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transverse striae followed posteriorly by transverse ones curved 
mesially into longitudinal ones. Scutum of mesothorax nearly 
flat, with one median carina and a pair of lateral ones; legs 
rather slender. Very sparsely clothed with pale hairs, with a 
few dark ones on head and dorsum of thorax and abdomen. 
Type 14, paratype 10’, both College of Agriculture, Los Banos ; 
2 allotype, low Makiling forest, 1917. 
The male is very distinct from others of the genus; the female 
I place here with some doubt, though she is also well removed 
from the other species. 

Fig. 11. Methocas debilis, 6, X 9. 
Methoca debilis, n. sp. (Figs. 5 and 11.) 
Male, type: Length, 7.25 mm. Related to striatella. Shining 
black. Differs from striatella in its smaller average size, finer 
sculpture, slighter build, ete. The propodeum is much _ less 
coarsely sculptured, being rugose and showing well-defined 
areolae only on the middle basal portion; the propleurae have no 
vertical carinae, the first sternite is separately, punctured almost 
to its base, while in striatella it becomes rugose on the basal third. 
The apical sternites are about as in striatella. The genitalia are 
