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136 Prof. Westwood’s Observations on the 
ichneumonoides, with the head black. General colour 
chestnut-sienna, abdomen with peduncle and three fasciz 
black. 
Methoca gracilis. 
Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc., vol. v., p. 77. 
““M. nigra, nitida, immaculata, alis hyalinis. 
“3. Length 8% lines. Shining black, slightly 
villose, the head closely and finely punctured, sparingly 
so on the vertex, the tips of the mandibles ferruginous. 
The prothorax smooth, the mesothorax punctured, and 
the metathorax coarsely rugose; the wings hyaline and 
splendidly iridescent; the legs rufo-piceous. Abdomen 
smooth and shining; the basal segment subpetiolate, 
with a central longitudinal channel; the base of the 
seoments much depressed; their margins constricted ; 
the apical one with an acute upturned spine.” 
Hab. Makassar (Wallace). 
In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie (olim Saunders). 
Male smaller than our M. Sanvitali, entirely black. 
Probably male of MW. insularis. 
Methoca nigriceps. 
Smith, Descr. n. sp. Hymenopt., 1879, p. 228. 
‘9. Ferruginous, with the head and four fascie on 
the abdomen, black. The clypeus, mandibles, and 
antenne ferruginous; the head smooth and shining, 
with fine distinct punctures. The thorax smooth and 
shining, the tibie and tarsi finely spinose. Abdomen 
very smooth and shining, the 2nd and 8rd segments 
with a broad black fascia near to their apical margins ; 
the fascie are broadest in the middle and taper to a 
point laterally, but do not extend to the lateral margins; 
the fasciz on the 8rd and 4th segments are at their 
basal margins. Length 4 lines.” 
Hab. Brazil (? locality uncertain). In Mus. Britann. 
Methoca constricta. 
Smith, op. cit., p. 228. 
“3g. Black; the abdomen shining, the segments 
deeply constricted. The antenne obscurely fulvous 
beneath, above fuscous; the mandibles ferruginous ; 
the face closely punctured, the vertex shining and less 
