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MESSRS. R, E. TURNER AND J. WATERSTON ON THE 



Labium pilosum, sp. n. (Text-fig. 5.) 



2 . Ferrnginea, fiilvo-pilosa ; an tennis, scapo articuloque tertio 

 Rubtiis iiavis, occipite, macula circa ocello, propleuris, scutello 

 lateribns snlcoqiie Ijasali, segmento mediano, femoribiis posticis, 

 tibiisqne posticis apice nigris ; tarsis posticis infuscatis ; capite, 

 mesopleuris, scutello, postscutello, pedibusque flavo-ochraceis ; alis 

 sordide hyalinis, venis fuscis. 



Long. 9 mm. 



$ . The whole insect, except the dorsal surface of the median 

 segment, sparsely clothed with pale fulvous hairs, which are 

 denser on the pleurae, legs, the sternites, and the vertex than else- 

 where. Labrum, clypeus, and face shining and sparsely punctured, 



Text-figure 5. 



Lah turn pilosum Turn. & Wtrst. In tlie front view the mandihles are partly 

 concealed hy the labrum. In the profile the chsetotaxy of vertex and 

 antenna is not shown. 



the clypeus quite smooth apically; face (text-fig. 5) much broader 

 than long, the groove separating it from the clypeus obsolete 

 (i. e., clypeus and face in the same plane). Occiput more closely 

 and strongly punctured, front almost smooth. Antennje stout, 

 ,32-jointed, scarcely as long as the head, thorax, and median 

 segment combined, the third joint as long as the fourth and fifth 

 combined, the fourth distinctly longer than the fifth. Mesonotum 

 shining, finely punctured, rather closely on the median lobe, much 

 more sparsely posteriorly and laterally; the notauli very short, only 

 visible anteriorly, a very faint indication of a longitudinal carina 



