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rounded, slightly depressed in- the middle, and thickly- 

 covered v/ith long, blackish hairs, ^ Mandibles rufous, the 

 teeth black;, the palpi pale fulvous-yellow. Mesonotum 

 and scutellum strongly punctured, the scutellum more 

 strongly at the base, covered, but not thickly, with 

 longish, dark fuscous hair, the middle lobe is deeply and 

 widely hollowed in the middle ; the lateral furrow is 

 deeper and more clearly defined at the bottom near the 

 apex ; the lateral lobes are distinctly separated at the 

 apex by a wide, but not very deep, furrow, which has, at 

 its base, a narrow, longitudinal keel ; the depression at 

 the base of the scutellum is deep and smooth. The 

 scutellum is more coarsely punctured thanthe mesonotum. 

 The coxae, trochanters, and the greater part of the femora 

 dark blue, mixed with brassy tints ; the apical joint of the 

 trochanters testaceous ; the apex of the femora, the tibiae 

 and the tarsi stramineous ; the apices of the tarsi ferrug- 

 inous ; the claws are bifid. Wings fulvo-hy aline, a distinct 

 smoky cloud at the base of the stigma, darkest at the top. 

 Abdomen closely punctured, more strongly and closely 

 punctured on the basal segments ; the segments distinctly 

 convex, the depressions deep, smooth, the basal one 

 shagreened ; the keel on the basal segment is stout and 

 distinct, on the second narrower and less distinct, especially 

 towards the apex. 



Belongs toAbia, sensu Str., and comes near to A. niiens 

 L., except that the antennae are black. The antennae are 

 distinctly 7-jointed, the scutellum largely convex, distinctly 

 raised above the mesonotum ; the claws sharply bifid, and 

 the keels on the first and second abdominal segments 

 clearly defined ; the tarsal patellae well developed, and the 

 puncturing on the abdomen deep and well marked. 



Species of ^^2(2 have been recorded from China and 

 Japan, but none hitherto from the Oriental Region, proper. 



