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of median line, a semicircular bordered impression on posterior 
border of scutellum; propodeum widest behind middle; legs 
moderately stout, abdomen normal. Adorned with sparse erect 
white hair. 
Type 1¢, Taihoku, Formosa, January, 1916; collected by F. 
Muir. 

Fig. 8. Methoca formosana, 9, Doe o< alee 
Methoca fimbricornis, n. sp. (Figs. 9 and 10.) 
Male, type: Length 7.5 mm. Shining black except reddish 
tip of mandibles, yellowish brown palpi and apical portion of 
legs. Moderately stout. Head much wider than thorax and 
subquadrate ; mandibles bidentate, with coarse punctures, malar 
space longer than usual and punctate, palpi long, clypeus rugulose, 
its anterior portion gently rounded out and there impunctate; a 
sharp median clypeal compressed process ending before anterior 
margin; clypeo-frontal fossa deep; frons polished, with large, 
deep and well-spaced punctures, no tubercles above antennae, a 
median frontal depression ; punctures smaller and closer together 
on ocellar area ; ocelli distinct, arranged in a triangle; vertex with 
sparse smaller punctures. Eyes nearly parallel inwardly ; anten- 
