280 !Mr. V. Canicvon o)i 



Parapsidal furrows distinct at tlie l)ase. Pronotuni tubercu- 

 late near the base. ScuteHuni stoutly keeled on the basal 

 half; the apical half with an oblique slope. Median segment 

 with one central basal and two lateral arese. Spiracles 

 elongate, narrow, rounded at the base and apex. Legs short, 

 slender ; the base of the fore tibia? incised ; the claws simple. 

 Areolet tive-angled, narrowed at the top ; the recurrent nervure 

 is received shortly beyond the middle; the transverse median 

 nervure is received in front of the transverse basal. Abdo- 

 men very long, slender, almost cylindrical, nearly three times 

 as long as the head and thorax united ; the apex of the 

 petiole dilated ; the large spiracles placed at its base ; there 

 is a distinct ventral fold on segments 2, 3, and 4, a less distinct 

 one on 5 and 6; the sheaths of the ovipositor project; there 

 are seven dorsal segments. The labrum is small and projects 

 slightly. 



This genus belongs to the Oxypygi, as is shown by the 

 presence of the ventral fold and by the pointed apex of the 

 abdomen. It is easily distinguished from any of the known 

 Joppina by the short dilated antennse and by the very long, 

 narrow, almost cylindrical abdomen, tuberculated pronotum, 

 and keeled scutellum. 



Leptojoppa erythrothorax, sp. n. 



Capita nigro, albo-maculato ; thorace, pedibus anterioribus, cosis 

 trochanteribusque posticis rufis ; antennis nigris, medio albo- 

 annulato ; abdomine caeruleo ; alis fusco-hyalinis. 5 . 



Loug. 24 miri. 



Antennte thickened and compressed beyond the middle; 

 the apex gradually and distinctly narrowed ; the sides and 

 lower part of the five or six joints beyond the middle white ; 

 the scape finely and not very distinctly punctured, sparsely 

 covered with short hair ; a white somewhat conical mark in 

 the middle at the base. The face and clypeus, the inner 

 orbits (narrow below, wider above) to near the hinder ocelli, a 

 somewliat triangular mark touching the eyes shortly behind 

 the ocelli, a large mark on the lower orbits, narrow above, 

 broad below, and reaching near to the base of the ocelli and 

 the palpi, yellow. Face and clypeus strongly, uniformly, but 

 not very closely punctured. Mandibles to near the teeth 

 closely and rather strongly punctured; the two teeth very 

 large, the upper much larger and more sharply pointed than 

 the lower, which diverges downwards. Thorax rufo-ferru- 

 ginous, except for a small yellow mark on either side of the 

 pronotum and a slightly- larger and longer one under the 



