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POBCILOTIPHIA ALBOMACULATA, sp. nov. (PI. fig. 6.) 



Nigra, flagello antennarum, abdominisque apice rufis, abdomine 

 albomaculato ; lineis pronoti, apice clypei tarsisque albis • alis hyalinis, 

 stigmate fusco ; nervis pallidis. $ 



Length. — 8 — 9 mm. 



Habitat. — Deesa. 



Antennae rufous, the scape black ; the apical joints slightly dilated 

 on the under-side ; the scape punctured and covered with white hair. 

 Head black ; the apex of the olypeus white ; the front rather strongly, 

 the vertex more finely, punctured ; the antennal tubercles smooth. 

 Clypeus closely punctured, bounded above laterally by oblique, deep 

 furrows. In front of the foreocellus is a deep pit ; the hair is long 

 and white. Mandibles rufous. Thorax black, punctured, covered with 

 longish white hair ; the hinder border of the pro-notum and a spot on 

 either side at the base, white. Median segment closely, rugosely 

 punctured ; the meta-notum in the middle closely, transversely striated ; 

 the striae are curved upwards. Pro- and meso-pleurse shining, sparsely 

 punctured ; the lower part of the meta-pleurse sparsely punctured, shin- 

 ing. Legs black ; the knees, the fore-tibise in front and the tarsi white ; 

 the hair is long, stiff and white. Abdomen black • the apex of the fifth 

 and its middle more broadly and the whole of the sixth and seventh seg- 

 ments rufous ; a line on the middle of the basal five segments at the 

 apex and a mark on either side of it and a small mark on the apex of 

 the sixth, white. The petiole is smooth and shining, as is also the base 

 of the second and the basal half of the third and fourth segments, the 

 smooth and punctured portions being distinctly separated ; the rest of 

 the segments and the apical ones entirely punctured, strongly, but not 

 very closely, and covered with longish, white hair ; the spine is long, 

 curved, stout and rufous. The ventral segments are fringed with white 

 hair, and are strongly punctured. Wings clear hyaline; the stigma 

 and costa fuscous, the nervures paler ; the radius is oblique, and 

 straight at the base ; the apical abscissa is curved ; the first transverse 

 cubital nervure is elbowed shortly below the middle ; the second is 

 roundly curved ; the recurrent nervures are received about the same 

 distance from the base and apex of the cellule. 



Meira qdadeimaculata, sp. nov. (PI. fig. 5 9) 



Nigra, ore, mandibulis, abdomine tarsisque rufis ; abdomine quadri- 

 albomaculato ; alis hyalinis, nervis fuscis. ? 



