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thorax is thickly covered with golden pubescence and with 

 long pale fulvous hair. The pronotum is deeply and dis- 

 tinctly separated from the mesonotum, which is closely 

 punctured. The hair on the postscutellum and the median 

 segment is long and thick; on the apex of the basal region 

 of the latter is a small, smooth, triangular space. The pro- 

 pleurae are rather bare ; in the middle is a curved, smooth 

 and shining, narrow furrow. The pubescence on the meso- 

 and metapleurse is dense ; the hair is long and. paler. Legs 

 rufous ; the coxae, trochanters, the four anterior femora 

 broadly behind to near the apex, and the hinder at the base 

 above and more broadly below, black ; the front femora 

 behind are covered with golden, the posterior four with 

 pale, pubescence. Wings hyaline ; along the nervures suf- 

 fused with fulvous clouds ; the lower third of the first 

 transverse cubital nervure is straight, the upper part is 

 oblique ; the first recurrent nervure is received nearly the 

 length of the second cubital cellule from the base of the 

 cellule, the second shortly beyond the middle. Abdomen 

 shining, smooth ; the segments banded with silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the pygidium is densely covered with silvery 

 pubescence ; the hypopygium is roundly and deeply incised 

 on the apex. 



Liris violaceipennis, sp. n. 



Niger, dense argenteo pilosus ; alis fusco-violaceis. 2 . 

 Long. 13 mm. 



The middle of the scape brownish beneath, thickly covered 

 with silvery pubescence; the fiagellum with a pale pile. 

 Front and vertex alutaceous, opaque ; the ocellus has a 

 triangular process in front ; behind the ocellar region is 

 a deep triangular depression ; there is a longitudinal shallow 

 furrow behind the ocellus. The cheeks and clypeus are 

 thickly covered with silvery pubescence; palpi thickly 

 covered with white pubescence. Pro- and mesonotuni 

 thickly covered with a pale dowm ; on the centre the down 

 has a fulvous tint. Median segment opaque, alutaceous;- 

 the apical slope has a narrow shallow furrow in the middle ; 

 the sides are obscurely transversely striated. Metapleurse 

 obscurely irregularly striated. Sternal process large, dis- 

 tinctly keeled down the middle ; its apical lobes rounded. 

 Wings with a distinct violaceous tint ; the second cubital 

 cellule at the top is nearly four times longer than the first ; 

 the upper half of the first transverse cubital nervure has, 

 above the middle, a different slope from the lower half; the 



