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Show 1896.] HYMENOPTERA OF CEYLON. 427 170. MUTILLA SUBINTRANS, Eadoszkovsky. Mutilla subintrans, Badoszk. & Sich. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. 1867, 228, 62 2 i Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, v. (1892), 122, 75. 171. MUTILLA SOROR, Saussure. Mutilla soror, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867, 353, t. 8. f. 3; Badoszk. & Sich. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. 1867, 306, 3 $ ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, v. (1892), 122, 76. Habrouenne. 172. MUTILLA SIBYLLA, Smith. Mutilla sibylla, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. ii. (1858), 86, 11 $ Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Mosc. 1867, 22 ; Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. xi. (1867), 339, 47 ; Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, v. (1892) 122, 74. 173. MUTILLA TAPROBANiE, Cameron. Mutilla taprobanae, Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, v. (1892), 122, 81, & 125. Trincomalee (Yerbury coll.). 174. MUTILLA YERBURYI, Cameron. Mutilla yerburyi \ Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, v. (1892), 123, 87, & 135. Mahaagang (Yerbury coll.). Genus METHOCA, Latreille. 175. METHOCA NIGRA, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 4.) 8. L. 8-11 millim. Exp. 17-20 millim. Black and shining ; the wings broad, hyaline and iridescent, with the apical half faintly shaded with fuscous ; legs piceous, tarsi paler. Head about as broad as the thorax, closely and finely punctured ; mandibles black; clypeus much broader tban high, its anterior margin semicircular; antennas opaque black, thick and somewhat fusiform. Thorax: the pro- and mesonotum above finely and closely punctured, the metanotum smooth, posteriorly truncated, with three longitudinal short carinas running from its base to the edge of the truncation, from whence the lateral carinas are continued obliquely outwards to the sides of the metathorax; the wings hyaline, iridescent in certain lights, faintly shaded with light fuscous especially on the anterior wing beyond the basal nervure; legs piceous, the tarsi paler, the anterior tibiae and tarsi below testaceous. Abdomen shining, rather sparsely punctured above, and slightly 1 Either by a slip of the pen or through a printer's error, Col. Yerbury's name ia spelt " Yerburgh " all through M r . Cameron's paper, consequently this species stands as " Yerburghi " instead of " Yerburyi " in the paper. I have • restored the true spelling. |