40 
Female allotype: Length, 7 mm. Polished black, mandibles and 
legs except tarsi, dark red, basal third or more of antennae brown- 
ish, the remainder almost black; tarsi, and apex of abdomen in 
part yellowish brown. Quite slender, especially the thorax. Head 
about twice as wide as prothorax and narrowing behind the 
eyes; mandibles bidentate, only sparsely punctate; clypeus long, 
its membranous apical portion dull and truncate, the remainder 
Sty 

Fig. 10. Methoca fimbricornis, 9, * 11. 
smooth and with a strong median pointed tubercle; frons with a 
bituberculate process above antennae, and a shallow depression, 
a few vertical striae on raised portion on each side, the remainder 
of frons, together with the vertex, with rather large and very 
scattered punctures; ocelli arranged in an equilateral triangle ; 
eyes converging somewhat towards vertex; antennae with the 
basal articles of flagellum glabrous, these rather long and swollen 
apically, article 2 more than half as long as 3, which is a little 
longer than 4; apical joints finely punctate. Thorax and abdo- 
men almost impunctate; the cervical region of pronotum with 
