MISCOPHUS. 215 



Genus MISCOPHUS. 

 Miacophus, Jurine, Hym. p. 205 (1807). 



Type, M. bicohr, Jur. 



Range. Palsearctic, Neotropical, and Oriental regions. 

 All the known species are of small size, 3-10 mm. in length, 



and have the general facies of 

 Larra and allied genera. The 

 mandibles with an incision on 

 the outer margin close to the 

 middle, the inner margin not 

 toothed, the apex simple ; base 

 of the antennae low down on the 

 front ; the flagellum filiform ; eyes 

 very slightly convergent towards 

 the vertex ; ocelli complete, round, 

 pj„ 53^ and placed in a somewhat long 



Miscophus rothneyi, 2 • t- triangle just below the vertex ; 



vertex broad, transverse; pronotum 

 scarcely at all depressed beneath the level of the mesonotum ; 

 median segment as long as the mesonotum or slightly longer, 

 the apex more or less truncate; legs longish, stout, the inter- 

 mediate tibiae with two apical spines. Wings ample, the fore 

 \\ing with one radial and two cubital cells, the radial cell 

 not appendiculate ; the 1st cubital cell large, receiving the 1st 

 recurrent nervure near the apex, the 2ud cubital cell triangular, 

 petiolate, receiving the 2nd recurrent nervure almost at the apex. 

 Abdomen pseudosessile, the apical segment without a pygidial 

 area, conical. 



Only one species is, as yet, known from India : it is in the 

 collection of Mr. Gr. A. James-Eothney, and was placed in the 

 collection above the \ohe\ Notogo7iia pulchrijiennis^hy M-V.Ca.mQvon 

 (probably overlooked). The European species are said to provision 

 their nests with spiders. 



406. Miscophus rothneyi, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen opaque, very densely pruinose ; 

 clypeus transverse, its anterior margin very widely arched ; 

 pronotum in front with three or four transverse stria) ; median 

 segment long, as long as the rest of the thorax, flat above, some- 

 what compressed at the sides, the apex truncate, a faint medial 

 longitudinally impressed line from base not reaching the verge of 

 the truncation, with a broad vertical furrow on the latter ; legs 



* The description of Notogonia pulchripennis, Cam., would, in part, answer 

 for the insect 1 have described above, which is a Miscophus, and not a Noto- 

 gonia. I have failed to identify Mr. Cameron's N. pulchripeimis. 



