BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1171 
144:, Plat YURA venusta, sp.n. 
$. — Length of antennte 0'070 inch ... L77 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0’220 x 0'075 ... 5‘58xP89 
Size of body 0-220 x 0-045 ... 5-58x 8-13 
Antennm as long as the thorax ; joints of the scapus and first 
two or tlii-ee flagellar joints ochraceous ; remaining flagellar joints 
dusky brown. Hypostoma, proboscis and palpi deep brown. 
Front and vertex black. Thorax brown, sub-nitidous, with three 
broad longitudinal stripes of a darker brown, the lateral ones 
beginning immediately below the humeri ; intermediate stripe 
with an indistinct median line of very minute black hairs from the 
collare ; the paler lines between the stripes beset with tidple rows 
of short black hairs ; the three rows terminating in a dense tuft 
of long setaceous hair in front of the scutellum ; lateral margins, 
particularly postei-iorly, with long setaceous hairs similar to the 
last ; scutellum with a fringe of long black sette. Hal teres brown, 
with a dense minute pubescence, the base of the stem ochraceous. 
Abdomen deep brown, the segments indistinctly bordered poster- 
iorly with ochraceous-biown ; moderately covered with somewhat 
long black hairs ; lamellae of the ovipositor deep brown. Coxae 
sordid ochraceous, the intermediate and hind pairs tipped with 
brownish ; femora less sordid ochraceous, the intermediate and 
hind pairs deep brown at the base, extending almost one-third of 
their length ; tibiae and tarsi dusky brown, almost black. Spurs 
black. In the fore-legs the tibiae and metatarsal joint of about 
e<iual length. Wings as long as the body, pellucid with a yellow 
tint, deeper yellow Ijetween the second longitudinal vein and the 
costa ; an oblique brown .spot from the middle of the marginal cell 
to the base of the third sulnnai-ginal, ahso four brown spots round 
the apex of the wing, the first and large.st descending almost to the 
anterior branch of the third longitudinal from the tip of the co.stal 
and second longitudinal veins, the second in the third subinarginal 
cell, the fourth smaller, immediately below the third longitudinal 
vein in the first posterior cell, the fourth is lai-ger than the last, 
