142 NEMATUS FEUTICUM. 



65. NEMATUS V-FLAVTJM. 



Nematus V-flavum, Cam., Trans. Ent. Soc., 1882, 537. 



Black, shining ; labrum white ; pronotum, tegulae, the greater part 

 of mesopleura in front, metapleura in part, the edges of the middle 

 lobe of mesonotum (forming a Y-shaped mark), abdomen and legs 

 orange-yellow ; the base of abdomen with two small transverse black 

 marks. Antennae not much longer than metathorax and abdomen ; 

 the third joint the length of the fourth ; black, dull brown beneath. 

 Clypeus truncated at apex. Spurs scarcely reaching to middle of 

 metatarsus ; claws almost bifid. Wings hyaline ; costa and stigma 

 testaceous ; third cubital cellule nearly one-fourth longer than broad. 

 The anal segment is large and considerably developed above, where it 

 ends in a slope, as in the Luteus group ; the cerci are nearly as long as 

 the spurs. ? 



Length 2f lines. 



Allied to N. conjugatus, but is of a longer and broader 

 body form. The stigma is more uniformly coloured, 

 the third cubital cellule longer and nearly as broad at 

 the base as at the apex, the spurs are shorter, meta- 

 tarsus longer, and the apex of the tibia3 and tarsi are 

 not black, nor are the tibise whitish ; the cerci are 

 longer, and the sheath of the saw is not so black, nor 

 so hairy ; the labrum is longer, and the clypeus 

 entirely black. From N. subbifidus it is readily 

 known by its black clypeus, shorter antennae, testa- 

 ceous stigma, longer third cubital cellule, testaceous 

 tarsi and longer spurs. The colour, too, is paler, not 

 being so orange. 



An English specimen in Shuckard's collection. 



66. NEMATUS FEUTICUM. 



Nematus fruticum, Evers., Bull. Mosc., xx, 18 (1847) ; Andre, 



Species, i, 206 ; Cat.,* 24, 182. 

 ? __ analis, Ste., 111., vii, 35, 33. 



" Head and antennae totally black ; thorax also black, immaculate ; 

 abdomen above testaceous, with the base of all but the two apical 

 segments black above, and the two last and entire under surface rufo- 

 testaceous ; sternum and pleurse black ; legs with the coxae, trochanters, 

 and base of all the femora black ; the apex of the last and the entire 

 tibiae and tarsi bright rufo-testaceous. Wings hyaline, with the 

 nervures pitchy, and the costa and stigma bright, pale testaceous." 



Length 3-3i lines. 



