr. radial nervure received a little beyond the middle 

 of cellule; tr. median in basal third of cellule; accessory 

 nervure in hind wings interstitial; second and third cubital 

 cellules subequal above ; third much wider at apex than at 

 base. Antennae short, filiform ; third joint a little longer 

 than fourth; frontal sutures distinct. Clypeus slightly in- 

 cised at apex ; patellae distinct (Species 11). 



