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HYMENOPTERA. 



4. Myrmosa unicolor. 



Myrmosa unicolor, Say, Nar. Exped. St. Peter's River, App. p. 66. 



Hab. Pennsylvania; Missouri. 



Genus 5. METHOCA. 



Methoca, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 268 (1805). 



Mutilla, Jurine, Hym. p. 266 (1807). 



Tengyra, Latr. Gen. Crust et Ins. iv. 116 J (1809). 



1. Methoca icHNEUMONOiDES. v,.^ 



Methoca ichneumonoides, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 269 $ . 



Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. p. 429. t. 69. f. 7 & 8. 



Curt. Brit. Ent. vii. t. 329 <? ? . 



Shuck. Foss. Hym. p. 36. 1. 



St. Farg. Hym. iii. 573. 1. t. 36. f. 2 J . 



Nyland. Ap. Boreal, p. 19, 1. 



Wesm. Hym. Fouis. Belg. p. 22. 

 Mutilla formicaria, Jurine, Hym. p. 266. t. 13. f. 49 $ . 

 Tengyra Sanvitali, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 116 c? . 



Van d. Lind. Obs. Hym. d'Eur. p. 283. 1. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 287. 



Hab. Europe. 



2. Methoca Poeyi. 



Methoca Pceyi, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. p. 430 S ? . 

 Hab. Cuba. 



3. Methoca Orientalis. 



Male. Length 7 lines.— Black, head coarsely punctured, the 

 base of the mandibles yellow, the clypeus and mandibles covered 

 with long cinereous pubescence; the entire insect is thinly 

 covered with similar pubescence, which is most dense on the sides 

 of the metathorax; the thorax strongly punctured, closely so 

 on the metathorax, which has a central abbreviated impressed 

 line at the base ; the anterior tibiae have a yellow stripe in front ; 

 the calcaria pale testaceous, the claws ferruginous ; wings fusco- 

 hy aline, the nervures black. Abdomen black, with a shght 

 metallic lustre, finely and distantly punctured, the margins of the 

 segments constricted, the extreme lateral margins rufo-piceous. 



Hab. Northern India. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



