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Eab. — Simla — September. 



Punc!^uration olose, distinct. Head a little wider than the thorax ; the 

 clypeus roundly convex, its apex transverse ; occiput transverse. Basal slope 

 of abdomen f unounded by a keel, the apices of the segments with narrow 

 bands of white pubescence on all of them, including the last ; the scopa white, 

 very slightly tinged with fulvous. The central part of the metanotum is very 

 smooth, bare and shining. 



Comes cluse to .1/. ^Mrvw/u, Cam, (Willanchr. Mem. xli, No. 4, 1&97, p. 135) 

 which may be known from it by the apex of the mandibles being rufous, with 

 the teelh much broader, less clearly separated, by the metanolal area having 

 the striai much stronger and more widely separated, more depiessed and 

 without a stout apical bjrdering keel ; the keel bordering the base of the 

 abdomen is stouter and much more d.stinct and the ist recurrent nervure is 

 nearer Ihs transverse cubital. Ihj other little species, e.g. M. culLenu, M. 

 punjaal lends and .1/. ainoui/ina have not the metanotal area striated. 



Mejach'de ieierotrichia, sp. nov. 



Black; ihe hair on the head, thorax and basal 2 segmen<s of abdomen 

 fulvous, that on tlie metanotum and base of abdomen paler, the hair on the 

 vertex mixed wiih black, the neutral Si.-opa fulvous, black laterally on the 

 basal 2 segments, black entiiely « n the others ; the hair on the kgs j ale lulvcus, 

 on the underside of the middle taisi rufous, on the hinder tarsi black. Wings 

 hyaline, their apex slightly iufuscated, the uervures black. $ . 

 Ltng h, 13 mm. 



Hab. — Simla — August. 



Face closely strongly, the clypeus more strongly, but not so closely, punctured, 

 the afex of the latter smooth, depressed in the middle and not quite tiai.s- 

 verse; being shallowiy incised. Mandibles bidentate, the apical Itoih longith 

 triangular, the subapical shorter, broadly lounded ; it is folkwtd Ly a licad 

 rounded swelling, witli a smiill depression in the centre at the apex ; tlie 

 puncLuration is close at the base below, more iciittered elsewhere. ALdcmen 

 closely punctured, the puncturation becoming closer and stionger ti.waicls the 

 apex ; the last segment large, depiessed towaids the ap(x ai.d wnh a ihcrt 

 longitudinal keel before the depresjiuu ; there are no dista.ct tian.sACise 

 furrows. Base ol metatarsus neaily as wide as the apex of tibiae. The 1st 

 abscissa of radius a little shorter than the ^nd. 



The ^ has the fore coxa) unarmed, the apical abdominal segment is brcadly 

 bilobate. 



In Bingham's system this species would come near M. bhuvunm, a much 

 larger species ("JU mm.) 



j]/p.ijaclu'e S' /ii/rel:CvLil(i, sp, nov, 



BUck ; the sarlace of the front, face and clypeus hidden by long white pubes- 

 cence, the wi.i.e pubescence on ihe \huia\ i< as long but not so dense, the 

 basal abdcin. mil scgmmts wah a hand oi wiiite depressed puLetctnce on 

 their apices, the basal segment ;having also longish white hair, the hair on the 



