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General coloration grey. Fore coxse unicolorous, fore femora with three 
darker coloured bands on the upper side. Pronotum unicolorous, darker than 
elytra. Elytra with a whitish border along the fore margin of the costal area, 
interrupted by irregular brownish spots ; bases of radial veins pale ; a some- 
what darker not sharply defined transverse spot in the basal third, followed by 
a whitish area ; the second, larger and more defined whitish spot before the 
apex, followed by a smaller dark spot; veins darker than cellules, and the whole 
surface appears, therefore, sUghtly marmorated ; anal area brownish-viola- 
ceous, but not so dark as in other species, the colour fading backwards. Wings 
rather equally infumate throughout the whole surface, the basal part being 
scarcely more hyaline ; transverse venules pale ; apex with a common, for this 
genus white spot, encircled by brownish-violaceous colour. 
Length of body . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 mm. 
Width of head . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 
Length of pronotum . . . . . . . . . . 9,5 
„ metazona . . . . . . . . . . 6,5 
Maximal width of pronotum . . . . . . . . 3,25 
Minimal „ ,, ,, . . . . ■ . . . 2 
Length of fore coxae . . . . . . . . . . 7 
„ „ „ femora ... . . . . . . . . 9 
„ „ „ elytra 30 
„ „ „ wdngs 27 
„ „ hind femora .. .. .. .. 13 
>5 
„ tibiae 
14 
,, „ „ metatarsi . . . . . . . . 4,5 
The type is unique ; it has been taken by G. W. Bury at El-Kubar, S. W. 
Arabia (British Museum collection). 
This new species is easily recognised by its small size, very feebly armed hind 
metatarsus, not denticulated pronotum and the shape of supraanal plate. 
5. Fischeeia syeiaca, Sauss. 
1871. Fischeria hcetica, Ramb. var. syriaca, Saussure, Mem. Soc. Phys. 
Geneve, xxi, p. 109. 
1915. Fischeria festoe. Gigho-Tos., Bull. Soc. Entom. Ital., xhni, p. 22. 
Gigho-Tos, in description of his F. festce gives exactly the same differences 
of it from F. bcetica, as Saussure gives for var. syriaca ; both being of the same 
origin, it is obvious that they are identical. The same species (or only sub- 
species of bcetica, Ramb.), and not the typical bcetica, Ramb., populates all 
desert parts of S.W. and Central Asia, and all previous records of hcetica from 
those countries must be undoubtedly credited to syriam. 
Male of syriaca, of which only female has been described by Saussure and 
Giglio-Tos, differs well from bcetica by its larger dimensions, and especially 
by longer elytra which extend well beyond the apex of abdomen ; wings 
are scarcely shorter than elytra. Dimensions of a male from Mesopotamia 
are, as follows : — 
Length of body 
Width of head 
Length of pronotum 
„ metazona 
Maximal width of pronotum 
Minimal „ „ 
Length of fore coxae 
„ femora 
hind „ 
,, „ tibiae 
„ „ metatarsus 
elytra 
72mm. 
7.5 
18 
12 
5, 5 
3 
13 
17.5 
21 
25 
6, 5 
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