326 Mr. G. H. Verrall’s descriptions of 
after which the rest of the joint remains equal in depth; style 
yellow with the basal quarter blackish, pointed at the tip; the 
basal joint of the antennae is slightly shining, but the third joint 
is dull blackish and quite bare, while the two basal joints are 
rough with tiny bristles. 
Thorax shining aeneous black with no trace of grey or black 
stripes, and with the mesopleurae and the scutellum entirely and 
almost equally covered with rather long dense but not crowded 
reddish-orange pubescence, but this pubescence does not much 
obscure the ground-colour on the whole disc of the thorax and on 
the scutellum; on the mesopleurae the pubescence is more dense 
and tangled and more reddish, on the back-margin of the thorax it 
is slightly longer, and on the scutellum it is longer and less reddish. 
Abdomen with the basal segment hardly visible, but the second 
segment dull black on the middle quarter of the base, extending into 
a wide dull black cross-band a little before the hind-margin which 
is fairly broad at its middle but becomes narrower towards, and does 
not reach by a fair distance, the sides; third segment with a dull 
black band, narrowly interrupted at its middle, occupying about 
one-sixth the segment and nearly reaching the sides. Pubescence 
about the base and sides similar to that on the thorax, but longer 
about the basal corners and shorter at the sides of the third and part 
of the fourth segments, shorter and more brownish-orange on the 
dise of the third segment, and extending slightly (ranging from an 
eighth to more than half) on to the disc of the fourth segment, or 
vice versa, the pubescence on the rest of the fourth segment including 
all the tip black and slightly longer, extending slightly on to the hind 
part of the disc of the third segment. Belly shining aeneous black 
on the dise but with wide lateral margins up to the dorsal plates; 
second segment with rather abundant and rather long orange 
pubescence; third segment with shorter similar pubescence; fourth 
segment with much shorter dull brownish pubescence about its base 
but all black on the rest; fifth segment (concealed under the fourth 
dorsal segment) triangular and shining black with entirely black 
pubescence. 
Legs reddish-orange; coxae and trochanters black and moder- 
ately shining, and the last two joints of the tarsi black; femora 
more reddish, hind pair slightly obscured above near the base or, 
in one specimen, all the femora blackish at the base and the posterior 
pairs even to the basal third; hind tibiae sometimes with a blackish 
speck outside just before the middle, and always with a kink inside 
at about three-quarters of their length. Pubescence on the front 
femora beneath towards behind dense, equal, and all orange; on 
the middle femora shorter, especially on the tip half, slighter, and 
