﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xiii. 
  (1898), 
  No. 
  11. 
  6 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  obscure 
  brownish 
  

   beneath, 
  bare; 
  the 
  scape 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  long, 
  white 
  hairs. 
  

   Face 
  elongate 
  ; 
  keeled 
  down 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  

   closely 
  longitudinally 
  striated 
  from 
  the 
  antenna; 
  to 
  the 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus; 
  the 
  labrum 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  fringed 
  

   at 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  long, 
  golden 
  hair. 
  Mandibles 
  entirely 
  

   black 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  with 
  some 
  long, 
  white 
  hairs. 
  Front 
  and 
  

   vertex 
  closely 
  punctured; 
  the 
  sides, 
  behind 
  the 
  antenna;, 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  pale 
  golden 
  hair. 
  Mesonotum 
  

   alutaceous, 
  closely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  an 
  indistinct 
  furrow 
  down 
  

   the 
  sides; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  punctured 
  like 
  the 
  mesonotum, 
  

   slightly 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Post-scutellum 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  pubescence. 
  The 
  basal 
  area 
  on 
  

   the 
  median 
  segment 
  extending 
  from 
  side 
  to 
  side 
  ; 
  sharply 
  

   keeled 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  apex; 
  irregularly 
  longitudinally 
  strio- 
  

   lated; 
  the 
  segments 
  from 
  the 
  area 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   long, 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hair, 
  and 
  bearing 
  large 
  shallow 
  punc- 
  

   tures. 
  Pleura; 
  shagreened 
  ; 
  the 
  mesopleura; 
  punctured, 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  pale 
  fulvous 
  hair. 
  Legs 
  entirely 
  

   black, 
  except 
  the 
  claws, 
  which 
  are 
  piceous 
  ; 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  pale 
  pubescence. 
  Wings 
  fuscous, 
  tinged 
  with 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  

   the 
  costa 
  and 
  stigma 
  black; 
  the 
  nervures 
  fuscous; 
  the 
  

   second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  hardly 
  narrower 
  at 
  top 
  than 
  at 
  

   bottom 
  ; 
  at 
  top 
  slightly 
  more 
  than 
  one-half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  

   the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  received 
  

   quite 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  transverse 
  cubital. 
  Abdomen 
  shining, 
  

   very 
  minutely 
  punctured; 
  all 
  the 
  segments 
  with 
  a 
  smooth 
  

   belt 
  of 
  purple 
  at 
  their 
  apices 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  petiole 
  

   covered 
  with 
  longish, 
  pale 
  golden 
  hair; 
  the 
  others 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  black 
  hair. 
  Ventral 
  

   segments 
  obscure 
  brownish 
  ; 
  shining, 
  the 
  apices 
  of 
  the 
  

   segments 
  pale. 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  distinct 
  species, 
  easily 
  separated 
  by 
  the 
  

   violaceous 
  bands 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  fuscous 
  

   wings. 
  

  

  