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roundly produced in the middle. Thorax thickly covered 

 with long fuscous hair; the mesonotum strongly punc- 

 tured, particularly at the sides ; the centre of the 

 scutellum almost without punctures ; the median segment 

 at the base shagreened, the centre with a wide, deep 

 furrow, in which are a few stout transverse keels ; the 

 apex is irregularly and rather strongly transversely 

 striated, the striations coarser above than below ; there 

 is a deep furrow at the top. Propleurse coarsely 

 shagreened ; the mesopleurae strongly punctured and 

 without a furrow ; the basal half of the metapleurae 

 more shining and less pilose than the rest. Wings 

 hyaline, the nervures and stigma blackish ; the pedicle 

 of the petiole oblique, as long as the cellule ; the recur- 

 rent nervures are received somewhat less than half the 

 length of the cellule in front of the transverse cubital 

 nervures. Legs thickly covered with longish hair and 

 white pile ; the spurs pale testaceous at the base. 

 Abdomen thickly haired, and, at the apices of the seg- 

 ments, lined with silvery pubescence. 



. Pison (Parapison) crassicorne, sp. nov. 



Long. 5 mm. $ . 



Hob. Barrackpore (Rothney). 



Comes near to P. Rothneyi, but smaller, the furrow on 

 the median segment extending from the base to the 

 apex ; and the apex transversely striolated. 



Head: the vertex and front shagreened, covered with 

 a short fuscous pubescence ; the cheeks and clypeus 

 thickly covered with silvery pubescence ; the mandibles 

 and palpi pale testaceous. Antennae entirely black, dis- 

 tinctly thickened towards the apex. Thorax shining, the 

 pro- and meso-thorax impunctate, the oblique half of the 

 median segment transversely striated ; there is at its 

 base a narrowish furrow, and behind the striated part, 



