Hyinejioptera Orientalis. 1 1 1 



tion ; the front and vertex sparsely covered with longish 

 blackish hair ; the cheeks, face, and clypeus densely covered 

 with silvery pile and with longish fuscous hair. Eyes 

 slightly converging beneath ; the ocelli hardly forming a 

 triangle ; a furrow along their side, the furrows meeting 

 into a V-shaped depression, which has a sharp raised pro- 

 jection in its centre, Clypeus broadly rounded, the apex 

 depressed and with a short incision in the centre. Thorax 

 sparsely covered with a fuscous to black pubescence ; the 

 pubescence on the middle segment dull fulvous. Pro- 

 notum with a distinct and broad depression in its centre ; 

 the mesothorax is also slightly depressed in the centre, 

 and the scutellum and post scutellum are distinctly 

 and broadly furrowed. Median segment transversely and 

 regularly striolated ; a wide and deep furrow in its centre 

 at the apex, and there is an elongated pear-shaped depres- 

 sion on the upper part. Abdomen shining, with a plum- 

 beous tint ; the petiole covered with long black hair, and a 

 little longer than the coxae ; the pygidial area shagreened, 

 and with a few scattered punctures. Legs with the coxae, 

 trochanters and four apical joints of the tarsi and the spines 

 on the hinder tibiae, blackish. 



In the colour of the body and pubescence this species 

 comes nearest to ^. ntfipennis, but is readily known from it 

 by the reddish legs. It can hardly, I think, be an extreme 

 variety of 8. mtmlenta, from which, apart from the dif- 

 ference in coloration of the head and thorax and their 

 pubescence (comparing the females), it differs in having 

 the pronotum more distinctly raised above and separated 

 from the mesonotum, besides being broadly furrowed in the 

 centre ; the mesonotum and scutellums are also broadly 

 furrowed, and the median segment, instead of having three or 

 four raised ridges, is uniformly and regularly striolated. 



The amount of black on the tarsi varies, as does also 

 the colour of the spines and wings, the latter in one specimen 



