136 Timehri. 



with white pubescence. The temples are longer than in the male and are 

 slightly, roundly narrowed. H. curvispina may form the type of a new genus ; 

 the narrowed transverse thorax and with it clearly separated; by being nar- 

 rowed, from the mesonotum is different from what it is in the other genera, 

 in which the base of the thorax is roundly narrowed. 



Hophpria curvispina, sp. n. 



Black, shining, the greater part of the 2nd ventral abdominal segment 

 mfo-piceouS; legs of a darker rufo-piceous colour, the thickened part of the 

 hind femora and the hind tibiae and tarsi fuscous, the head and pronotum 

 sparsely covered with longish fuscous hair ; the metapleurse. metanotum and 

 petiole densely covered with long white pubescence, wings hyaline, slightly 

 tinged with fuscous, highly iridescent, the nervures black. Post-scutellar 

 spine large, broad at the base, the upper narrowed part thinner, but stout, 

 curved, the apex with the lower part forming a broad, rounded curve. Face 

 below the antennae forming in the centre a flat plate, gradually roundly nar- 

 rowed to a sharp point at the apex, its centre slightly depressed ; from it a 

 keel runs down to the clypeus, its apex triangularly dilated. Occiput trans- 

 verse, stoutly margined. Base of thorax transverse, narrowed, forming a 

 distinct collar ; from it tothetegulae the mesonotum is roundly curved inwardly. 

 Parapsidal furrows deep, complete and scutellar foveas large, deep, longi-h 

 ova'. Spine long, triangular below as seen from the side, dilated, the spine 

 above curved, behind forming a semicircuJe with the lower part. Pleura) 

 broadly margined below, the keol on the propleurae stouter than on the meso- 

 pleurae. the hinder half.narrower than the anterior. Abdominal petiole about 

 four times longer than wide of equal width, shorter than the 2nd segment ; the 

 rest of the abdomen forms an elonagted o\al. Antennae as long as the body, 

 hardly tapering towards the apex, densely covered with short stiff blackish 

 pubescence. Abdominal petiole keeled laterally above and below and with 

 2 keels down the centre, the lower of these being stouter than the others. 

 Male. Length, 3 mm. 



The 3rd antennal joint is about one quarter longer than the 4th and is 

 as long as the scape. 



Hophpria picicornis, sp. n. 



Black, the basal eight joints of the antennae dark rufo-testaceous, the base 

 of the scape blackish, the apical five joints (forming a club) piceous ; the scape 

 bearing longish white hair, the flagellum more densely covered with shorter 

 white pubescence : the greater part of the 2nd and 3rd ventral segments piceous 

 cms ; legs dark rufo-testaceous ; wings not very clear hyline. the nervures 

 dark testaceous : the edges are fringed with long hair : the wings are pilose 

 and very iridescent Head sparsely, the collar more densely and the rneta- 

 thorax and abdominal petiole still more densely covered with long white hair. 

 Female. Length, 3 mm. 



The basal two joints of the flagellum are twice longer than »vide, the 3rd, 

 4th and 5th about one-half longer than wide, these being all of eqiuJ width, 

 the 6th longer than wide, oval, the next thicker, narrowed at the base, the 



