744 MR. R. E. TURNER ON 



puncturetl; apical dorsal segment densely clothed with long fulvous 

 hairs. 



Black ; mandibles at the base, antennpe, and legs fei-ruginous : 

 an interrupted band on the posterior margin of the prouotum, a 

 spot on the mesonotum, one at the base of the median segment 

 and another at each of the posterior angles, and an intei'rupted 

 band on the four basal doisal segments, more bioadly interrupted 

 on the second than on the other segments, yellow. Wings very 

 pale flavo-hyaline, nervures ferruginous, 



cf . Third abscissa of the radius half as long again as the second, 

 which is about equal to the fourth and twice as long as the first ; 

 first recurrent nervure received at or a little beyond the middle 

 of the second cubital cell, second at one-third from the base of the 

 third cubital cell. Tarsal ungues bifid ; hind tibife serrate on the 

 outer margin. Antennae short and stout, tapeiing to the apex ; 

 pronotum rounded anteriorly ; first abdominal segment a little 

 longer than the breadth at the apex, the apical dorsal margin of 

 the segment broadly rounded. Finely and closely punctured ; 

 abdomen finely shagreened. 



Black ; mandibles, clypeus, scape beneath, posterior margin of 

 the pronotum broadly, a spot on the mesonotum, one on the 

 scutellum, another on the postscutellum, and the greater part of 

 the tibife and tarsi yellow. "Wings hyaline, nervures fuscous. 



Length, 5 13-16 mm., (5 12-14 mm. 



Hah. S. Brazil ; Rio Grande do Sul. 



As I have noticed before, the anteun?e in the t5^peof antennata 

 are a little shorter and stouter than in the males sent with jheringi. 

 This diflTerence may possibly prove to be specific, but I do not think 

 it is. 



*31. Anthobosca erytiiropyga Burm. 



Myzhie erytliro'pyga Burm, Stett. ent. Zeit, xxxvii. p. 169 

 (1876), $ c?. 



Anthobosca erythrojjjjga Turn. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 83 

 (1908). 



Cosila erythropyga Br^thes, Ann. Mus. Buen. Aires, xx. p. 256 

 (1910). 



I have not seen this species. Schrottky suggests that it is 

 identical with A. jheringi Sauss,, but Burmeister's desci'iption 

 gives the legs of the male as red, of the female black, and the five 

 basal abdominal segments in both sexes with lateral yellow sjjots, 

 whereas in jheringi the four basal segments are banded with yellow 

 and the legs i-ed in the female, and the male has the abdomen 

 without yellow marks and the legs yellow and black. I do not 

 think there is sufficient ground for consideiing the two to be 

 identical, especially as Schrottky had not seen specimens of 

 jheringi. 



