Vol. XXviii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2^1 



eye. Occipital crest and adjoining area pale, this pale area running 

 forward in a sharp point between the lateral ocelli. The pale area 

 just in front of the stripe from the lateral ocellus to the eye, ad- 

 joining the lateral ocellus, is usually bright j'cllow, paler than the dull 

 orange of other parts. Rear of head largely black, pale below and 

 adjoining the foramen. 



.Prothorax orange red; the anterior border narrowly indistinctly 

 brown, elsewhere slight, scarcely discernible traces of darker. Posterior 

 border of hind lobe broad and high, rounded, medianly broadly emar- 

 ginate. Propleuron similar in color to the pronotum, darker below. 



Thorax above vivid rust red ; mesepisternum with a longitudinal 

 median stripe about one-third the width of the sclerite, which in dried 

 material is scarcely evident or is indicated by a dull greenish or brown- 

 ish stripe, which in life is a vivid light greenish blue, in striking con- 

 trast to the surrounding red. Sides paler rust red, especially below 

 and behind; starting just behind the humeral suture and near its upper 

 end, a broad stripe runs directly down across sclerites to end on the third 

 coxae ; this stripe is like the stripe on the mesepisternum, evanescent, 

 and in dried material is variously indicated; in life it is a vivid green- 

 ish blue area, becoming yellowish on the metinfraepisternum, which 

 appears to have been haphazardly placed on the insect by an artist 

 who carelessly disregarded the boundaries of the sclerites ; behind this 

 stripe and parallel to it is a large pale yellowish area of indefinite ex- 

 tent which occupies the metepimeron, except its upper and lower ends, 

 and extends above onto the metepisternum. Beneath and coxae cream- 

 colored. 



Abdomen light brown above becoming progressively darker from 

 1-6; 3-7 more or less distinctly narrowly pale at base; 3-5 black at 

 apex; s-6 with a trace of a longitudinal middorsal line, scarcely or not 

 discernible on 3 and 4, plainer on 5 and 6; 6 black except at base as 

 noted; 7 subbasally black for one-fifth to one-half its length, the black 

 shading out posteriorly to yellow or orange; 8-10 yellow or orange 

 with much scattered bright red pigment in dried material. Seen from 

 the side i and 2 largely yellowish with some basal and apical blue or 

 green traces, the posterior border of each narrowly brown ; sides below 

 of 3-6 pale yellow, narrowest and not always evident on 6; on each seg- 

 ment this pale color connected with the pale basal rings, but not reach- 

 ing the apex, being terminated posteriorly by the apical black which 

 encircles each segment ; 7 broadly pale below the dorsal basal black, 

 this pale shading out posteriorly into the pale area which occupies the 

 entire apical portion of the segment ; 8-10 entirely yellow or bright red. 

 Superior appendages brown, inner and ventral surfaces more or less 

 red; inferiors yellowish red at base, shading out into bright red, the 

 extreme apex brown tipped. Ventral suture pale, about color of ad- 

 joining parts, in some cases darker on 6 and 7. 



