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Lytarmes MACULIPENNIS, Sp. nov. 



Niger, brunneo-maculatus ; facie orbitisque oculorttni 

 flavis ; alis fttsco-hyalinis, macula stibstigmatali fumata ; 

 pedibiLS rufo-brunneis. ? . 



Long. 16 ; terebra 21 (?) mm. 



Antennse not quite so long as the body ; the scape 

 yellowish below, reddish above ; the base of the flagellum 

 ferruginous ; the apical part blackish. Head : the face 

 and clypeus, the inner orbits broadly to the ocelli, and the 

 outer more narrowly from near the top to the base of the 

 mandibles, yellow ; the face fuscous in the middle ; the 

 mandibles black, the palpi yellowish. The face punctured, 

 thickly covered with long, fuscous hair ; the inner orbits 

 above the antennse (the yellow part) are raised ; the front 

 is black, shining, and transversely striated ; the vertex 

 behind the ocelli and the occiput, except at the edges, 

 brownish. Thorax brownish, mottled with black, a broad 

 band on the pronotum, the tubercles, the scutellum, except 

 at the apex, and the scutellar keels, lemon-yellow. The 

 pronotum in the centre is black, shining, and roundly 

 incised. On the mesonotum there are three broad, black 

 lines, the middle one being the longer ; the scutellar 

 depression is black and shining. Scutellum punctured, 

 more finely and closely on the apex ; the postscutellum 

 is smooth and shining : broadly depressed in the middle 

 its apex rounded. Median segment smooth and shining 

 its middle at the base broadly, triangularly depressed 

 its base ferruginous, the middle lemon-yellow, the apex 

 black. Pleurae smooth and shining ; the lower part of 

 the mesopleurs roundly projecting. Mesosternum sha- 

 greened, thickly covered with fuscous hair ; the central 

 furrow blackish, closely transversely striated. The four 

 anterior coxae and trochanters and the tibiae in front are 

 more or less lemon-yellow ; the basal half of the hinder 



