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black ; their middle joints have a yellowish tinge. Wings rather 

 short, hyaline. ? . 



Length 13-14 mm. ; terebra 2 mm. 



Face and clypeus covered with short silvery hair, the vertex rugose, 

 irregularly striated in the middle below the ocelli. Mesonotum 

 finely and closely transversely striated, the striaj stronger towards 

 the apex. Scutellums impunctate. Median segment closely reticu- 

 lated, the reticulations becoming stronger and more widely separated 

 towards the apex ; the spines rounded at the apex. Propleurfe 

 shining, shagreened, striated at the apex ; the nieso- closely punc- 

 tured, reticulated at the base ; a smooth depression at the centre ; 

 the meta- above closely reticulated, the lower border crenulated, the 

 centre obliquely striated ; the base in the middle finely punctured. 

 Alxlominal petiole sliining, obscurely tshagreened, the sides with a 

 double keel reaching to the stigmas ; the middle segments shagreened. 



Mesostenus bkahminus, sp. nov. 



Black ; the orbits all round, but much narrower near the top on 

 the outer-side and above the clypeus on the inner, the face, cly])eu8 

 at the base, labrum, base of mandibles, palpi, a broad line on the 

 middle of the pronotum, an oval mark on the apex of the middle 

 lobe of the mesonotum, the scutellum, the apex of the post-scutellum, 

 the apex of the metanotum all round, narrowest above, the lower 

 edge of the propleuraj, the tubercles, a small, somewhat oval mark 

 on the apex of the mesopleurae above the middle, a large mark on 

 the lower-side— narrowed towards the apex and triangular at tlie 

 base — a short line on the mesopleuno, bordering the keel, a large 

 mark behind the spiracles and a smaller one, narrowed toward the 

 apex, on the centre of the metapleura?, and the apices of the abdo- 

 minal segments, yellow. Legs rufo-fulvous, the four front coxsb 

 and trochanters white, the hinder coxte broadly black at the base 

 Ijeneath, at the sides and at the middle above ; the base of the 

 hinder tibia;, their apices more broadly, the base of the metatarsus 

 and the apical joint black ; the rest white. Wings hyaline. ? . 



Lengtli 12 mm. ; terebra 3 mm. 



The 7th to 15th joints of the antenna? white, black above. Face 

 and clypeus closely punctured and covered with short silvery hair. 

 Front smooth ; the vertex with a stout smooth keel in the centre, 

 the sides strongly marked with curved keels ; the ocellar region 

 finely striated, the striaj curved. Mesonotum closely punctured, tlie 

 furrows crenulated, especially towards the apex, the sides there finely 

 transversely striated. Scutellum smooth, almost impunctate. The 

 base of the median segment irregularly longitudinally striated ; in 



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