292 TEN USA MELANOPODA. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1 (4) Tegulaa white, legs for the greater part white. 



2 (3) Pronotum and pleurae black. Pygmcea. 



3 (2) Pronotum and pleura white. Hortulana. 



4 (1) Tegulas black. 



5 (8) Legs testaceous, antennae longish. 



6 (7) Transverse radial nervure received in middle of second cubital 



cellule; frontal sutures invisible. Pumilio. 



7 (6) Transverse radial nervure nearly interstitial ; frontal sutures 



deep. Betulce, 



8 (9) Legs white, antennas longish. Albipes. 



9 (8) Legs for the greater part black. Antennae short. 



10 (13) Transverse radial nervure received beyond second transverse 



cubital in third cubital cellule. 



11 (12) Antennae not thickened towards the apex, third joint more than 



double the length of fourth. Melanopoda. 



12 (11) Antennae perceptibly thickened towards the apex; third joint 



not more than double the length of fourth. Pumila. 



13 (10) Transverse radial nervure received before the apex of the 



second cubital cellule, nearly touching the second transverse 

 cubital. Ulmi. 



SECTION 1. Frontal sutures distinct. Transverse basal 

 nervure touching costal. Transverse radial nervure 

 received in the third cubital cellule or nearly joined 

 to the third cubital. Legs mostly for the greater 

 part black, seldom testaceous. Antennce mostly 

 short. 



1. FENUSA MELANOPODA. 

 PL II, figs. 6 and 6 a, Larva. 



Fenusa nigricans, Thorns., Hyni. Sc., i, 184, 1. 



Phcenusa melanopoda, Cam., P. N. H. S. Glas., iii, 6; Fauna, 



22, 1 ; Andre, Species, i, 231 ; 



Cat., 28,* 10. 



Glossy -black ; antennas shortly pilose, a little curved, as long, if not 

 longer, than the thorax ; the first joint large, globose, with a pedicle 

 at the base ; the second nearly as long as the first, not so globose ; 

 third more than double the length of the fourth ; the rest to the eighth 

 getting a little shorter ; ninth conical, thinner and longer than the 

 eighth. Head scarcely narrower than the thorax, smooth, covered with 

 a fuscous -black pubescence ; sutures distinct, moderately deep ; labrum 

 and mandibles piceous; palpi fuscous. Thorax shining, smooth, 

 scarcely pubescent; sutures very distinct; cenchri obscure. Breast 

 smooth, shining. Legs : all the knees, and four anterior tibia? and tarsi 



