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Show 246 MR. P. CAMERON O N [Mar. 19, Antennae black ; the last joint straight and oblique on the lower side. Head black ; closely and distinctly punctured ; the apex of the clypeus and the part between the antennae thickly covered with long white hair; the front bears also longish hair, and the vertex is covered wtih short pale hair. The base of the mandibles is closely and distinctly punctured ; the apical tooth is long, becomes gradually narrower towards the apex which is rounded, it is widely grooved in the middle. Thorax closely aud uniformly punctured; the pubescence is short, stiff, dense, and black above; on the sides it is longer and not quite so deeply black in colour. Legs black, the apical three joints of the fore tarsi brownish, and they are covered with pale hair; the hair on the middle pair is more rufous in tint; the posterior on the underside are thickly covered with stiff rufous pubescence. Wings uniformly fuscous-violaceous, the nervures black. The upper surface of the abdomen is covered, from the apex of the first segment, with depressed rufous pubescence; the ventral segments are fringed at the apex with pale fulvous hair. The apex of the last abdominal segment is entire ; in the middle is a deep, somewhat triangular, depression. The apex of the clypeus is transverse, it is not furrowed in the middle. Allied to M. bicolor Fabr. CRICOSA EMARGINATA Lep. This species is found in the Himalayas, China, India, and South Africa. NOMTA FULVIVENTRIS, Sp. 110V. Fulva ; mesonoto, scutello abclominisque dorso late nigris ; pedibus fulvis ; tibiis posticis late nigris ; alis hgalinis, costa stigmate-que nigris, nervis fuscis. 8 • Long. 10 mm. Scape of antennae and pedicle fulvous, sparsely covered with loug pale fulvous hair; the scape densely covered with a pale down, which gives it a whitish look. The front, face, and clypeus densely covered with fulvous pubescence, smooth and shining ; the clypeus is almost square, its apex is raised and transverse, in its centre is a narrow carina which does not reach to the apex. Mandibles pale fulvous, becoming gradually narrowed towards the apex, which is black. Thorax smooth and shining ; on the mesonotum is an indistinct central line, and a larger one on either side. Scutellum large, slightly but distinctly depressed in the centre; the post-scutellum furrowed in the middle. The metanotal area is clearly defined behind by a stout, curved keel; the edge behind it is also raised; inside it is irregularly longitudinally striated, almost reticulated; the centre is distinctly furrowed; the lower half of the sides is bounded by a stout keel. Behind the middle of the mesopleurae is a narrow, but distinct, oblique, slightly curved keel; the central furrow is wide but shallow and ends in a fovea in the middle. Wings almost hyaline; the costa and. stigma are black. |