M UMBRA CJDAi. 
95 
Scutellurn covered, tliougli the pronotuin is free and short; tegmina clouded ; 
hyaline and fulvous at their bases; neuration strong, brown at the apical parts ; legs 
stout, pilose, and banded with brown ; eyes prominent. 
This handsome species remarkably resembles a small bumble-bee in form, 
which it might be thought to mimic. 
Though treated as a synonym of the next species to be described, H. sanguiuosa 
is ranged separately in the National Collection, and therefore 1 figure it with a 
caution. 
HOPLOPHORA MONOGRAMM4. 
(Plate XIX. figs. 4, 4a, 4b, 4c.) 
II. sanguinosa, Fowler, l.c, p. 38; If. inonogramvia, Fowler, l.c. p. 38; 
II. monogrammci, Germ. l.c. p. 242. 
Pronotum bright ochreous-red, shining, thickly punctured ; with a single dark 
brown carina reaching from the base of the head to the middle of the dorsum ; 
pronotum seen from the back shield-shaped, with two small supra-humeral angles ; 
eyes prominent; head rather broad ; tegmina transparent ashy-grey, with marked 
brown neuration ; yellowish near the costa, and with some dark spots and stainings ; 
legs bright yellow ; second pair longer, banded with brown, hirsute, and with long 
black tarsi; third pair with smaller tarsi. 
Size, 12 x 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Mexico, Bogota. 
Hope Collection. 
Canon Fowler remarks that this species is very variable both as to size and colour. 
It occurs under at least three forms—brown, yellow, and reddish, which last he says 
is clearly that described by Fairmaire under the name Sanguinosa, and is marked by 
a black streak on the red pronotum. 
There are several specimens in the Hope collection labelled II. monogrcimma , Germ. 
They are larger and more dusky coloured than II. sanguinosa of my figure, but in 
general characters they otherwise agree with it. 
Expanse of wing, 20 x 8 mm. Size of body, 11x5 mm. 
This species and its varieties does not appear to be rare. 
Habitat. —Mexico, Talasco. 
July. 
Schumann’s Collection. 
Fig. 4 a represents a form which may be called 71. apforniis var. The marginal 
edge of the pronotum is sinuous. The colour ochreons, covered with reddish spots, 
