188 NEMATUS LEUCOSTICTUS. 



92. NEMATUS LEUCOSTICTUS. 



Vol. 'I, PL V, fig. 3, Larva; Vol. II, PL III, fig, 6, <? ; 

 PL XXVI, fig. 2, Saw. 



Nematus leucostictus, Htg., Blattw., 202 ; Br. and Zad., Schr. 



Ges. Konig., xvi, pi. iii, f. 7 (lar.) ; 

 1. c., xxiv, 165 ; Andre, Species, 

 i, 162; Cat., 16,* 58. 



crassulus, Dbm. f Consp., No. 96; Thorns., Opusc., 



630, 37; Hym. Scand., i, 157, 

 90 ; Cam., P. N. H. S. alas., ii, 

 313 (lar.) ; Yoll., Tijd. Bnt., xix, 

 261, pi. xi, lar., &c. ; Br. and 

 Zad., Schr. Ges. Konig., xxiv, 

 164, Taf. Ill, f. 7 (lar.). 



Sharpi, Cam., E. M. M., xii, 191. 



erythropygus, Foer., Verh. pr. Rhein., xi, 309, pi. v, 



f. 23. 



Antennae shorter than the thorax and abdomen, moderately stout, the 

 third joint a little shorter than the fourth ; black, the apical joints 

 reddish beneath. Head a little narrower than the thorax, black, vertex 

 and palpi shining, finely punctured. Clypeus deeply notched, white, 

 labrum white, mandibles piceous. Thorax black, shining, almost bare, 

 faintly punctured, pronotum at the base and sides broadly, and tegulae, 

 white ; cenchri small. Abdomen short and broad, a little longer than 

 the head and thorax, the apex abruptly pointed. Cerci short, thin, 

 white, sheath shortly projecting, the apex mucronate, long, and densely 

 pilose. Legs whitish-testaceous, the coxae black at the base, femora 

 thick, coxae and trochanters white, the posterior tarsi shorter than 

 tibiae, the apex of the posterior tibiae and the tarsi blackish. Wings 

 hyaline, the costa and stigma thick, white, the stigma with a brownish 

 border on the lower side ; the third cubital cellule is twice as long as 

 broad, the second recurrent nervure is received about three-fourths the 

 length of the second transverse cubital nervure in front of the same. 



The <$ has the antennae reddish except at the base, thicker than in 

 the ? , the greater part of the two apical abdominal segments whitish. 



Length 2 2 lines. 



Ab. a. ? and cf . Eyes surrounded behind with 

 a browish ring. 



b. ? . Posterior tarsi and apex of tibiae scarcely 



darkened. 



c. ? . Apical ventral segments pale. 



d. ? . Antennae entirely black. 



e. ? . Seven apical joints of antennae brown 



beneath. 

 The short thick body, strongly built reddish femora 



