206 EUCOELA. HEPTOMA. 



3. Antennae with a seven-jointed club. 



Antennae with 7 -jointed club in ? ; in <$ the third joint enlarged 

 and thickened ; radial cellule small, closed, the first and second abscissae 

 of radius subequal; cubitus obsolete = Rhoptromeris, Foerster, Yerh. 

 z.-b. Ges. Wien, xix, 356. 



The sub-genus Heptamerus of Kleditoma agrees with 

 Rhopfoomeris in the antennas having a seven-jointed 

 club, but the incised wings, the open radial cellule, 

 with the first abscissa of radius considerably shorter 

 than the second, readily distinguishes it from Rhoptro- 

 meris. Nedinoptera has also seven- jointed clubbed 

 antennas, but the wings are abbreviated. 



13. EUOOELA HEPTOMA. 



PL XI, fig. 4, 3 ; fig. 5, ? . 



Cothonaspis clavipes, Htg., Germ. Zeit., iv, 357. 



heptomus, Htg., 1. c., ii, 201. 

 eucerus, Htg., Germ. Zeit.,, ii, 357. 



tristis, Htg., 1. c., iv, 415, 30. 



Eucoela heptomus, Gir., Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x, 143, 24. 



nodosa, Gir., 1. c., 146, 32. 



fovealis, Thorns., Oef., 1861, 403, 10. 



Black, shining ; the basal two or three joints of flagellum and legs 

 testaceous ; the base of coxae, a line on femora in the middle, and tips 

 of tarsi, blackish ; wings hyaline, longly ciliated, scarcely pilose ; the 

 nervures pale testaceous. Antennae as long as the thorax and abdomen 

 united; the third joint about one-half longer than the fourth; the 

 apical but little longer than the penultimate. Scutellum finely punc- 

 tured. Abdomen a little shorter than the thorax ; the hair-fringe 

 small, white. 



The $ has the anetnnae longer than the body, the fourth joint fully 

 one-half longer than the third, and considerably thickened ; the legs 

 vary in tint, and are usually much darker coloured than in the female. 



Length 1J mm. 



A variable species as regards the coloration of the 

 legs : in some species they are for the greater part 

 red ; in others the red is considerably suffused with 

 blackish. 



Common. I have taken it on the top of Ben Gyrvel, 

 Rannoch, at a height of 3000 feet. 



