Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xliii. (1899), No. 3. 43 



smooth, yellow, as are also the lateral keels. Pleurae 

 coarsely punctured, thickly covered with short, white 

 hair ; the propleurse black, rufous above, pallid yellow 

 below. Mesopleurse rufous, marked with yellow on the 

 lower part ; the base, apex and the mesosternum, black. 

 Metapleurse black. Legs pale testaceous ; the fore coxae 

 black at the base, the hinder pair black below ; the four 

 anterior femora marked broadly with black above ; the 

 four hinder tibiae broadly at the apex all round and above 

 the middle behind ; the tarsi are dark testaceous ; the 

 claws are bifid. The radial cellule is entirely brownish- 

 smoky, the smoky tint extending on to the top of the 

 cubital cellules. The basal half of the median segment 

 black, the apical yellowish, deeply furrowed down the 

 middle ; the other segments black, yellowish testaceous 

 on their apices ; the last segment entirely so ; the sheath 

 of the ovipositor pallid yellow. 



Selandria pilicornis, sp. nov. 



Nigra, abdominis basi late testaceo ; coxis, trochan- 

 teribus, tibiis anterioribus basique tibiarum posticarum 

 albidis ; alis fmnatis, basi fere hyalinis. ?. 



Long. 10 mm. 



Antennae as long as the head and thorax united, thickly 

 covered with long, stiff, black hair ; the third joint is 

 slightly, but distinctly, longer than the fourth. Head large, 

 largely developed behind the eyes, but not projecting 

 beyond them ; shining, impunctate, thickly covered with 

 fuscous hair, and with a bluish violet tint ; there is no 

 frontal area, nor any furrows or depressions on the vertex. 

 Clypeus strongly punctured, the apex transverse, the sides 

 rounded ; labrum white, thickly covered with long, white 

 hair ; mandibles piceous in the middle ; the palpi black, 

 covered with white hair. Thorax shining, impunctate, 



