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crown, before and behind the eyes a large black spot ; underside 
wholly ochreous. Ante7in<e jeWow -brown ; 1st joint piceous at base 
and apex, 2nd at the apex only, 3rd and 4th joints darker than the 
others. Hi/es and ocelli brown or piceous. Sostrum yellow-brown, 
a line on the outer side of the 2nd joint, and the apex of the 4th 
pitchy-black. 
Thorax — Pronotum with fine, short, yellowish pubescence, especially 
on the sides, convex, on the first two-thirds gradually, on the 
remainder suddenly widened ; down the middle a black line, broad 
on the narrow part, slender on the wide portion, on which also are 
sometimes two indistinct fuscous streaks or clouds at each side of 
the central line, but more often these are wanting ; sides of the 
anterior portion, except the extreme margin, black. Scutellmn 
black, with a large wedge-shaped ochreous spot on each side. 
Elytra pale ochreous, when developed as long as the abdomen ; 
Gorium with the nerves pale, more or less shaded with fuscous ; 
Membrane with the nerves fuscous. "When the elytra are not 
fully developed, as is generally the case, they reach less than half 
the length of the abdomen, both the corium and membrane being 
present, but abbreviated. In this state the colour is darker than 
in fully-developed elytra. Sternum black in the middle and on 
the sides, but on the latter the colour is interrupted with ochreous 
on the presternum posteriorly. Leffs very finely pubescent, 
ochreous or light brownish, unicolorous ; tJiiglis, inwardly on the 
1st and 2nd pairs, with fine transverse black lines and an indis- 
tinct row of dots, on the 3rd pair two rows of black dots ; tarsi 
ochr-eous, the joints at the apex pitchy-black, sometimes the 1st 
and 2nd joints of the 3rd pair entirely blackish ; claws black. 
Abdomen — above black, or broadly reddish down the middle, clothed with 
very fine, short, silky, yellowish pubescence ; beneath, ochreous- 
brown, smooth, shining, black or fuscous in the middle and on the 
sides. Connexivum pale ochreous, narrow in the ^ , wide in the ? , 
on the underside at times a longitudinal reddish streak. Genital 
segments in the (^ , form a truncate apex by reason of the large 
falcate processes ; in the ? the apex is rounded ofj. to a small obtuse 
point. Length 3^ — 4 lines. 
Differs from N. pilosulus in the lighter colour, in the absence of 
the paleness on the anterior margin of the corium, in the elytra being- 
usually short, in the legs being unicolorous, in the pilosity of the upper 
surface of the abdomen, and in the form of the processes of the genital 
segments, besides other minor characters. 
