Hjimpnoptpva. 257 



Length 10 mm. 



February. 



Head and upper part of the thorax covered with long fuscous 

 hair ; the apical slope of the metanotum witli white hair, the 

 pleurfe with white pubescence. Head rugoselj- punctured ; on the 

 front the punctures run into striations ; the eyes converge slightly 

 above ; the hind ocelli separated from the eyes by half the leno-th 

 of the 3rd antennal joint, which is about one fourth longer than 

 the next. Temples broad, roundly narrowed behind. Sides of 

 apex of clypeus broadly, roundly projecting. Upper half of 

 frontal keels roundly projecting outwardly. Labrum with a 

 pyriform depression in the centre ; the sides obliquely sloped ; the 

 narrowed end at the top. Pronotum as long as it is wide at the 

 apex, coarsely punctured, deeply furrowed in the centre. Meso- 

 notum and scutellum as strongly, but not so closely punctured the 

 scutellum smooth in the middle. The middle area of metanotum 

 not very closely, transversely striated ; the longitudinal central 

 keel reaches to the apex ; the 2nd area is closely and regularly 

 striated ; the Hrd has the keels widely separated, forming squarish 

 area?. The longitudinal keels are twisted ; the 2nd is roundly 

 curved and unites with the 3rd at the apex ; the apical slope is 

 irregularly areolated and striated. Pro- and mesopleurae coarsely 

 punctured : the meta- at the base almost smooth ; the middle 

 sparsely punctured, the apex reticulated. The basal 4 segments of 

 the abdomen closely, coarsely punctured, the apical brownish and 

 smooth. Apical part of 1st abdominal segment wider than long, 

 half the length of the 2nd ; the base of 2nd ventral segment 

 broadly roundly sloped, somewhat as in .4. novaroe. Cf. Kohl, 

 Ann. d.K.K. Hof Mus. V^IIL, Taf. XII, 39. The upper part of thJ 

 abdomen is somewhat as in A. yieoirnpica ^ Kohl, I.e. Taf. XI.,f. 10. 

 In Kohl's table the species would come in nedv A. c()nipn>ssiventris, 

 which may be known from it by the shorter basal segment of the 

 abdomen and by the 2nd and 3rd keels of the median segment not 

 uniting in a sharp point at the apex. 



Astata melanaria, sp. nov. 



Black, thickly covered with white hair ; tegulae and base of 

 fore tibiae yellowish white ; fore wings to the end of radial cellule 



