May, '03] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Shining black ; face, part of legs, ventral abdominal segments, basal 

 half of wings, ring around antennae and scutellum yellow ; remainder of 

 wings fuscous. Length 11-12 mm. 



9 Head shining black, face below antennae, a short arc above and 

 behind each eye, mouth parts except tips of mandibles brownish yellow, 

 a deeply impressed brown pit and groove on each side of face below the 

 eyes ; first three or four joints of antennae brown, next thirteen yellow, 

 and remainder black ; clypeus shallowly emarginate ; the labium is pro- 

 longed into a long tube, somewhat similar to the structure of the Bom- 

 bidcF; it is in the female specimen split in half apically. and is long enough 

 to reach the insertion of legs. Head sessile, mesothorax dome-shaped, 



prominent ; thorax entirely polished 

 black, roughened, epimeron somewhat 

 angled carinate on the lower part of its 

 anterior angle ; mesonotum, without 

 parapsidal furrows ; a short oblong 

 groove or pit on the central posterior 

 portion of epimeron ; a fine sparse 

 brown pubescence on the anterior 

 portion of mesothorax the sides of the 

 thorax about the edges of each sclerite, 

 where also a few punctures are mostly 

 found; scutellum gibbous, yellow; pro- 

 podeum black, polished, not carinate, 

 spiracle on each side thereof circular ; 

 wings fuscous, nervures brown, but to- 

 gether with entire wing golden yellow 

 at base, yellow color extending to near 

 the apex of the cubito-di'^coidal cell 

 and in the marginal to the apex of the 

 stigma, which is long and narrow ; are- 

 olet large, trapezoidal, second trans- 

 verse cubital nervure convexly curved; 

 cubitus without a stump of vein, but strongly angled half way between 

 the discoidal and first transverse cubital nervures ; a white spot on cubitus 

 between the angle and the first transverse cubital, one on second trans- 

 verse cubital and two on second recurrent nervure just below cubitus, 

 legs black, tibiae and tarsi yellow, posterior tibiae dark at apex, posterior 

 femora extending slightly beyond the tip of the abdomen ; posterior and 

 middle tibiae with two apical spurs, in middle legs the longer spur is about 

 equal to the second tarsal joint, in the posterior equal to third and fourth 

 together ; first joint of posterior tarsi longer than second, third and fourth 

 together, second slightly shorter than third and fourth together. Abdo- 

 men black, sessile, flattened laterally, broadly truncate at apex, apex of 

 first dorsal and the fourth anterior ventral segments , yellow ; ovipositor 



