54 THTNNIDJE. 



median segment very coarsely rugose ; basal segment of abdomen 

 narrowed, remainder with a remarkably deep constriction between 

 each pair above and below. Black ; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 (the abdomen especially beneath) covered with a thin soft hoary 

 pubescence : antennae opaque, dull black, very massive propor- 

 tionately ; legs with the tibiae and tarsi piceous ; wings hyaline and 

 iridescent, nervures and tegulae dark testaceous. 



Hab. Bengal ; Karen Hills, Burma ; Tenasserim. (S . Length 7 ; 

 exp. 12 mm. $ unknown. 



124. Methoca rugosa, Carn. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897). 



S . Head closely and coarsely punctured ; antennae incrassate, 

 opaque ; pronotum transversely striate, with a broad posterior 

 smooth margin ; mesonotum, scutellum, postscutellum, and median 

 segment coarsely reticulate, the last obliquely but sharply truncate 

 at apex ; abdomen smooth and shining above, sparsely punctured 

 at the sides, the margins of the segments with deep subapical 

 transverse consti-ictions. Jet-black ; the scape and basal four 

 joints of the antennae, the trochanters, femora, tibiae, and tarsi of 

 the anterior, and the apex of the femora, with the underside of the 

 tibiae of the intermediate legs, red ; a little pubescence on the 

 underside of the scape of the antennae, and the apex of the 

 mandibles reddish ; wings hyaline for nearly half their length from 

 base, fuscous beyond. 



Hah. Ceylon. J. Length 16; ex2). 24 mm. Type in coll. 

 Eothney. 



Genus ISWARA. 

 Iswara, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. (new ser.) i, p. 2Si3 (1851). 



Type, /. luteus, Westw. 

 Range. India. 



Head moderately large ; eyes with the inner orbits straight, 

 barely emarginate; clypeus small, bilobed ; labrum concealed; 

 mandibles slender, curved, the apex acute and 

 with a small tubercular tooth on the inside ; 

 labial palpi 3-jointed, the joints subequal ; max- 

 illary palpi minute, also 3-jointed, the basal joint 

 the shortest, the 2ud longer, its apex thickened ; 

 antennae long, filiform, 13-jointed in the male. 

 Thorax oblong, subcylindrical, the pronotum 

 laterally reaching up to the base of the wings ; 

 scutellum quadrate, postscutellum transverse ; 

 median segment rounded, bearing an impression 

 ■p- g on either side ; wings of moderate size, stigma 



liu-ara luteus, (^ . ?. large, radial cell appendiculated ; three cubital 

 cells, 2nd subtriangular, receiving the 1st recur- 

 rent nervure, 3rd subquadrate, receiving the 2nd recurrent nervure ; 



