STIZUS GRANDIS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Segments of the abdomen, each with a yellow 

 band, and lateral blackish spot. 



SYNONYM. 



Stizus grandis. Nobis. Western Quarterly 

 Reporter, vol. ii. p. 77. 



description. 



Jlntennse black, the three basal joints rufous: 

 front and labrum yellowish : thorax with a yel- 

 lowish spot on the anterior angle, and first seg- 

 ment margined with yellowish: scutel ferrugi- 

 nous : wings ferruginous, dusky at tip : feet 

 ferruginous: tergum ferruginous, each segment 

 with a yellow band, and lateral, blackish, oblique, 

 sublinear spot ; venter with an obsolete margin on 

 the second segment, and obsolete lateral triangles 

 on the remaining segments, yellowish. 



Male. Head, thorax, base of the three or 

 four terminal, and of the abdominal segments. 



PLATE II. 



