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closely transversely striated ; the extreme apex in the 

 middle black. Postscutellum black, smooth, shining, 

 impunctate. The base of the median segment narrowly 

 black ; its middle smooth, broadly furrowed ; the sides 

 closely punctured ; the apex with a broad semicircular 

 black band. Pro- and meso-pleurae shining, smooth ; the 

 base of the meso- broadly, its apex more narrowly on the 

 lower side, black ; the metapleurae obscurely punctured 

 in the middle ; the base and apex lined with black. Meso- 

 sternum narrowly, but rather deeply, furrowed down the 

 middle, laterally marked with two transverse rows of fuscous 

 lines. Except for the apical fuscous cloud, the wings are 

 hyaline ; the costa, stigma and nervures black ; the recur- 

 rent nervure interstitial ; the transverse median nervure is 

 received distinctly behind the basal nervure, Legs yellow 

 like the body ; the apex of the hind coxae broadly, the 

 base of the hinder tibiae and the apices of the tarsi, black. 

 Abdomen shining ; the bases of the segments narrowly, 

 their apices more broadly, black ; the black part on the 

 apices impunctate ; on the base punctured like the rest of 

 the segments ; the apical segments only black in the 

 middle. 



Epirh^ssa ANNULICORNIS, Sp. nov. 



Cceriilea, fidvo-maculata ; antennis mgris, medio late 

 albolineatis ; pedibus fulvis, tarsis posticis albis ; alls hya- 

 linis, basi albis, stigmate nigro. ? . 



Long. 17 ; terebra fere 15 mm. 



Antennae slender, thickly covered with a black, micro- 

 scopic pile ; the scape testaceous beneath ; there is a 

 long, white band beyond the middle ; the apex itself is 

 broadly white, except the terminal joint, which i.s black. 

 Head shining, blue ; the cheeks broadly, the sides of the 

 clypeus more narrowly (and with the yellow obliquely 



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