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golden pubescence ; the space where the hinder ocellus 

 should be, shining, smooth. Clypeus yellow, the apex 

 piceous; its centre raised and projecting into a stout 

 triangular tooth ; the mandibles yellow, piceous at the 

 apex. Antennae stout ; the basal joints with a minute 

 silvery pubescence ; the apex of the scape yellow ; the 

 ocellar space raised and surrounded, except in front, by 

 a furrow, and a wider furrow runs down the vertex. 

 Thorax alutaceous ; the scutellum finely punctured ; the 

 median segment at the apex finely punctured ; the 

 extreme apex minutely transversely striated ; the fovea is 

 wide and deep, sharply narrowed at the apex. The sides, 

 base, and apex of the mesonotum thickly covered with 

 golden hair; the hair on the meso- and meta-pleurae 

 silvery. Tegulae and a curved spot at the apex of the 

 pronotum yellow. Wings hyaline, the nervures and 

 costa fuscous, darker towards the apex. Legs black ; the 

 apical half of the fore femora, the apices of the four hinder 

 and the tibiae and tarsi clear yellow; the four hinder 

 tibiae broadly lined with black behind at the base; the 

 3 — 5 joints of the hinder tarsi infuscated. Abdomen 

 covered with a sericeous pubescence; the sides of the 

 dorsal and the apices of the apical ventral segments 

 obscure testaceous ; the apical segment for the greater 

 part rufous. 



PlSON ORIENTALE, Sp. UOV. 



Long. 8 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Comes near to P. striolatum, but differs in the 

 striolated metapleurae. Entirely black; head and thorax 

 thickly covered with long fuscous hairs ; the face more 

 closely covered with silvery hair. Front rugosely punc- 

 tured ; behind the ocelli the punctures much finer and 

 more widely separated. Apex of clypeus shining, bare, 

 the apex in the middle produced into a small rounded 



