A STUDY OF THE GENUS MENISCUS

Extract

½. Length, 7.5 mm.; ovipositor, 7 mm. Black, polished; with orbital lines from occiput to middle of eyes in front, cheeks, clypeus, mandibles except tip, palpi, gula, cuneiform lines on mesonotum, tegulæ, spot in front, lines beneath extending irregularly back to posterior coxæ, sides of scutellum, line on lower pleauræ between anterior and middle coxæ, prosternum, anterior coxæ, middle and posterior coxæ except a black dash above and large spot inside, all the trochanters except black base, posterior tibiæ, posterior tibiæ except black annulus near base and black extremity, and tips of the abdominal segments beyond the first, yellowish-white. Remainder of legs fulvous, with a black spot at the base of all the femora and an annulus near the tip of the posterior femora; tarsi dusky.