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puuctured, its apex broadly roimdecl, depressed ; its sides are 

 broadly margiued, yellow, as is also the iipper edo^e; the lower 

 inner orbits are liued with yellow, tlio line bein<^ narrowed 

 above. The front and vertex are smooth and sbininfj. Thorax 

 blaek, a sniall mark below tho tepfnlae, the curvod keels ou 

 the sides of the scntellum at the base, the apex of the scu- 

 tellum and the base and apex of the tegniae broadly, yellow. 

 Mesonotuni closely and unifornily panctured; the scntellam is 

 more rugosely punctiired; its basai dépression is rouuded at 

 the base, transverse at the apex and bearing 6 stout longi- 

 tndinal keels. The sides of the scntellnm are raised and end 

 at the apex in a short stout tooth ; its apex bas a long, per- 

 pendicnlar slope and is keeled down the middle. On the sides 

 of the median segment is a large area, depressed, smooth and 

 shiniug, roundod at the apex and longer on the onter thau 

 on tlie inner side; the space betweeu them is siontly traus- 

 versely stria ted; the rest of the segment is irregularly, coar- 

 sely reticnlated. The npper part and apex of tlie propleiirae 

 are closely rngose, the rest shining and irregularly striated. 

 Mesopleurae closely rugosely pnnctnred, the oblique apical 

 slope is smooth aud shining; the lower furrow is wide and 

 deep; it is smooth and shining and widest at the base. Legs 

 black, covered with a white ])ubesceuce: the n])ical half of 

 the fore femora, the tibiae and the tarsi rufo-tostaceous; the 

 fore spurs are testaceous, the middle white, tlie hinder black. 

 The basai segment of the abdomen is raised in the centre, 

 bears there 2 yellow, stout keels, whicli converge at the base ; 

 the apex of the segment is broadly yellow, the band bciug 

 broadest at the keels; the 2'"l segment bas a yrllow mark on 

 the apex at the sides; the Si"^! bas a yellow band on the 

 apex; the 4tli a nari'ower one and the 5tïi a still uarrower 

 one; the 6th segment is raised and projects slightly at the 

 apex; the 7tli is small, obliquely narrowed towards the apex. 



The antennae are broken off before the middle in my 

 spécimen. The genus Cnltrarins Dacies differs from Metopins 

 iu baving the head small, uarrower than the thorax, the 2'it^l 

 joint of palpi normal, not abnormally swollen and the trans- 

 verse median nervure in bind wiugs angnlarly broken above 

 the middle. 



Bracoiiidae. 



1. Celiesticlla, geu. nov. 



Fore wings with 3 cubital cellules. Uadiale cellule elou- 

 gate, reaching to the apex of the wiugs. Récurrent nervure 

 iuterstitial with the first transverse cubital; the transverse 



