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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL IIISTOKV. 



[KIGHTII SKRIES.] 

 No. 88. APRIL 1915. 



XXX. — Descriptions and Records of Jiees. — LXVI. 

 By T. D. A. CocKEiiELL, University of Colorado. 



Fasijjfiae cyanea, sp. n. 



? . — Length about 11 ram., expanse \7'o. 

 Katlier robust, sliiiiiii<( dark bhie, with the knees, tibia?, 

 and tarsi briglit ferruj^inous, witli hair ol: the same colour ; 

 scape black, but the rather short and thick flagcUuni ferru- 

 ginous ; hair of head, thorax, abdomen, and basal part of 

 legs black, but at apex of abdomen, on each side of the 

 apical plate, ferruginous, contrasting with the tliick black 

 liair on fifth segment ; region ot" mouth with red hairs ; 

 lu'ad broad, front with long coarse hair ; mandibles simple, 

 truncate ; hibrum entire ; clypcus finely punctured, its 

 lower margin black ; fourth and fiftli antennal joints very 

 short; mcsotliorax shining, very finely punctured; scu- 

 tcllum with a longitudinal median impression ; area of meta- 

 thorax large, triangular, rough but glistening; thorax with 

 long hair, but the mcsotliorax (except anterior border) and 

 scutellum bare, whil(! l)encath the wings is a circular bare 

 area, which is blue, contrasting with the more lilac adjacent 

 parts ; tegulae dark rufous. Wings hyaline, faintly dusky, 

 the nervurcsand stigma bright amiier-colour ; b. n. meeting 

 t.-nu, the latter bent in the middle ; u[)per side of first 

 discoidal arched ; second s.m. very long, narrowed about 

 half al)ove, receiving first r. n, at a (listancc from Ijasc equ^l 

 Ann. tfc Mag. N. /list. Scr. S. Vol. \v. 2;J 



