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base of the hinder tibiae black ; the hinder tarsi dark 

 fuscous. The basal depression of the petiole smooth ; its 

 sides and apex strongly punctured; the other segments 

 are also strongly punctured, except the apical, which have 

 the punctuation much weaker; on the petiole the black 

 line is continuous; on the 2nd-5th segments there is a 

 longer central, and a smaller lateral black mark; on the 

 6th and 7th there is only a central line ; the cerci are 

 black and covered with longish pale hair. The sheaths of 

 the ovipositor are black and thickly covered with fuscous 

 hair, 



B. Black, the four anterior legs yellow. 



Ephialtis TINCTIPENNIS, Sp. nov. 



Niger ; pedibus posterioribus riifo-Jlavis ; alis fere 

 hyalinis, stigmatefusco ; antennis fuscis. $. 



Long. 19 mm. 



Antennae deep black ; the flagellum bare ; the scape 

 on the lower side thickly covered with long, pale fuscous 

 hair, and rather strongly punctured. Head deep black ; 

 the face and clypeus thickly covered with long, fuscous 

 hair ; the face strongly and uniformly punctured, thickly 

 covered with long, pale fuscous hair ; the orbits sharply 

 margined, depressed. Clypeus smooth, the apex testa- 

 ceous ; the middle with a large semicircular depression. 

 Mandibles black ; the palpi testaceous. Front and vertex 

 smooth, shining, sparsely covered with short, fuscous hair. 

 The pro- and meso-thorax shining, smooth ; the median 

 segment strongly uniformly punctured, the punctures 

 running into reticulations on the sides ; the apex above 

 with a semicircular smooth space. Scutellum with shallow, 

 widely separated punctures and covered with long, pale 

 fuscous hair ; the postscutellum minutely punctured, 



