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Show 1901. | HYMENOPTEKA FROM NEW BRITAIN. 225 TENTHREDINID/E. SlNOCLIA VIOLACEIPENNIS, Sp. nOV. Carulea, nitida ; alts violaceis. § . Long. 8 mm. Antennae of a darker blue than the body, thickly covered with short, stiff, black pubescence; the third joint is,if anything, longer than the fourth. Head smooth and shining; thickly covered with short black pubescence, which is longer and thicker on the face than on the vertex ; the front is closely and minutely punctured ; above it bears two oblique foveae, the space between them being depressed ; in the centre below is a smaller oval one. The sutures on the vertex are wide and deep ; in the middle behind is a short deep furrow; bordering the inner side of the antennae is a smooth curved furrow. Apex of the clypeus closely punctured. Mandibles at the base closely rugose ; the apex broadly rufous. Thorax and abdomen smooth and shining ; the mesonotum thickly covered with short black hair. Cenchri large, white. Wings fuscous-violaceous ; the nervures and stigma black; the 2nd cubital cellule above is not quite half, below distinctly less than half, the length of the 3rd; the radial, the 2nd and 3rd transverse cubital, and the 2nd recurrent nervures at the top are largely bullated. Legs stout; the tibiae and tarsi are thickly covered with short, stiff, black hair; the patellae on the 4th joint are distinct; the calcaria short, curved ; the claws distinctly bifid. EVANIIDjE. MEGISCHUS VIOLACEIPENNIS, sp. nOV. Niger ; pedibus rufis; coxis, trochanteribus, femoribus posticis basique tibiarum posticarum nigris ; alis fusco-violaceis, nervis nigris. §. Long. 24 mm. Antennae black, slender. Front rugosely punctured above ; the sides above stoutly obliquely, the lower part transversely striated, the ocellar regiou irregularly reticulated, the keels below them mostly curved ; above the reticulated upper portion are four long curved keels, the vertex behind these is irregularly rugosely striated; the ocellar region is distinctly depressed; the three tubercles form a triangle. The base of the pronotum is smooth and shining; behind on the sides are two stout curved keels ; the rest of the pronotum is opaque and irregularly transversely striated. The base of the mesonotum is smooth and shining; the rest of it bears mostly large and deep punctures, except on a space on either side of the centre ; on the sides and base the punctures tend to become confluent. Scutellum somewhat triangular in shape, smooth, shining, and impunctate. Median segment closely, stoutly, irregularly punctured ; behind the punctures run into reticulations. Propleurae smooth and shining ; the meso- opaque, irregularly punctured, and striated : the meta- rugosely punctured. |