﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliii. 
  (1899), 
  No. 
  3. 
  219 
  

  

  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; 
  coxis,trocJianteribusfemoribusque 
  

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

  

  L6ng. 
  13-14 
  mm. 
  

  

  A 
  larger 
  species 
  than 
  6". 
  trilineata, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  may 
  

   be 
  known 
  by 
  the 
  pleurae, 
  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. 
  Pleurae 
  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  is 
  obsolete 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. 
  

  

  