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33. Pison insularis, n, sp. 



Female. Length 4| lines. Blacky shining^ and finely 

 punctured ; the abdomen with silvery bands. 



Head semi-opaque^ with the face as high as the sinus 

 of the eyes densely clothed with bright silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the cheeks and vertex behind with a thin change- 

 able silvery pubescence; tips of the mandibles rufo- 

 piceous, and the palpi pale testaceous. Thorax : covered 

 with a short thin silvery pubescence^ most sparing on the 

 mesothorax; the thorax is very finely punctured; the 

 metathorax oblique, and rounded at the apex, which is 

 transversely striate; a longitudinal channel runs from 

 the base to the apex; wings subhyaline, the nervures 

 black, the outer margin of the tegulee rufo-piceous. Ab- 

 domen shining, and very delicately punctured, the 

 margins of the segments depressed, and with bright 

 changeable silvery bands, not continued beneath. 



Hah. — New Hebrides, 



In the British Museum. 



34. Pison fabricator , n. sp. 



Female. Length 3^ lines. Black, head and thorax 

 strongly punctured, the abdomen smooth and shining. 



Head closely and strongly punctured, the vertex 

 slightly shining, and not so closely punctured as the 

 face ; the clypeus and sides of the face as high as the 

 sinus of the eyes covered with bright silvery pubes- 

 cence; the palpi testaceous. The pro- and meso-thorax 

 strongly punctured ; the metathorax truncate, with a 

 deep fossulet at the verge of the truncation above ; the 

 upper surface obliquely and strongly striate; the trun- 

 cation coarsely rugose ; the outer margins of the tegulae 

 testaceous, the wings subhyaline, with their apical mar- 

 gins clouded, the nervures black; the thorax has a thin 

 griseous pubescence. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 with very delicate scattered punctures. 



Hah. — Hong Kong. 



In the British Museum. 



35. Pison conformis, n. sp. 



Male. Length 3 lines. Head and thorax punctured 

 and semi-opaque ; abdomen shining. 



