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nervures black. Maxadibles with a longish triangular apical and 2 longish 

 bluntly rounded teeth. $. 

 Length, 14 mm. 



i5^a&.— Simla— May. 



Head as wide as the thorax, above closely . distinctly punctured ; the face 

 sparsely punctured in the centre, closely laterally, the clypeus somewhat strong- 

 ly punctured, with an irregular smooth line down the middle, the depressed 

 apex being also smooth, its centre projecting somewhat. Mandibles, except at 

 the apex, covered with longish punctures, which run into each other. The 

 thorax closely, distinctly punctured, the metanotum less strongly than the rest, 

 its area smooth, opaque. Abdomen closely, finely punctured, without distinct 

 transverse depressions. Base of hind metatarsus nearly as wide as the apex of 

 tibiae : the apex of 5th tarsal joint narrowly and the claws rufous. 



The pygidium is large, is more closely and distinctly punctured than the 

 other segments, is turned up at the apex and has no median impressed line. 

 The apices of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments are broadly, not deeply, de- 

 pressed. The femora are castaneous brown below. The sides of the 2nd and 

 following abdominal segments arefringed, next to the pollen brush, with long 

 black hair. Occiput slightly, broadly, roundly emarginate. Allied to M. con- 

 functa, Sm. 



Megacliile melanoneura, sp. nov- 



Black ; the pubescence on the head, mesonotum, upper part of mesopleuree 

 and base of abdomen, pale fulvous, on the rest of the body, including the 

 ventral surface, it is much paler, almost white, except on the outer edges of the 

 ventral surface, the last segment above and below and on the apices of the 

 2nd to 4th, where it is black ; the pubescence on the legs pale fulvous, reddish 

 on the underside of the metatarsi. Wings hyaline, the nervures black. 9 



Length, 16-17 mm. 



ITab. — Simla — jVfay and August. 



Mandibles with 3 short, broad blunt teeth, the apical longer and more sharply 

 pointed than the others and a shorter bluntly rounded inner one. Front 

 closely, the vertex more strongly and more widely punctured. Pro-and meso- 

 thorax closely punctured, the post-scutellum and metanotal area almost 

 smooth, the rest of the latter weakly punctured. The head is as wide as the 

 thorax in the 9, in the ^, a little wider than it. Abdomen closely, not very 

 strongly punctured; in the centre of the 2nd segment is a deep, slightly curved 

 furrow and there is a more indistinct one on the third. Shortly beyond the 

 base the hinder metatarsus is as wide as the apex of tibiae; the calcaria pale 

 fulvous. 



What Col. Nurse regards as the ^ of this species has the anterior tarsi greatly 

 dilated, white, the outer edge with a long, dense hair fringe, the inner side at 

 the base with a much shorter hair fringe, which is white above, white on the 

 inner, black on the lowerside below ; the fore tibiae are much dilated, white, 

 streaked with brown below; the teeth on the fore coxae are about four times 



