320 Albany Museum Mecords. 



nietanotum closely, finely, distinetly punctured, except in the 

 centre nt the base. Pleura? almost smooth. Abdomen sparsely 

 punctured : the pj'gidium thickly covered with short, thick rufous 

 hair, except on the apex, which is rnfo-testaceous. Apex of 4 

 anterior and the outerside of the ])osterior tibiae thickly covered 

 with bright red, bristle-like hair ; the calcaria white. Clypeus 

 transverse, piceous, the centre distinctly projecting ; its apex not 

 (|uite transverse. The 1st recurrent nervure is received shortly 

 behind the middle : the 3rd transverse cubital nervure forms a 

 broad, rounded curve, without any obli(jue slope, 



Plcsia cruthronotn^ sp. nov. 



Black ; the prothorax and rnesonotum bright red ; the tarsi, 

 apex of middle tibiai and the greater part of the hind tibiee rufous : 

 a transverse white mark, wider than long on the sides of the 2nd, 

 3rd and 4th abdominal segments, white ; the mark on the 4:th 

 wider than on the others, reaching close to the centre of the seg- 

 ment. Wings hyaline, suffused with fuscous ; the stigma and 

 nervures black. Female. 



Length 11 — 12 mm. 



Head, except in the centre of the vertex, closely and strongly 

 punctured ; the face and clypeus smooth. Apex of pronotum and 

 apical two-thirds of mesonotum punctured, but not closely or 

 strongly ; the latter more sti'ongly than the former. Base and 

 centre of scutellum smooth, the rest with somewhat coarse, clearly 

 separared punctures ; in the centre is a curved, transverse white 

 line. Metanotum finely and closely punctured ; the triangular 

 basal area smooth. Apical segments of abdomen punctured ; tlie 

 pubescence tinged with fulvous: the pygidium piceous at the apex; 

 the pubescence black, mixed with shorter rufous bristles. 



Plesia inci.sa, sp. nov. 



Black, the cl,ypeus, mandibles, except at the apex, a line on 

 the apex of the frontal tubercles, palpi, a line on the apex of the 

 pronotum and narrow lines, dilated in the middle and on the 

 sides- except that on the Ist,^ — on the apex of the abdominal 

 segments, the 4 anterior legs below and the hind tarsi, below, pale 



