﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  4, 
  51 
  

  

  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  scape 
  black 
  ; 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  golden 
  

   hairs 
  on 
  the 
  underside. 
  Head 
  shining, 
  sparsely 
  haired 
  ; 
  

   covered 
  with 
  large 
  distinctly 
  separated 
  punctures 
  ; 
  the 
  

   mandibles 
  ferruginous; 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  side 
  

   with 
  long 
  golden 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  teeth 
  are 
  black. 
  Pro- 
  and 
  

   meso-notum 
  with 
  scattered 
  punctures 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  apices; 
  

   the 
  scutellum 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  punctures 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  Median 
  

   segment 
  alutaceous; 
  the 
  three 
  keels 
  complete. 
  PropleurcE 
  

   alutaceous, 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  above 
  ; 
  the 
  mesopleuras 
  

   punctured, 
  alutaceous 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  ; 
  the 
  metapleura; 
  strio- 
  

   lated 
  throughout, 
  much 
  more 
  finely 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Legs 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  tibial 
  spines 
  pale 
  ; 
  

   the 
  four 
  anterior 
  tarsi 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  tibiae 
  behind 
  and 
  the 
  

   middle 
  tibite 
  entirely 
  ferruginous; 
  the 
  hinder 
  tarsi 
  ferru- 
  

   ginous; 
  the 
  calcaria 
  and 
  tarsal 
  spines 
  pale 
  fulvous. 
  

   Wings 
  hyaline, 
  suffused 
  with 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  the 
  nervures 
  

   fuscous; 
  the 
  stigma 
  black; 
  the 
  second 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  

   received 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  cellule. 
  Abdomen 
  

   shining, 
  sparsel}' 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  

   transverse 
  depression 
  on 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  petiole 
  closely 
  

   and 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  at 
  the 
  sides, 
  more 
  widel}' 
  and 
  

   sparsely 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  puncturing 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  

   segments 
  becomes 
  closer 
  and 
  coarser 
  towards 
  the 
  apical 
  ; 
  

   the 
  last 
  shining, 
  impunctate, 
  piceous 
  broadly 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  METHOCA. 
  

  

  Smith 
  described 
  two 
  Indian 
  species 
  of 
  Methoca, 
  under 
  

   the 
  same 
  name 
  — 
  orientalis 
  — 
  (Cat. 
  Hym. 
  III., 
  66) 
  from 
  

   Northern 
  India 
  and 
  another, 
  renamed 
  Smithii 
  by 
  Magretti 
  

   {Ann. 
  Mils. 
  Civ. 
  Genova, 
  xxxii., 
  p. 
  259), 
  taken 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Rothney 
  at 
  Barrackpore 
  {Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc., 
  1875, 
  p. 
  35). 
  

   Both 
  were 
  described 
  from 
  males; 
  and 
  represent, 
  so 
  far 
  

   as 
  can 
  be 
  judged 
  from 
  the 
  descriptions, 
  different 
  species. 
  

   The 
  undernoted 
  female 
  is, 
  I 
  should 
  say, 
  quite 
  distinct 
  

   from 
  either. 
  

  

  