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long pale hairs, its base with a row of punctures. Lega 

 black ; the four anterior trochanters rufous ; the calcaria pale ; 

 tlie hair is long and dense. Wings fuscous violaceous; the 

 stigma and nervures deep black ; the second and third 

 cubital cellules are equal in length at tlie top ; below the 

 second cellule is nearly twice the length of the third and 

 receives the recurrent nervure in tlie middle ; the second 

 recurrent is received in the basal third. The petiole is 

 sparsely covered with large punctures and with long pale 

 hair; its basal teeth are large; the ventral keel is short, 

 thick, and straight; the apical iialf of the segment is sharply 

 oblique ; the second to tilth segments are thickly fringed on 

 the apex with long fulvous hair ; the aj)ical with paler fulvous 

 hair; the pygidium is punctured throughout, the punctures 

 stronger towards the apex, which is transverse. Ventral 

 segments punctured, smooth at the base. The teguke bear 

 large scattered punctures and have the edges behind rufous. 

 Allahabad. 



Thjmnidae. 



Methoca violaceipennis, sp. n. 



Nigra, dense albo-hirsuta ; alis violaceo-hyalinis, uervis stigmateque 



nigris. cJ • 

 Long. 12 mm. 



Anfennfe black ; the scape covered thickly with long 

 fuscous hair ; the Hngcllum densely with short stiff pubes- 

 cence. Head black, the labrum fuscous, smooth. Clypeua 

 roundly incised at the apex, which is oblique and ends in the 

 middle above in a smooth tubercle-like projection; it is 

 strongly aciculated. The front coarsely punctured ; on its 

 lower half in the middle is a wide fin-row with oblique sides; 

 the vertex is less strongly punctured. The face, cheeks, and 

 outer orbits are thickly covered with long white, the front and 

 vertex more sparsely with fuscous, hair. i'horax black, 

 shining, thickly covered with white hair; the pronotum 

 roundly, but not much, narrowed in front, distinctly but not 

 very strongly punctured, except at the apex ; the mesonotum 

 similarly punctured ; the sides near the base depressed and 

 closely transversely striated ; on the outer side ot the depres- 

 sion is a longitudinal furrow which reaches to near the apex. 

 iScutellum punctured like ihc mesonotum, its base transverse, 

 obliquely depressed ; the uj)per part of the depression smooth 

 and separated irom the lower, which is closely rugose. Median 

 segment closely rugosely punctured ; above the middle it is 



