﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xlii. 
  (1898), 
  No. 
  11. 
  17 
  

  

  punctured, 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  black 
  hair; 
  the 
  

   median 
  segment 
  has 
  the 
  hair 
  much 
  longer, 
  especially 
  at 
  

   the 
  base; 
  the 
  base 
  is 
  rounded, 
  the 
  apex 
  oblique 
  and 
  has 
  

   down 
  its 
  centre 
  a 
  keel 
  ; 
  reticulated, 
  the 
  reticulations 
  larger 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  scutellar 
  region 
  is 
  a 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  keel 
  ; 
  and, 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  at 
  

   the 
  top, 
  is 
  a 
  curved 
  scale-like 
  projection. 
  At 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  

   the 
  mesothorax 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  is 
  

   a 
  small, 
  projecting, 
  roundish 
  tubercle. 
  The 
  propleurae 
  

   rather 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  mesopleurae 
  not 
  much 
  

   excavated 
  ; 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining, 
  except 
  over 
  the 
  middle 
  

   coxae, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  punctured 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  

   half 
  is 
  a 
  black, 
  curved, 
  oblique 
  furrow; 
  the 
  metapleurae 
  

   coarsely 
  punctured 
  behind 
  the 
  oblique 
  furrow. 
  Legs 
  

   black, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  pale 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  tibial 
  spines 
  are 
  

   few 
  and 
  longish; 
  the 
  spurs 
  pale. 
  Abdomen 
  not 
  much 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  united 
  ; 
  a 
  mark 
  of 
  white 
  

   pubescence 
  on 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  segment, 
  which 
  is, 
  

   at 
  the 
  apex, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair, 
  forming 
  a 
  

   broad 
  belt; 
  the 
  penultimate 
  segment 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  

   white 
  hair; 
  the 
  pygidial 
  area 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  impunctate; 
  

   the 
  second 
  segment 
  is 
  strongly 
  punctured. 
  Petiole 
  beneath 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  piceous, 
  the 
  apical 
  parts 
  bluntly 
  keeled 
  ; 
  the 
  

   apex 
  itself 
  obliquely 
  pointed, 
  the 
  second 
  ventral 
  segment 
  

   coarsely 
  punctured, 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  white 
  

   hair 
  ; 
  a 
  reddish 
  transverse 
  band 
  before 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  

   third 
  and 
  following 
  segments 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  white 
  

   hair 
  ; 
  the 
  apices 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  segments 
  (including 
  the 
  last) 
  

   strongly 
  punctured. 
  

  

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   In 
  Bingham's 
  table 
  (l.c.,p. 
  57)this 
  species 
  comes 
  into 
  the 
  

  

  