302 AJlxniji Mi(si'i(iii Hemrds. 



strongly transversely striated. Mandibles deeply furrowed on 

 the lower side, and tliei-e is a shorter, narrowei-, less distinct one 

 on the upper side. The 2nd cubital cellule is shorter than its 

 width along the cubitus ; the pedicle is longer than the 2nd 

 transverse cubital nervure ; the 1st recurrent nervure is 

 interstitial with the 2nd transverse cubital ; the 2nd is received 

 shortly beyond the middle of the cellule ; the apex of the radius 

 is I'oundly dilated outwardly on the lower part. Hair on head, 

 thorax and legs long, black and stiff except on the tarsi ; the 

 calcaria white ; the fore tarsi, inside and out, bearing long, stout 

 spines. Antennal scape thickly covered with longish stiff hair ; 

 the basal 2 joints of flagellum narrowed at the base ; the 1st 

 roundly dilated, slightly shorter than the 2nd. The 1st abdominal 

 segment has a distinct nairowed, longer than wide, petiole on the 

 base ; there is a narrow, but distinct, transverse furrow near the 

 apex of the basal third of the 2nd and 3rd segments. Pleurae 

 strongly, deeply but not closely punctui*ed, each puncture having 

 a hair. Hind ocelli sepai*ated from each other by a slightly less 

 distance than they are from the eyes. Occiput broadly rounded, 

 not transverse. On the enner side of the top of the eyes is a 

 deep, longish fovea bearing longish hairs. 



This is a broader, more robust, species than any I have seen. 

 In this respect it somewhat resembles M. Klugii, West., which I 

 only know from Smith's figure (Cat. Hym. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii, 

 f. H.) In the figure the parapsidal funows are shown only on 

 the apical half, the scutelluni is shortei than the mesonotum, in 

 my species it is longer than it ; the scutellum in Kluyii is broader 

 than long, in my species it is nearly as long as its width at the 

 base ; and the apex of the metanotum is transverse, not incised 

 as in Smith's figure of Klugii. In it, too, the ocelli are placed 

 considerably nearer the eyes, fi'om which they are separated by 

 about one half the distance they are from each other. 



