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Bassus pulchellus. 

 Abdomine tricolore ; segmentis intermediis rufo et viride 

 marginatis ; pedibus testaceis aut pallide fulvis ; coxis et 

 trochanteribus albo-flavis, illis posticis subtus macula nigrd; 

 femoribus posticis fulvis, subtus basi summo fuscis ; tarsis 

 obscuris ; scutello, picturis thoracis et pectoris flavis ; facie, 

 genis et articulo P antennarum subtus flavis, sequentibus 

 testaceis. 

 Long. 2^—3 lin. 



Statura et proportio omnino B. ExsiiHantis, Grav. 

 Head — mouth, face and cheeks yellow ; apex of mandibles 

 slightly ferruginous. Antennce filiform, shorter than the body ; 

 1st joint beneath yellow, the remainder testaceous. Tliorax 

 gibbous, a hooked broad line before, a dot at the base, a line 

 below the wings, a spot below the scutellum, a longitudinal line 

 between the first and second pair of coxse, another encircling the 

 breast, yellow. Scutellum yellow. Wings hyaline ; stignaa pale 

 cloudy ; scales yellow. Legs pale yellow ; hinder femora dilute- 

 fulvous ; tarsi dusky, coxae and trochanters whitish yellow ; the 

 hinder coxae with a black spot beneath. Femora also at the 

 extreme base fuscous. Abdomen — 1st segment linear, finely punc- 

 tate, the remainder broader than the first, but equilateral ; 2nd 

 segment more or less black, its margin red ; 3rd red, sometimes 

 rather cloudy, its margin greenish ; the remainder black, their 

 margins glaucous. 



Note. — Closely allied to B. Exsultans. 



B. elegans ? . {S Grav. Ich. Eur. Vol. II. p. 313.) 

 Abdominis medio rufo; pedibus fulvis ; S coxis et trochanteribus 

 nigro flavoque pictis ; J coxis obscuro nigris fere badiis ; 

 tarsis posticis nigris $ et ? ; S facie flava, ? nigra ma- 

 cula rufa aut ferruginea; ^ picturis thoracis flavis; ^ et ? 

 scutelli margine apicali flava, interdum punctis duobus flavis ; 

 areola oblique rectangulari subsessili. 

 Long. 2|— 3 lin. 



Head — ^ mouth, face and cheeks yellow; ? face black, with 

 a central ferruginous or yellowish spot ; mouth pale. Antennce 

 — $ 1st joint beneath yellow ; $ dark brown entirely. Thorax — $ 

 a line before the wings, a smaller one beneath, a lateral spot on the 

 collar, the lateral suture between the prothorax and metathorax, 

 also a longitudinal line on each side of the breast, yellow ; $ a line 

 before the wings only, the rest of the thorax black. Scutellum — 



