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subimpressed on either side, with the epistoma a httle protuberant 

 and a deep sulcus between the anteurue, entirely stramineous, ^\•ith 

 the colour rising triangularly a little above the scrobes ; clypeus 

 verv prominent, tuberculit'orni, subcircular, stramineous, basally 

 strongly discrete and apically black ; mandibles weak, narrow 

 and apically acuminate, stramineous, witli the a])ical teeth, of 

 which the lower is much the longer, small and ferruginous. 

 Anieniui' much longer than the body, slender, setaceous and finely 

 pilose, with the apical joints well discrete, piceous, with the 

 basal three or four joints rufescent, at least beneath. Tltorax 

 slender and subcylindrical, black, with the prothorax basally 



Fig. 97. — Megciiifylus loiigicoxis, Cam. 



throughout, a meso])leural mark before the radices broadly, and' 

 its basal carina narrowly, stramineous ; mesonotum glabrous and 

 nitidulous, apically elongate and constricted [it the obsolete notauli ; 

 metathorax irregularly shagreened, very small dorso-ventrally, 

 though hardly narrower discally than the mesonotum ; metanotum 

 but slightly convex and not depressed apically, lateral carina) 

 distinct and connected by two transverse carinte, across the disc 

 and before the petiolar area ; spiracles circular and not small. 

 Scutellum glabrous, triangular, subconvex and laterally carinate to 

 its apex, which is, like that of the postscutellum, ferruginous.. 

 Ahdomen linear and subnitidulous, becoming duller, pilose and 

 broader before its apex ; black, witli the base of the first two, 

 apex of second, whole of third segments, and the anus, indeter- 

 minately rufescent ; basal segment parallel-sided, about live times 

 as long as broad, glabrous and laterally sparsely pilose, with the 

 apex subnodulose and the spiracles distinctly before the centre ;. 



