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legs blackish, knees and hind tarsi yellowish, anterior tarsi annulated 

 with yellowish. Long. corp. 0.13. Long. al. 0.16. 



Very much resembling Notiph. uUginosa Hal. (which is identical 

 with Notipli. tarsata Stenh.), but its narrower face distinguishes 

 it from that and all the related European species. Palpi blackish. 

 Antennae entirely black ; front with yellowish-brown on black 

 ground. The same is the case with the upper side of the thorax, 

 which has no broad longitudinal stripes, but only a faint trace, often 

 indistinct, of five fine, brown longitudinal lines. The scutellum is 

 colored as the upper side of the thorax, but generally with a rather 

 lighter gray border and longitudinal line. Abdomen gray, with 

 broad brownish-black fasciae occupying more than the anterior half 

 of each segment, and being interrupted by a gray middle stripe ; the 

 last segment in the male is almost entirely black, and has a gray 

 middle stripe on its anterior half. Femora and tibiae black; the 

 knees and the extreme tips of the tibiae brownish-yellow ; the fore 

 tarsi black, having the innermost base of each joint yellowish ; 

 the posterior tarsi yellowish, with the tip brownish. Wings pel- 

 lucid brownish-gray, with brown veins ; the second segment of the 

 costal vein being nearly twice as long as the third. 



Hab. Middle States. (Osten-Sacken.) 



2. IV. "bella Loew. % and J . — Cinerea, antennis totis nigris, palpis 

 flavis, vitta thoracis utrinque laterali, pleurarum superiore, scutellique 

 margine laterali brunneis. 



Ashy-gray ; antennae entirely blackish, palpi yellow ; a longitudinal stripe 

 on each side of the upper side of the thorax, a longitudinal stripe on 

 the pleurae, and the lateral edge of the scutellum, brown. Long. corp. 

 0.14. Long. al. 0.17. 



Face yellowish. Eye-rings rather broad. Cheeks descending 

 considerably beneath the eyes. Antennae entirely blackish. Front 

 gray, viewed sideways rather whitish ; the divided black middle 

 stripe is more or less covered with thick light-gray dust, which is 

 sometimes of a yellowish tinge, sometimes more light-gray ; near the 

 lateral border [of the thorax? — 0. S.~] there is a broad, well-defined, 

 dark-brown longitudinal stripe. Such a stripe runs on the upper 

 part of the pleurae from the shoulder to near the base of the wing. 

 The brown color of the lateral border of the scutellum continues on 

 the posterior border of the thorax as a short beginning of a stripe. 

 Abdomen with four rows of long, triangular, blackish-brown spots, 



