258 ALLOTEIA BRACHYPTERA. 



30. ALLOTRIA PIOEOMACTJLATA. 

 PL XVII, fig. 3. 



Allotria piceomaculata, Cam., Trans. Ent. Soc., 1883, p. 367. 



Head and thorax piceous ; abdomen black ; pleurae dark ferruginous ; 

 antennae black, the base testaceous ; legs yellow ; wings hyaline, ner- 

 vures fuscous ; radial cellule twice as long as broad ; cubitus extending 

 beyond the middle. Antennae longer than the body, not much thickened 

 towards the apex ; the third joint nearly twice the length of fourth. 



Length 1 mm. 



A somewhat larger species than caledonica, with 

 which it agrees in the coloration of the head and 

 thorax, except that the head has the vertex darker; 

 the antennaB are longer and stouter, and have the apical 

 eight joints dark fuscous, the basal being clear yellow ; 

 the legs are also clear yellow, the abdomen is reddish 

 only at the extreme base, and the radial cellule is more 

 elongated. 



Rare. Dumfries. 



2, Wings abbreviated. 



31. ALLOTRIA BBAOHYPTERA. 

 PL XV, fig. 2. 



Xystus brachypterus, Htg., Germ. Zeit., ii, 200. 

 Allotria brachyptera, Gir., Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x. } 131 ; 

 Thorns., Oef., xviii, 410. 



Black ; the thorax inclining to piceous, the head reddish-testaceous, 

 castaneous on vertex ; antennae and legs yellowish, tinged with testa- 

 ceous, the former sometimes infuscated towards the apex ; tips of tarsi 

 black. Wings hyaline, abbreviated, seldom reaching before the apex 

 of the abdomen, the nervures fuscous ; radial cellule short, the first 

 abscissa of radius about three-fourths of the length of the second, which 

 is but slightly curved; fringe minute. 



The <J ^ as tne antennae longer than the body ; the fourth and fifth 

 joints are curved. 



Length | 1 mm. 



The thorax varies from pure black through piceous 

 to testaceous. 



