MTZINE. 65 



Key to the S_pecies. 



A. Females only known. 



a. Wings fuscous. 



a. BJack ; 2nd, .3rd, and base of the 4th 



abdominal segment red ; hind wing 



hyaline at base M. niaJraspatatia, p. G5. 



b'. Black ; 1-5 abdominal segments red ; 



both wings hyaline at base 3f. mcmdalensis, p. 66. 



c . Black; abdomen black, head red. . . . M. tricolor, p. 66. 

 d' . Black; wings wholly dark fuscous. . 3f.fusciperuiis, p. 67. 



b. Wiugs hyaline or subhyaline. 



rt'. Abdomen entirely red M. combusta, p. 67. 



b' . Abdomen entirely black. 



a'-. Mandibles and anteimte black ; 2nd 

 segment with a transverse im- 

 pressed line at base M. anthracina, p. 67. 



b-. Mandibles and the flagellum of 

 the antennae dull red ; 2nd seg- 

 ment without an impressed line . M. claripen?iiti, p. 68. 



B. Males only known. 



a. Wings fuscous, broadly hyaline at base. 

 a', Olypeus, scape, and basal four 



joints of the flagellum of the 



antennae red 31. cUmidiaticornis, p. 68. 



b'. Clypeus and antennaj black M. dunidiata, p. 68. 



b. Wings hyaline. 



a' . Yellow with black markings. 



or. Abdomen with the posterior 



margins of the 2-6 segments 



widely and deeply emarginate . . M. pallida, p. 69. 



b'-. Abdomen with posterior margins 



of segments normal, transverse, 



not emarginate M. orientalis, p. 69. 



b' . Black, abdomen immaculate. 



a-. Mandibles, flagellum of the 

 antennae beneath, and the legs 

 obscurely reddish ; pronotum 

 longitudinally striate at the sides. M. Iceta, p. 70. 

 b'^. Mandibles, antennae, and legs 

 black ; pronotum not striate at 



the sides M. bunnanica, p. 70. 



c'. Black ; abdomen with bi-emarginate, 

 narrow transverse yeUow bands on 

 the apical margins of the 2-6 

 segments M. petiolata, p. 70. 



14-i. Myzine madraspatana, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 72, $ ; Cam. Mem 

 Manc/i. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 114. 



2 . Head, pro- and mesonotum, and scutellum rugose, roughlv 

 and coarsely punctured; the median segment anteriorly and dowli 

 the middle and the postseutellum smooth and shining, the former 

 truncate posteriorly, with an ahbreviated longitudinally impressed 

 line, enclosed by parallel carinae, at its base ; obdoinen smoolli, 

 finely and distantly punctured. Black, tue 2nd, 3rd, and base of 



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