Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xliii. ( 1 899), No. 3. 9 



Hylotoma maculipennis, sp. nov. 



Caerulea, dense albopilosa ; antennis nigris ; alts 

 hyalinis, macula substigmatali violacea. ? . 



Long. 9 mm. 



Antennae black, the flagellum thickly covered with 

 short, stiff hairs ; the scape more densely with longer, paler 

 hair. Head smooth and shining ; the frontal fovea large, 

 smooth, deep behind shallow in front, and merging into 

 the face, not being clearly defined at the apex. The apex 

 of the clypeus is obliquely depressed at the point, where it 

 is slightly incised ; mandibles deeply grooved in the middle, 

 their lower side piceous ; the palpi blackish, thickly 

 covered with white hair. Thorax smooth and shining, the 

 pleurae and sternum thickly covered with white hair. The 

 prothorax above is sharply keeled at the base, the keel 

 being bordered behind by a furrow; in its centre behind is 

 a fovea. The parapsidal furrows are wide and deep; in 

 the middle at the base is a short, deep furrow; the basal 

 lobe is joined, at its apex, to the scutellum by a furrow. 

 The scutellum is strongly convex ; the apex has a more 

 abrupt slope than the base. Wings hyaline, the nervures 

 and stigma black ; between the stigma and the cubital 

 nervure is a fuscous cloud which occupies the whole of the 

 second cubital cellule and the base of the third, the part 

 of it in the latter being obliquely narrowed ; the second 

 cubital cellule at the top is a little shorter than the third, 

 below, if anything, longer than it; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received near the basal third, the second about 

 the same distance from the base of the third cellule. The 

 legs are thickly covered with short, white pubescence ; 

 that on the tarsi shorter, thicker and darker ; the claws are 

 rufous. Abdomen shining, almost bare. 



Allied to H.janthina Klug, but that species may be 

 known from it by the entire apex of the fore wings being 

 clouded, not a cloud under the stigma only. 



