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smooth, sparsely covered with short fuscous hair. Median segment 

 shagreened behind the transverse keel ; the base depressed and 

 having some stout longitudinal keels, the centre smooth and bounded 

 by curved keels ; the rest of the segment irregularly reticulated, 

 more widely at the base, than in the middle or apex. There are 

 three stout keels on the base of the propleurse, the top, especially at 

 the apex, marked with irregularly curved keels, the middle with 

 stout, distinctly separated ones ; the lower part closely and strongly 

 aciculated. Mesopleurse coarsely aciculated, the apes above smoother 

 and more shining, the lower part stoutly striated. Metapleurae 

 closely, irregularly reticulated. 



Mesostenus maculiceps, sp. nov. 



Black : the scape of the antenna? beneath, the apex of the 6th and 

 the 7th to 10th joints white beneath ; the palpi, apex of labrum, 

 clypeus, a large wedge-shaped mark on the face below the antennas, 

 a line on the pronotum, narrowed in the middle, the apex of the 

 middle lobe of the mesonotum, scutellums, the scutellar keels, two 

 large marks on the obliquely sloped apex of the median segment, 

 its spines, the base of the propleura?, tubercles, the apex of the 1st 

 abdominal segment, of the 2nd and 3rd and the apical two entirelj'-, 

 yellow. Legs rufous, the four front coxse and trochanters yellow, 

 the tarsi spinose, the hinder white, black at base and apex. Wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and nervures black. 9 • 



Length 10 ram. 



Face closely punctured and covered with short, white pubescence, 

 the clypeus smooth, the front and vertex closely punctured. Meso- 

 notum opaque, alutaceous, the furrows distinct, the scutellum smooth. 

 Median segment finely rugose ; behind the basal keel striated ; the 

 apex in the middle irregularly transversely striated. Except at the 

 base the propleura? are stoutly, obliquely striated ; the meso- opaque, 

 shagreened, obscurely striated ; the apex of the meta- obliquely 

 striated. The mesopleural furrow distinct, curved, striated. Meso- 

 sternum shining, aciculated, the central furrow widened at the apex. 



Phygadeuon latiannulatum, sp. nov. 



Black ; the scape beneath and joints 10-16 of the antennae clear 

 white ; the cl3'peus, mandibles, except at the apex, and palpi 

 yellowish-white, the base of the pronotum and tegula?, yellow, the 

 apical fourth of the 1st, the apical half of the 2nd, and a mark in 

 the centre of the 3rd abdominal segment, rufous. Legs : the four 

 anterior pale rufous, the cox« and trochanters pale yellow, reddish 

 above, the femora rufous, their extreme apex black, the tibia? fuscous- 



