The Natural History of Sokotra and Abdel-Kuri; Being the Report Upon the Results of the Conjoint Expedition to These Islands in 1898-9... - William Robert Ogilvie-Grant

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... thorax; dull, thickly punctured, the rest of the body shining. Wings clear hyaline. Sokotra: Adho Dimellus (3000 ft., 18. II. 99); one specimen. A very distinct species. Stizus, Latrei/le. 18. Stizus Scutellaria, Kirby. (Plate xv. fig. 4.) Sthim soitel/arU, Kirby, Bull. Liverp. Muss., iii. p. 16 (1900). Length of body 19 mm.; length of anterior wings 14 mm. Female. Black, varied with yellow, and slightly with red. Head black above the antenna;; back of head, and tips of mandibles also black. Vertex with the inner orbits red, and with two slightly diverging yellow marks between; hinder orbits yellow, very widely so beneath, but ending in a detached dot above, at the level of the eyes. Antennae red, scape beneath, and face yellow, the latter clothed with a fine white pile; labrum somewhat tumid, reddish in the middle, the lower edge concave below. Thorax mostly black, pronotum red in front, and bordered with yellow behind. Mesonotum bordered with red on the sides; tegulse red; mesopectus black, clothed with whitish hair, and with two yellow spots, one behind the other, and the first largest, under the base of the fore-wings. Scutellum and post-scutellum, yellow; behind is a curve, broadest in the middle, on the median segment; beneath this, on each side, is a moderately short and broad red line. Abdomen with the first segment red above, bordered in front, and more narrowly behind, with black; a large yellow spot on each side. Segments 2-4 with broad yellow lateral bands, bordered before and behind, and broadly interrupted in the middle, with black; and bordered on the sides below with red; the median black space on the second segment is also marked with red on the sides and more broadly behind. Terminal segments mostly red above; fifth segment with a large o...