﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xlii. 
  (1898), 
  No. 
  11. 
  25 
  

  

  albopilosa, 
  tegmentum 
  medianum 
  supra 
  albo-villosa. 
  Clypeus 
  

   pubescentia 
  argenteo-alba 
  adpressa. 
  Ocidorum 
  margines 
  

   interior 
  es 
  ad 
  verticem 
  longitudine 
  flagelli 
  articuli 
  2 
  dl 
  + 
  

   duarum 
  tertiarwn 
  3 
  tH 
  ad 
  clypeum 
  paidlulo 
  minus 
  approxi- 
  

   mati 
  S2int. 
  Scutellum 
  hand 
  convexum, 
  fere 
  deplanatum. 
  

   Post-scutelluw 
  non 
  sellce 
  instar 
  ut 
  in 
  Sph. 
  aurulento 
  

   impressum. 
  Area 
  dorsatis 
  segmenti 
  mediant 
  rngis 
  quinque 
  

   transverse 
  rugosa. 
  Petiolus 
  aliquantum 
  brevior 
  est 
  quam 
  

   in 
  Sph. 
  aurulento 
  F., 
  midto 
  brevior 
  quam 
  in 
  Sph. 
  pruinoso 
  

   G. 
  : 
  longitudine 
  antennarum 
  flagelli 
  articulo 
  secundo 
  

   aequalis; 
  paullulum 
  brevior 
  tarsi 
  postici 
  secuudi, 
  sedpaullulo 
  

   longior 
  tertio." 
  

  

  Long. 
  20 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ceylon. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  6". 
  pruinosus 
  and 
  6". 
  aurulentus. 
  

  

  ALYSON 
  RUFICOLLE, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Nigrum, 
  prothorace, 
  mesouoto 
  cum 
  scutello 
  mesopleuris- 
  

   que 
  rufls, 
  ore 
  flagelloque 
  antennarum 
  subtus 
  flavis 
  ; 
  alls 
  

   hyalinis, 
  nervis 
  fuscis. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Long, 
  fere 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Kandy, 
  Ceylon 
  ( 
  Yerbury). 
  

  

  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  a 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  orbits 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   from 
  near 
  the 
  top, 
  labrum, 
  clypeus, 
  mandibles, 
  and 
  

   palpi, 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  black 
  ; 
  front 
  and 
  

   vertex 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  black 
  hair 
  ; 
  

   the 
  clypeus 
  and 
  mandibles 
  with 
  much 
  longer 
  white 
  hair. 
  

   Pro- 
  and 
  meso-notum 
  closely, 
  but 
  not 
  strongly, 
  punctured; 
  

   the 
  prothorax 
  entirely, 
  except 
  a 
  black 
  mark 
  on 
  the 
  base 
  in 
  

   front, 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  with 
  the 
  scutellum 
  and 
  post- 
  

   scutellum 
  and 
  the 
  mesopleurat, 
  red 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  

   with 
  two 
  stout 
  converging 
  (but 
  not 
  uniting) 
  keels 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre, 
  inside 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  two 
  oblique 
  keels, 
  which 
  unite 
  

   to 
  them 
  shortly 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  region 
  ; 
  

   inside 
  of 
  these 
  there 
  are 
  some 
  stout 
  transverse 
  keels, 
  

  

  