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and practically standing on the parapsidal furrows, here indistinct through the 

 development of small cells. Side lobes with two or three bristles ; axillae, one 

 bristle ; scutellum with the usual two strong posterior bristles, and two small pustules 

 (on the side sutures) which are probably setigerous and not sensory. Femoral furrows 

 well defined. Pleurae and sternum with coarse pattern. Prepectora very large 

 and laterally broad, but not meeting medianly, the interspace filled by a quadrate 

 smooth sclerite. Like the mesonotum, the metanotum and propodeon are flat ; 

 the median surface of the latter and the post- scutellum parallel, nearly in the same 

 plane ; side-pieces of metanotum comparatively smooth ; post-scutellum rough, 

 with two anterior and one posterior dimple, medianly raised, but not carinate. 

 Propodeon (fig. 5) with a deep, median sulcus whose sides diverge posteriorly ; the 

 bottom of the sulcus coarsely raised reticulate (1-2 rows of cells) ; outside the sulcus 



Fig. 5. Metanotum and propodeon of Golpixys necator, sp. n. 



the notum is reticulate, the rough areas medianly contracted before a smooth depres- 

 sion (deep and steep- walled anteriorly), which contracts towards the oval-rimmed 

 spiracle into a sulcus encircling the spiracle, flattening out again above the pleura 

 and below a strong raised prominence on the posterior edge, a httle beyond the level 

 of the spiracle. Pleurae reticulate, postero-laterally nearly rectangular ; posterior 

 edge sloping towards the petiole. There are numerous bristles on the pleurae and 

 4-5 behind the posterior prominence. 



Wings : Fore wings two and a third times as long as broad ; length, 2"1 mm. ; 

 breadth, "9 mm. Marginal ; submarginal, as 5 : 4 (reckoning from the first long 

 fringing bristle) or 3 : 2 (from the first non-setigerous pustule of the former vein). 

 The radius and postmarginal subequal, and in the same scale, less than 1. Sub- 

 marginal with two bristles ; marginal and post-marginal combined with a fringe of 

 twenty-four bristles ; radius with five bristles, and three more at the edge ; no clear 

 space round the radius. The submarginal cell bears below about six bristles on the 

 basal half, and of the row fringing the inside of the marginal on the lower surface, 

 the first (proximal) twelve are long and conspicuous. Discal ciliation regular, sparser 

 proximally, coming close to the marginal to within one-third from the origin of the 

 latter. Below this point, half-way to the posterior edge, begins a row of isoclinal 

 bristles with a clear border in front, which extends nearly to the posterior angle ; 

 there are also a few bristles between this angle and the base. Hind wings about four 

 times as long as broad; length, 1*6 mm. ; breadth, •42 mm.; subcostal cell 

 extremely narrow on the middle third, and filled by the vein both proximally and 

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