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Descriptions of Neio Sfihegidae. 
densely clothed with silvery hairs ; wings with a yellow tinge ; 
anterior tarsi with a comb of long black bristle-like hairs. Meta- 
notum densely clothed with greyish hairs ; propodeum (dorsally) 
finely reticulate; its sides diagonally strigose and clothed with silvery 
hairs. Abdomen densely and strongly punctured on the first four 
segments, sparsely on the fifth ; apical dorsal valve narrowly trun¬ 
cate, shining, largely and remotely punctured ; the segments slightly 
discoloured at their ajiices, and with a row of fine golden ciliae. 
Beneath shining ; second segment closely punctured, the rest 
remotely so. 
Long. 10 mm. 
$ 1. Biskra (11. vi, 98. F. D. M.). 
[Type in Coll. F. D. Morice.] 
This fine species is nearly double the size of any of the 
other Palaearctic species. It somewhat resembles an 
exceedingly large punctatissima, but the puncturation of 
the mesonotum is finer, and only large and remote just on 
the disc, whereas in punctatissima the large punctures 
extend over nearly the whole surface. The silvery sides 
of the thorax and propodeum and the grey-haired post- 
scutellum are also characters of the new species, as well as 
the wholly testaceous abdomen. 
15. Gastrosericus moricei, n. sp. 
(J. Caput atque thorax nigra pilis sericeis aureo-argenteis den- 
sissime vestita. Antennarum scapus, tegulae, tuberculi [humerales], 
abdomen et pedes testacei; abdominis segmenta plus minus pilis 
argenteis tecta, apicibus fere pellucidis et argenteo-fasciatis; antennae 
articulis 4-7 subtus sinuatis, articulo apicali subtus excavato 
leniterque curvato. 
. Black, with mandibles, scape of antennae, tubercles, tegulae, 
and wing veins, legs and abdomen testaceous. Head and thorax, 
including the propodeum, densely clothed with silvery hairs, which 
in some lights have a more or less golden tint ; antennae with the 
4th, 5th, 6th and 7th joints more or less sinuate, the apical joint flat¬ 
tened, somewhat excavated beneath and slightly curved. The silvery 
clothing of the thorax is very dense, and is divided down the centre 
by a sort of “parting.” Wings hyaline, anterior pair with the radial 
cell very short and sharply truncate at the apex. Second submarginal 
triangular, its base about as long as the radial. Front metatarsi prob¬ 
ably with a comb of fine transparent spine-like hairs, but of these 
I can only see two on the only remaining front metatarsus in the 
present specimen. Propodeum with its pubescence divided, down 
