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areae at the base. Petiole long, slender, carinate on the 

 lower side; the ovipositior short. Scutellum not much 

 raised, slightly longer than its breadth, the apex distinctly 

 margined, rounded. 



Comes near to Charops, with which it agrees in wanting 

 the areolet, but that genus may be known from it by the 

 eyes being deeply emarginate, the scutellum depressed 

 and the antennae scarcely half the length of the body. 

 Apart from the absence of the areolet it comes near to 

 Campoplex, which may be known from it by the much 

 larger and more elongated spiracles. The spiracles are 

 more oval than in Limneria, and the median segment has 

 the areae more numerous and more distinct. 



BOSMINA SPINIPES, Sp. flOV. 



Nigra; scapo antennarum, pedibus abdomineque rufis, 

 tegulis, coxis anticis trochanteribusque flavis ; alis hyalinis, 

 nervis stiginateque fuscis. ?. 



Long. 8 mm. 



Scape of antennae sparsely covered with long, pale 

 hair ; the flagellum thickly covered with short, black hair. 

 The face and clypeus thickly covered with long, silvery 

 hair ; the base of the mandibles broadly, and the palpi 

 pallid yellow ; the base of the mandibles covered with 

 long, golden hair ; the vertex closely, the front more 

 strongly, punctured and keeled down the middle ; the 

 outer orbits covered with long, silvery pubescence. Thorax 

 entirely black ; the mesonotum closely punctured ; thickly 

 covered with a short, black pile ; the pleurae and median 

 segment thickly with longish, silvery hair. On the middle 

 of the propleurae are stout, curved, distinctly separated 

 keels; there is a striated space on the middle of the meso- 

 pleurae, the striae strong at the base, minute at the apex ; 

 the metapleurae are more strongly punctured than the 



