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and seventh in the male, interrupted ; superior margin of 

 the legs pitchy-black. 



Lipeurus quadripustulatus. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 293. Step. Cat. 

 pt. ii. p. 332. Burmeister Handbuch, ii. pt. ii. p. 434. 



Head oblong ; clypeus obtuse, with two small brown 

 spots in front, and a black one on each side, lateral margin 

 slightly sinuated, with an oblong black fascia before the 

 eyes, from which proceed two impressed lines uniting at 

 the base, with several oblique sulci on each side ; occiput 

 concave with a black margin ; eyes pale yellow, rather flat ; 

 antennae more than half the length of the head, the male 

 with the first joint very large, unequal, second short and 

 cylindrical, the third curved and acute, fourth and fifth 

 very minute, exterior margin black, in the female filiform 

 and slender, wholly of a pale yellow ; prothorax sub-conical, 

 with a central depressed line and two foveola at the anterior 

 angles ; metathorax wider than the head, quadrate, concave 

 and truncate before and behind, lateral margin sinuate, 

 pitchy-black, extending on the disk at six points so as to 

 leave a somewhat stellate figure in the centre ; abdomen 

 elongate ovate, the first seven segments with a pitchy-brown 

 transverse band, terminating on each side in a fulvous spot 

 surrounded with black, in the male the first, sixth, and 

 seventh are interrupted, rarely the whole ; legs pale yellow, 

 the anterior pair very short ; femora large, second and third 

 pair very long and slender, with the superior margin black ; 

 tibiae of the second pair finely serrated on the inner side ; 

 tarsi chestnut. Length $ If 2. 



This fine species, I have no doubt, is the 4-pustulatus of 

 Nitzsch and Burmeister, though I cannot think the name a 

 happy one, for if it is derived from the pale spots on the 

 lateral margin of the abdomen, there are seven on each side, 

 and if from the small spots on the anterior part of the head, 

 they are not sufficiently prominent to give it a specific appel- 



