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sides ; the others are more or less black ; the ventral seg- 

 ments coloured like the dorsal. 



The wings vary in tint ; as does the amount of black 

 on the thorax, legs and abdomen. • 



SCALLAMA CRASSIPES, Sp. nov. 



Nigra; antennis rufis ; abdominis medio scutelloque 

 ferrugineis ; pedibus rufis; coxisjrochanteribusfemoribiisqiie 

 posterioribus nigris ; alis fusco-violaceis, stigmate nigro. $ . 



Long. 13-14 mm. 



A larger species than vS. trilineata, from which it ma}' 

 be known by the pleurse, meso- and meta-notum being 

 entirely black, and by the absence of the areolet. 



Antennae rufous, slightly darker towards the apex, 

 thickly covered with microscopic hair. Head black, the 

 face thickly covered with long, fulvous hair, the occiput 

 thickly with shorter, black hair ; the face strongly punc- 

 tured. Thorax shining ; the tegulae, scutellum and post- 

 scutellum rufous ; the mesonotum thickly covered with 

 fuscous, the scutellum with longer fulvous, hair ; the sides 

 of the metanotum with long, pale hair. Pleurse shining, 

 impunctate ; the mesopleurae broadly projecting. The 

 anterior legs rufo-fulvous, the middle darker, more rufous 

 in tint, their femora broadly infuscated at the sides; all 

 the coxae and trochanters black ; the hinder femora 

 black ; the hinder tibiae rufous on the basal half; the 

 apical infuscated ; the tarsi fuscous. Wings fulvous-smoky ; 

 the costa, stigma and nervures dark testaceous ; the 

 second transverse cubital nervure is obsolete ; the recurrent 

 nervure is received shortly in front of the transverse 

 cubital nervure. Abdomen dark rufous ; the basal two- 

 thirds of the petiole and the apical two segments black, 

 thickly covered with pale hair. 



