lo Cameron, Ilyuicnoptcra Orientalia. 



with loni^ish pale hair ; the labruin and clypcus smooth 

 and shininL^ ; mandibles entirely black ; at their base on 

 the lower side is a stout tooth, rounded at the apex. The 

 scape of the antennct punctured, sparsely covered with 

 longish white hair ; the flagellum is densely covered with 

 short stiff pubescence. Thorax thickly covered with 

 white hair; the pronotum has a broad band of pale 

 pubescence ; above it is stoutly punctured ; the pleune 

 smooth, except for a few obscure stria;. Mesonotuin 

 strongly and deeply punctured ; thickly covered with 

 fuscous hair, and with two deep furrows in the middle ; 

 the scutellum is more strongly and irregularly punctured ; 

 the post-scutellum is strongly aciculated. Median seg- 

 ment strongly reticulated ; the central basal area is longer 

 than it is broad ; widest at the base, its apex rounded and 

 slightly dilated at the apex. Propleura; at the apex with 

 some indistinct stria; ; the middle of the metapleurtt 

 punctured ; the apex of the metapleuras strongly reticu- 

 lated ; the base on the lower side obscurely punctured. 

 Wings fuscous, with a faint violaceous tinge ; the base 

 more hyaline ; the nervures are dark fuscous ; the second 

 cubital cellule is slightly shorter at the top, longer at the 

 bottom than the third ; the first recurrent nervure is 

 received in the middle ; the second at the base of the 

 apical third. Legs thickly covered with white hair ; the 

 calcaria pale ; the tarsal spines rufous. The basal three 

 segments are ferruginous ; the petiole is closely punctured, 

 covered with long white hair ; the apical halves of the 

 third, fourth, and fifth segments thickly covered with pale 

 fulvous hair ; the apical segments covered with long 

 black hairs ; strongly punctured, except on the middle of 

 the apical half. The petiole, on the under side in the 

 middle, is strongly and deepK' punctured ; there is no 

 distinct keel in the centre, which is straight. 



