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tinge, the former with a semicircular incision. Mandibles 

 yellowish, the edges black, the apices piceous and black ; 

 the palpi pallid yellow. Mesonotum punctured, thickly 

 covered with fuscous hair ; the furrow on the basal lobe 

 wide and deep, complete. Scutellum not much raised, 

 rounded, covered with large punctures and with long, 

 fuscous hair ; the postscutellum smooth and shining, 

 impunctate ; the depression between the cenchri black. 

 Propleurae smooth, the apex of the lower half black. 

 Mesopleurae finely and closely punctured, especially at 

 the base ; the middle with some large, deep punctures ; 

 thickly covered with pale hair, as is also the mesosternum. 

 The fore coxse and trochanters are black below ; the 

 femora, tibiae, and base of tarsi, yellowish in front, as are 

 also their middle, but not so clearly ; behind they are lined 

 with black ; the posterior coxae are also lined with black 

 before and behind above ; the trochanters and femora 

 are black above ; the tarsi yellowish-white. Wings fulvo- 

 hyaline, the fore pair distinctly smoky ; the stigma and 

 costa reddish fulvous ; the first and second cubital cellules 

 together are as long as the third ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is received shortly before the middle ; the second 

 near the basal fourth. Abdomen black above : the basal 

 segments almost entirely black ; the apical thickly covered 

 with pale pubescence. 



SlOBLA RUFICOLLIS Sp. nov. 



Nigro-caerulea ; thorace rufo, mesosterno nigro, abdominis 

 basi albolineato ; pedibus albis, femoribus tibiisque nigro- 

 maculatis ; tarsis posterioribus nigris ; alis kyalinis, apice 

 late fumatis. ^ et $ . 



Long. 10 mm. 



Antennae stout, the apical joints thinner ; thickly 

 covered with short, black, stiff hair ; they are slightly 



