Qtnera and Species of //i/mowjitvra. .').'}.') 



Montezuma disulciita, sjt. n. 



Nigra, sparse albo-maculatn ; alls fusoo-violaceis ; scapo antennarura 



basiquc raniulibulanini albo-tnaculatis. $ . 

 Long. 14-15 mm. 



Hah. Khasia Hills. (Joll. Kotlmey. 



Scape of antennaj sparsely aiul minutely punctured, yel- 

 lowish beneath. Front and vertex rugosely punctured, the 

 vertex mure sparsely than the front; the part between the 

 antennai broadly carinate ; foveate above, a yellow mark on 

 either side of the fovea. Clypeus closely rujijose, the apex 

 with scattered punctures ; depressed and roundly and distinctly 

 incised at the point. Mandibles with a small yellow mark in 

 the middle near the base, its lower side obliquely widened at 

 base and apex, the apical part bcin^ the longer. Thorax 

 black, except for an interrupted line on the pronotum and a 

 mark on either side of the apex of the median segment. 

 Pro- and mesonotum closely rugosely punctured ; the scu- 

 telhim,if anything, more closely, almost rugosely, punctured, 

 and with a shining line, gradually widened towards the apex 

 in the middle ; the postscutellum has the punctures, if any- 

 thing, more widely separated than on the scutellum ; its 

 centre is smooth and has an elongated shallow depression in 

 the middle. Pro- and mesopleuraj coarsely rugosely punc- 

 tured, the punctures on the latter running into reticulations ; 

 the apex is alutaccous, inipunctate. Aletapleurte alutaceous, 

 the apex obscurely obliquely striated ; on the base are tive 

 foveas, separated by stout keels, and having at the top a mucii 

 larger more elongated depression. Wings fuscous-violaceou-*, 

 the apical half of the posterior more hyaline. Legs black, a 

 line on the basal two thirds of the anterior tibiie in front and a 

 line on the base of the posterior behind yellow; the front 

 femora are similarly marked on the apical two thirds in 

 Iront. Abdomen bhiek ; a line, interrupted in the middle, on 

 the apex of the j)etiole, and three lines on the apex of the 

 second segment, yellow. Petiule above closely rugasely 

 punctured ; a shallow itidistinct turrow on the apex in the 

 middle above ; the base sparsely covered with long white 

 liair ; the lower side is regularly and stoutly transversely 

 striated. The second segment is closely but not very deeply 

 j)unctured ; the third segment is slightly depressed and 

 jiunctured on the apex. 



The insect is covered with a pale pile. On the median 

 .segment the central furrow is large and deep and is divided 

 into two parts by a transverse partition — a shorter basal, 



