76 NEMATQS BREADALBANENSIS. 



ventris, Thorns., but the densely pilose body shows 

 beyond dispute that it has no relationship with 

 Thomson's species. 



Braemar (Dr. Buchanan White). 



19. NEMATUS BEEADALBANENSIS. 

 PL I, fig. 6, ? ; PL XVII, fig. 2, Saw. 



Nematus pallipes, Cam., E. M. M., x, 211 ; Proc. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. Glas., ii, 311 ; Fauna, 35, 28, 

 nee Fall. 

 breadalbanensis, Cam., Trans. Ent. Soc., 1882, 531. 



Black ; apex of clypeus, labrum, and palpi white ; legs pale testa- 

 ceous. The coxae, except at extreme apex, trochanters in part, basal two- 

 thirds of anterior femora, and posterior almost wholly, black, with the 

 apex of posterior tibiae and tarsi fuscous. Head roughly punctured, 

 opaque, slightly pilose, scarcely broader than mesothorax ; vertex thick, 

 front projecting, labrum sub-quadrate ; mandibles piceous. Thorax 

 black, scarcely shining, covered with sparse pubescence, minutely 

 punctured ; pleurae punctured, opaque, and covered with close, short 

 pile ; the edge of pronotum and tegulse pale testaceous ; cenchri of 

 medium size. Abdomen longer than head and thorax ; anal part testa- 

 ceous. Antennae as long as the body, stout, black, the third and fourth 

 joints about equal, the third slightly curved, longer than the longitu- 

 dinal diameter of the eye. Wings hyaline, nervures testaceous at base, 

 black at apex, costa and stigina testaceous white. Calcaria one-third 

 of the length of metatarsus ; second joint of tarsus longer than 

 fifth. <?. 



The ? has the antennae as long as the thorax and abdomen, and they 

 are more slender than in the <^, the black on apex of posterior tibiae 

 is less (in it sometimes reaches to near the base of tibiae, while in 

 other specimens it scarcely exists on tibiae or tarsi), and the anal seg- 

 ment is dirty-white above. The size of the third cubital cellule varies, 

 it being sometimes as long as broad, and it may be much longer than 

 broad ; the second recurrent nervure is, in most of the females I have 

 seen, joined to third transverse cubital nervure or nearly so, but in one 

 or two specimens it is at some distance from it, which is its normal 

 position in most males. The testaceous colour on pronotum varies in 

 extent, and may be entirely absent in both sexes. 



Length 33^ lines. 



The above species comes near to N. pallipes, Fall., 

 from which, however, it differs in two important 

 points : 1st, in having the coxas black, while pallipes 

 has them testaceous, and it has only a thin black line 

 or splash on the femora ; and 2nd, in the spurs not 

 reaching the middle of metatarsus, I have not seen 

 the <$ of pallipes, but judging from the ? that species 



