72 HYMENOPTERA. 
its apical margin ; beneath, the segments have a fringe of short 
white pubescence. 
Hab. India. 
10. MyZzINE PETIOLATA. 
Male. Length 44-5 lines.—Black, the head roughly punc- 
tured ; ‘the clypeus, mandibles, and a spot above each antenna 
pale yellow; the posterior margin of the prothorax, a spot on the 
tegulz, the tibie and tarsi pale yellow ; the anterior and inter- 
mediate tibiz have a stripe behind, and the posterior pair, except 
at their base, black ; wigs hyaline and iridescent ; on the pro- 
and metathorax the punctures are scattered, the metathorax 
opake and rugose, having a central impressed line at its base ; 
the basal segment petiolate, its apex subglobose, the second seg- 
ment slightly constricted ; the apical margins of all the segments 
have a narrow yellow fascia, which is widened in the middle and 
at the extreme lateral margins. 
Hab. India. (Coll. W.W. Saunders, Esq.) 
11. Myzine MAapRASPATANA. B.M. 
Female. Length 8 lines.—Head and thorax black, deeply and 
ruggedly punctured, the punctures on the prothorax and scutellum 
confluent ; the head, thorax and legs have a few erect scattered 
glittering hairs ; the apex of the joints of the tarsi rufo-piceous 
and furnished with rigid pale yellow hairs; wings dark brown, 
the posterior pair hyaline towards their base; the metathorax 
shining, delicately roughened towards the base and rugose be- 
hind, and having a longitudinal impressed line. Abdomen: the 
basal segment black, the second, third, and base of the fourth 
red, from thence to the apex black, and the apical segment lon- 
gitudinally scabrous. 
Hab. Madras. 
12. MyZINE FUSCIPENNIS. B.M. 
Female. Length 5-53 lines.—Black and shining, head and 
prothorax having large distinct punctures, the latter subelongate ; 
the mesothorax less coarsely and more sparingly punctured, the 
seutellum having large deep punctures, placed somewhat in 
lines ; the metathorax rugose, most finely so towards the base, 
having a central channel, which is margined by two slightly ele- 
vated carine, truncated posteriorly ; the legs have a number of 
pale testaceous spines, the calcaria of that colour; wings dark 
fuscous, paler towards their base, particularly the posterior pair. 
Abdomen strongly punctured at the base, more finely so towards 
