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Head slightly wider than the thorax, closely strongly punctured, the face 

 smooth, shining and bare in the middle ; the clypeus not much wider than 

 long, a smooth, irregular line in the centre above, its apex transverse. Base 

 of mandibles thickly covered with depressed white pubescence ; shining and 

 bearing scattered punctures ; there is a testaceous space behind the teeth. Ex- 

 cept on the underside of the fore tarsi, where it is fulvous, the pubescence on 

 the legs is white ; the calcaria whitish. The back of abdomen is closely punc- 

 tured all over ; there are no distinct transverse furrows. The 2nd transverse 

 cubital nervure is not quite interstitial ; tegulas fuscous ; nervures black. 9- 



Comes near to M. liera, Bing. and 31. cJdorigaster, Cam. 



Megacldle lissopoda. sp. nov. 



Black, the hair on the head, upper part of thorax and the scopa, white, the 

 pubescence on the pleurae soot-coloured, the hair on the legs grey, that on the 

 underside of the fore metatarsus mixed with golden ; wings fuscous-hyaline to 

 the 2nd transverse cubital nervure, almost hyaline beyond it. Mandibles 

 bidentate, the upper tooth broad, rounded, projecting slightly beyond the lower, 

 which is almost transverse ; the 2 at their junction are separated by a depression; 

 the basal half of the mandibles closely punctured and opaque, the apical smooth 

 and shining. $ . 



Length 11 mm. 



" Bombay." 



Head and thorax closely, distinctly punctured. Base of hind tarsi less than 

 half the width of the apex of tibiae ; the spurs black, slender on apical half, 

 gradually narrowed to a sharp point. Head nearly as wide as the thorax. The 

 2nd transverse cubital nervure is almost interstitial. Underside of flagellum 

 piceous. The tarsi are rather long and slender. The transverse bands of white 

 pubescence on the dorsal abdominal segments are narrow, but distinct. The 

 punctures on the mesonotum run into transverse stria?. Face broadly roundly 

 convex. Clypeus short, its apex broad, transverse ; the front with a narrow 

 smooth keel between the antennae. 



In Bingham's arrangement this species comes near to M. cephalotus, Sm.; that 

 species from the description should be different, e. g. the mandibles are called 

 " long, narrow and curved " (no mention is made of the form or number of their 

 teeth) terms which certainly do not fit those of the present species, in which 

 they are broad both at the base and apex ; the head is " broader than the 

 thorax," while in lissojwda it is certainly not so. The colour of the wings is 

 not stated by Col. Bingham, but Smith (Cat. Hym. i, 179 J calls them sub- 

 fuscous, hyaline towards their base," the exact opposite being the case with the 

 species 1 have described above. 



MegachUe cathena, sp. nov. 



Black, the pubescence and ventral scopa white, the puncturation distinct and 

 close, strongest on the apex of the abdomen ; wings hyaline, the nervures and 

 stigma black, the 1st recurrent nervure received shortly behind. the middle of 

 the cellule, the 2nd near the apex, but clearly separated from the transverse 



