New Species of the Genus Bassus. 217 



Bassus picitans. 

 Segmento secundo puncto lateral! obscuro-ferriigineo, pedibus 

 fulvis, coxis nigris ; $ orbitis oculorum internis et macula 

 faciei flavis ; ? ore, clypeo, et puncto faciali flavis, areola 

 oblique quadrata. 

 Long. 1| — 2 lin. 

 Rather smaller than B. pictus. 



Head — face with the internal orbits, a central spot, mandibles 

 and labrum, yellow ; ? mouth and a small central dot paler 

 yellow. Antennce filiform, longer than half the body ; 1st joint 

 beneath yellow. Thorax with a line before the wings, and a 

 narrower one under, yellow. Wings hyaline; stigma and base 

 pale ; areolet obliquely 4-angular. Legs — coxae and trochanters 

 black, their apex sometimes yellowish, or with a paler dot ; femora 

 fulvous beneath, more or less dusky towards the base in the $ , 

 extreme tip of hinder tibiae and the tarsi obscure. Abdomen — tlie 

 lateral margins of the 2nd segment with an obscure ferruginous 

 dot; 1st and 2nd segments opaque; the apex of $ very slightly 

 sub-compressed ; aculeus exserted, stout, short. 



Bassus scabrosus $ . 

 Mas. — Segmentorum marginibus tuberculatis ; segmento primo 

 lineis duabus elevatis, segmento 2° lineis tribus depressis ; 

 abdomine toto punctato, praesertim segmentis 1° et 2° ; 

 pedibus anterioribus flavis ; coxis et tarsis posticis nigris, 

 ^ femoribus rufis ; scutello, facie et picturis thoracis et pectoris 

 flavis ; areola petiolata. 

 Long. 4 lin. 



Head — face, mouth and cheeks, and a portion of the inner orbits 

 above the antennae, yellow. Antennce not so long as the body, 

 setaceous ; first joint beneath yellow ; the articulations towards 

 the base longish, and testaceous beneath, gradually darker towards 

 the apex. Thorax gibbous, a triangular patch before the wings, 

 below this a perpendicular one broadest at its base, a line below 

 the wings, a pectoral one behind the first pair of coxae extending 

 upwards, and two large spots before them on the lower part of the 

 collar ; a sutural line between the metathorax and mesothorax, 

 and a line below the scutellum, yellow. Scutellum yellow. Wings 

 smoky hyaline ; costa and stigma black, base yellow ; areola 

 triangular, petiolated ; the inferior nervure of the first cubital 

 cellule slightly arched, but not angulated. Legs — Anterior coxae 

 yellow ; femora pale fulvous : hinder coxae black ; apex of tro- 

 chanters yellow ; femora red ; all the tibiae pale fulvous, the apex 



