228 On new Species of Spliegidoe. 



tured ; postscutellum much more finely and closely punc- 

 tured. Median seg^ment closely and finely transversely 

 striated and thickly covered with white pubescence. INIeta- 

 pleurse (except at the base) finely punctured. ]\Ietasternal 

 process raised in the middle behind and keeled in the centre 

 of the raised part ; the apical lobes rounded. Abdomen 

 finely punctured, the apices of the basal four segments 

 depressed ; the middle and apical segments thickly covered 

 M'ith silvery pubescence ; pygidium thickly covered Avitli 

 silvery pile; the penultimate segment bears long fulvous 

 hair, ^'^entral surface thickly covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence ; the apical also with fuscous hair. 



Notoffonia strenua, sp. n. 



Black, covered with silvery pubescence; pro- and raeso- 

 thorax closely and distinctly aciculatcd, the elypeus smooth ; 

 front and vertex alutaceous, almost punctured ; the lower 

 furrow wide and deep. Basal part of median segment 

 closely, distinctly, transversely striated, almost reticulated; 

 the apex finely, but not very closely, transversely striated; 

 the furroW' deep, narrowed in the middle. Metapleurse 

 finely, uniformly, and closely obliquely striated. Sternal 

 process depressed in the middle at the base, the apical 

 incision long, not quite reaching backwards to the middle, 

 the apical lobes rounded. Abdominal segments banded with 

 silvery pubescence; the pubescence on pygidium white. 

 Legs densely pruino>;c ; the spines black. Wings fuscous- 

 violaceous, the stigma and nervures black ; the second 

 cubital cellule in front about two thirds of the length of the 

 third; the first transverse cubital nervure roundly curved 

 and clearly bullated below the middle ; the recurrent nervures 

 are received shortly behind the middle and separated by 

 about half the length of the second cubital cellule ; the 

 apical abscissa of radius is long, straight, and oblique. ? . 



Length 12 mm. 



Ocellus longer than broad, its apex sharj)ly pointed. 

 Clypeus smooth and shining. Mandibles piceous before the 

 apex. 



Notoyonia sulcifrons, sp. n. 



Black, densely covered with silvery pubescence. Man- 

 dibles ferruginous, the base black, covered with white hair ; 

 palpi fuscous black, covered with white pubescence. Legs 

 thickly covered w ith silvery pubescence, that on the femora 



