M15T0PIUS. 



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white pilosity throughout ; metatlionix coarsely punctate, witli 

 the iivesd entire and strong ; areola cordiform, basally trun- 

 cate and extending to centre, enclosing a carina and emitting 

 costultB from its centre ; apophyses distinct and obtuse ; 

 mesopleural sulcus straight and deeply impressed. Scutellum 

 black and quadrate, apically depressed in the centre, with its 

 aui^des acuniinately produced ; postscutellum small and with long 

 hairs. Abdomen cylindrical and broadest towards apex, half as 

 long again as head and thorax, very coarsely and (towards the 

 base) eonfiueutly punctate, black, with the apices ol' all the 

 segments dull red ; basal segment almost broader than long, with 

 two parallel carinte on the disc ; the three following with one 

 discal carina, their apical angles a Httle elevated ; the remainder 

 basally carniate and purplish ; terebra not exserted, hypopygium 

 of $ large and reaching apex. Legs dull red, with the coxa; 

 and trochanters, as well as at least the hind tibiae and tarsi, 

 black ; all the calcaria white, the front ones like the base of their 

 tarsi strongly sinuate. Wings narrow and a little clouded 

 throughout, A\-ith the costa of the anterior pair deeply and broadly 

 piceous ; radix and teguloe black; areolet broader _ than high, 

 distinctly sessile, fenestrate below the centre of its external 

 nervure, and emitting the straight and unifenestrate second 

 recurrent nervure distinctly beyond its centre ; nervellus post- 

 furcal and intercepted at its upper third. 



Length 17 millim. 



SiKKiM : Gantok, vi. 03 (//. J. Walton). 



Type in the British Museum. 



The above description is drawn from three specimens, repre- 

 senting both sexes of this very distinct species. 



1S7. Metopius pulchripes, Cam. 



Metopius pulc/ir/pes, Cameron,* Journ. Bomlciy Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1907, p. 580 ($, as c^). 



2 . A black and flavous species, with the hind legs, except at 

 their base, red. Head closely punctate and black, with the 

 prominent eyes internally parallel ; vertical orbits, face, cheeks, 

 the whole mouth (except the basal margin) and apices of the uni- 

 dentate mandibles, flavous ; face deplanate, shining, distinctly and 

 sparsely punctate, strongly circumcarinate and apically connected 

 with the discrete and triangular clypeus. Antennoi ferruginous, 

 with the scape flavous, and tlagellum fulvous, beneath. Thorax 

 not broad, coarsely and irregularly punctate and pilose, black, with 

 elongate callosities before and beneath radices, coalescent with a 

 perpendicular mesopleural fascia, and a dot on either side of 

 metanotum, flavous ; areola alone entire, subcordiform. f^a'teUum 

 quadrate, deplanate, strongly and sparsely punctate, laterally 

 carinate throughout, black, with its apex entirely, the produced 

 apical angles, laterally dentate basal angles aud postscutellum, 



