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unorori on new 



sparsely, behind thickly, covere;l with dark fulvous hair; 

 the upper part of the front indistinctly, the lower more dis- 

 tinctly furrowed. INIandibles yellow, except at the apex, 

 their base rugose ; the eyes are oblique on the inner side 

 above; tlie ocelli ••• Thorax black ; the apex of the pro- 

 notum, tegulse, scutellum, its tubercles, the apex of the 

 postscutellum, the pleural tubercles, and an oblique mark, 

 more than double their length, yellow. The hair on the 

 thorax is dense, short, dark fulvous above, paler on the 

 sides ; the furrow on the centre of the pronotum is deep and 

 moderately wide; the base of the mesonotum is strongly 

 and closely transversely striated, the strife are curved at the 

 sides. Scutellum strongly and closely punctured. jNIedian 

 segment opaque ; its base obscurely longitudinally striated ; 

 the apex has an oblique slope, is furrowed narrowly down 

 the centre, and, at the apex, is irregularly transversely striated. 

 Propleuraj opaque, the lower part in the middle with some 

 stout longitudinal keels ; raesopleurai shining, finely striated, 

 more strongly and closely below than above ; the metapleurse 

 finely and closely obliquely striated. Mesosternum closely 

 punctured and thickly covered with fulvous hair. Legs 

 yellow, their coxse black ; the apices of the tarsi and the 

 hinder knees blackish; the hinder tibiae stoutly and thickly 

 spinose. Wings hyaline, with a distinct fulvous tint ; the 

 stigma and nervures are dark fulvous. Abdomen black, 

 covered with a fulvous pile ; the base of the petiole is trian- 

 gular ; there is a transverse yellow line near the apex of the 

 petiole, a large transverse line, roundly incised at the apex, 

 on the middle of the second segment, a narrower one in the 

 centre of the third and fourth, both incised in the middle 

 at the base, and a broader one on the sixth, yellow. The 

 pygidial area is shining, its sides sharply margined, the 

 basal two-thirds with large deep punctures, each having a 

 long pale hair; the apex is closely finely rugosely punctured. 

 The ventral surface is black ; in the centre of the second 

 segment are four small yellow marks, the two central being 

 placed more behind than the others ; the apices of the 

 second and third segments are obscure rufous. 



The colour of the hair in C. auricomus is not stated ; the 

 strise on the mesonotum are called " very fine and regular,^^ 

 the scutellum is said to be ''slightly punctured" only, tlie 

 wings " hyaline,'^ in all of which points it differs from 

 C. hhasianus. 



The male is similarly coloured; the middle joints of the 

 antennae are broadly dilated on the underside, and the 

 flagellum is brownish on the underside. The apex of the 



