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Thorax covered with long white hairs ; the mesonotum 

 closely punctured ; the scutellum at the base smooth, 

 impunctate ; post-scutellum rugose ; the median segment 

 reticulated ; its top on the oblique apex with a deep oval, 

 impunctate depression ; a wide deep oblique depression 

 on the mesopleura. The basal segment of the abdomen 

 black ; its apex, the second segment and the base of the 

 third, ferruginous ; the base and apex thickly covered 

 with long white hair; the basal ventral segment ferru- 

 ginous at the sides. 



Pison (Parapison) Rothneyi, sp. nov. (PL 4, f. 15). 



Nigrum, argenteo-pilosum ; mandibulis geniculis, tibiisque 

 anticis rufis ; alts hyalinis. 2. Long. 6 — 7 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Black, shining, covered with silvery pubescence. Head 

 finely punctured, covered with short fuscous pubescence, 

 except at the incision of the eyes ; the cheeks thickly 

 and the clypeus more sparsely covered with silvery pubes- 

 cence ; an indistinct shallow longitudinal furrow below 

 the ocelli ; the mandibles and palpi rufous. Antennae 

 black ; the apical three joints rufous beneath ; covered 

 with sparse fuscous pubescence. Thorax shining, impunc- 

 tate ; sparsely covered with white pubescence, especially 

 at the sides and base ; the median segment with a broad 

 longitudinal furrow extending from the base to the middle 

 of the segment. Pleurae sparsely covered with short white 

 hairs ; the apex of the propleurae brownish and surrounded 

 by a fringe of silvery pubescence ; in the centre of the 

 mesopleura is a deep short depression, a little longer than 

 wide ; the sternum deeply and widely excavated. Legs 

 black, thickly covered with short silvery pubescence ; the 

 apical third of the fore femora, the front tibiae entirely, 

 the hinder side of the middle, the basal three-fourths 

 of the hinder, the hinder knees and the calcaria, rufo- 



