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of the antenn, a spot-on the mandibles and a line behind 
the eyes, and on the margin of the vertex, white. Thorax 
very closely punctured; a yellow line passes over the 
tegulz and runs on to the posterior margin of the scutellum ; 
wings hyaline and iridescent, the tegule rufo-testaceous ; 
the basal joint of the posterior tarsi cream-coloured. The 
head, thorax and legs with short cinereous pubescence. 
Abdomen: a yellow fascia in the middle of each segment ; 
that on the first only commenced at the sides, the second 
widely interrupted, the rest narrowly so; the sixth with 
a large cordate-shaped spot; clothed beneath with pale 
fulvous pubescence. 
Male.—Closely resembles the female; the face has the 
white colouring extended above the insertion of the an- 
tennz, a spot in front of the anterior ocellus, and the 
mandibles, white; the anterior margin of the mesothorax 
with an interrupted white line; the tegulz in front, the 
tubercles and a white stripe passing from them down the 
sides and also beneath the thorax, the legs also striped 
with white; the fasciz on the abdomen scarcely inter- 
rupted. 
Hab.—Barrackpore ; Bombay Presidency. 
Mr. Rothney found this insect at Barrackpore; Dr. Leith 
took it in the latter district. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE I. 
. Meranoplus bicolor, $. 1a. Antenna of ditto. 
” ” Q ¢ 2a. ” 
” ” : 
. Pseudomyrma bicolor, 9. 
Cyathocera nodicornis, . 5a. Antenna of ditto. 50. Posterior leg 
of ditto. 
. Nomia oxybeloides, g. 6a. Posterior leg of ditto, 
. Posterior leg of Nomia Eiliotii, g. 
curvipes, g. 
antennata, &. 
thoracica, g. 
SOSA Sumo tor 
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