342 CATALOGUE OF 



86. Strachia hamata. 



Pallide lulea, nitens, aspere punctata; caput sirigis duabtis anticis 

 fasciaque pnslica cyaneAs; antennm niyra, graviles, corporis diinidio 

 non longiores, articulo lo pallide luleo, 2o piceo snblus pallide luteo, 

 Ao basi pallide luteo; thorax inaculis duabus cijaneis Iransversis sub- 

 quadratis ; scutellum purpureo-cyaneum ; pectus purpureo-cyaneo 

 ocloguitatum ; venter e maculis purpureo-cyaneis quadrivittatus ; 

 femora cyuneo unimaculala ; tibice supra cyanecB ; alee anticcc pur- 

 purea- cyaiiecp, litura rufa kamata. Var. /3. — Alee anticce villa 

 cruciata pallide lutea. 



Pale luteous, elliptical, shining, roughly punctured. Head with an 

 irregular blue band on the hind border and with a little blue streak on each 

 of the lateral lobes; sides hardly reflexed : lobes of equal length ; middle 

 liil)e mostly smooth. Eyes prominent. Rostrum extending a little beyond 

 the hind cox^-e. Antennae black, slender, about half the lencith of the 

 body; first joint pale luteous, not extending to the front of the head; 

 second piceous, pale luteous iieneaih, much shorter than the third; fourth 

 pale luteous at the base, a little longer than the third and than the fifth. 

 Thorax with a transverse blue subquadrate spot on each side of the disk ; 

 sides slightly reflexed ; hind angles rounded. Scutellum purplish blue, 

 extending to the angle of the corium. Pectus with four bluish purple spots 

 on each side. Abdomen beneath with four rows of bluish purple spots. 

 Legs stout; femora with a blue spot beyond the middle; tibiae blue and 

 furrowed above. Fore wings purplish blue, with a broad red reflexed 

 streak in the disk; membrane black. Var. [3. — Scutellum with a cruciform 

 pale luteous stripe. Length of the body 7 lines. 



a, b. New Guinea. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



87. Stkachia saturata. 



Fulva, lata, aspere punctata ; caput apud marginem poslicum viridi- nigrum, 

 lateribus vix rejlexis ; antennce nigrcc, graciles, corporis diinidio 

 non longiores, articulo lo fulvo,2o apice fulvo, Sofulvo apice nigra, 

 Ao basi fulvo ; thorax maculis duabus laleralibus maxiinis viridi- 

 nigris, spatio poslico rufescente ; scutellum basi vitlisque duabus 

 lanceotatis viridi-nigris ; pectus subcarinatum ; abdomen dorso nigra, 

 fasciis quatuor ventralibtis lale interruptis maculisque duabus sub- 

 apicalibus viridi-nigris; alee anticce margine poslico vittaque sub- 

 costali viridi-nigris, membrana nigricante. 



Tawny, broad, elliptical, roughly punctured. Head irregularly greenish 

 black along the hind border; sides very slightly reflfxed ; lobes of equal 

 length. Rostrum extending lo the hind coxae. Antennte black, slender, 

 about half the length of the body; fir.>-t joint tawny, not extending to the 

 front of the head; second very much longer than the third, tawny 

 towards the tip; third tawny, black tovvanls the tip; fourth much 

 longer than the third, tawny at the base ; tilth a little shorter than the 

 fourth. Thorax with two very large greenish black spots, which are 

 nearly contiguous; a large anterior callus ou each side; sides slightly 

 reflexed; space along the hind bolder reddish. Scutellum greeni>h black 

 at the base, with two lanceolate greenish bhuk strijies which extend to 



