LEPTOSCELIS PICTUS. Niger, capitis lineâ dorsali, thoraceque crenulato
rufis, hoc anticè maculâ margineque postico nigris, femoribus gracilibus
denticulatis, abdomine supra cyaneo maculis marginalibus rufis. (Long.
Corp. 7½ lin.)
SYN. Cimex pictus. _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
Lygæus crenulatus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 4. 144. 33. _Syst. Rh._ 250. 11.
(Alydus cr.)
HABITAT: Antigua.
Head small and slender; red, striped with black. Eyes round and
projecting. Antennæ black, and nearly the length of the insect;
four-jointed. Thorax red, with black marks near the head, and another
near the abdomen; the sides lying high and angular. Scutellum black and
triangular. Hemelytra dark (almost black), the apical membrane being
rather less so than the basal portion. Wings almost transparent. Abdomen
above, blue along the centre, and red on the edges, indented with black;
beneath red and brown, as are also the breast and sides. Legs black.
Hinder thighs, having several spines on them. The proboscis extends to
about the middle of the abdomen.
This species is very closely allied to the insect figured in Plate 43, fig.
3.; nevertheless, their descriptions are placed very widely apart in the
Systema Rhyngotorum. They appear to form a good subgenus, nearly allied to
Hypselopus of Burmeister, which is confined to Africa.
{102}EUMENES ABDOMINALIS.
Plate XLV. fig. 2.
ORDER: Hymenoptera. SECTION: Diploptera. FAMILY: Vespidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. EUMENES, _Fabr. Latr._ Vespa, _Linn. Drury_.
EUMENES ABDOMINALIS. Fusco-fulva, antennis fuscis apice nigris, abdomine
pyriformi petiolo longo nigro apice fulvo, segmento sequenti nigricanti.
(Long. Corp. 10½ lin.)
SYN. Sphex abdominalis, _Drury, App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
Head brown yellow. Eyes black. Antennæ brown, but near their extremities
black, being the length of the thorax. Thorax brown yellow. Wings
membranaceous, yellowish, and almost transparent, being folded
longitudinally. Abdomen round, and longer than the thorax, brown yellow;
the first segment (exclusive of the peduncle) black, with several black
spots or streaks on the under side. It is attached to the thorax by a
curved peduncle, considerably less than itself, being black; but at the
tip yellow, and of the length of the thorax. Breast and sides black,
streaked with brown. Legs brown yellow, furnished with a spine at the
tips of the tibiæ, except the hinder ones, which have two.