390 JOURNAL, BOMBAY XATl'RAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



Mandibles smooth, shining, with some hair-bearing pits. The 

 antennas are rather long ; the joints of the funiculum are all longer 

 than broad, as in ^21. htrirrps (joints 3 and 4 twice as long as broad)- 

 Thorax long, narrow, strongly, and, for some distance, constricted 

 in the posterior portion of the mesonotum ; its dorsal profile is 

 strongly hollowed ; the depression is markedly long, and divides 

 the thorax exactly in two parts. Pro-mcsonotal suture obsolete. 

 Basal area of the metanotum convex, very narrow, compressed ; the 

 small sloping area entirely surrounded by a ridge. First knot of 

 pedicle compressed, rounded, higher behind than in front, nearly 

 three times as long as broad, slightly convex beneath but not toothed. 

 Second knot rounded, scarcely longer than broad, with a very small 

 tooth beneath, in front. Pygidium rather overhung by the penul- 

 timate abdominal segment, 



Whole insect smooth and very shiny, except the sloping area of 

 the metanotum, which has some very tine transverse wrinkles. 

 Half-erect, rather oblique, pale yellow, short, pointed hairs abundant 

 on the legs and antennae, less so on the body ; almost no pubescence. 



Whole insect a shining yellow, somewhat transparent ; faintly 

 reddish or brownish. 



$ Length 5 - 3 mm. The joints of the funiculum of the antennae are 

 all cylindrical and much longer than broad, except the 1st scapes, 

 thighs, and femoral rings depressed ( flattened ), but nevertheless 

 somewhat elongate; the scapes are triangular as in uli Fcce ( very 

 broad at the tip, narrow at the base) ; tibiae are similarly shaped, bnt 

 are only slightly flattened and less enlarged at the tip. The thighs 

 are as broad and flattened at the base as at the tip (in 2E. Fece they 

 are only flattened at the tip). The mandibles are rather long and 

 broad, near) v as broad near the tip as at the base, terminating in a blunt 

 point, smooth, shining, hairy, evenly and moderately curved. The 

 head is not much broader than long ; the eyes only occupy the 

 anterior two-third of its sides. The head is narrowed behind the eyes, 

 but its lateral edge is there distinct from the occipital edge. Frontal 

 riclges rather close together, rather closer together than the inner 

 ydge of the mandibles. The ocelli are not very large, and are not 

 placed on a special eminence. The face between the eyes seen from 

 above shtiw's as a verv Feeble transverse concavitv. The mesonotum 



