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with dark brown pubescence ; the clypeus obscurely ferruginous ; 

 the head with fine scattered punctures. Thorax finely punctured, 

 distantly so on the mesothorax and scutellum ; the hiuder margin 

 of the prothorax obscurely ferruginous, the metathorax opaque; 

 the apical joints of the tarsi obscurely ferruginous. The basal 

 segment of the abdomen with a somewhat obscure lunate, ferru- 

 ginous, transverse spot ; the apical margins of the segments slightly 

 depressed, the depressions with a row of fine punctures ; the apical 

 segment rugose and covered with blackish-brown pubescence. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



5. Myzine combusta. 



Female. Length 8| lines. — Head and thorax black, legs and abdo- 

 men ferruginous. Head below the ocelli with rough confluent 

 punctures ; above, the vertex smooth and shining ; the antennae 

 and mandibles ferruginous. The prothorax strongly punctured 

 laterally, as are also the sides and beneath ; the metathorax trun- 

 cate, with one or two deep transverse grooves at the verge of the 

 truncation ; the tibiae and tarsi with dense ferruginous setae ; the 

 mesothorax with two deep longitudinal grooves on each side of 

 the disk ; the disk between the inner grooves yellow, between the 

 grooves themselves it is ferruginous ; wings hyaline, the nervures 

 ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining, the apical segment 

 longitudinally rugose ; beneath, the segments are punctured at their 

 apical margins. 



Hah. India (?) or Africa. 



6. Myzine pallida. 



Male. Length 3|-4 lines. — The head black, the rest of the insect 

 pale testaceous with pale rufous markings. The scape of the 

 antennae, the clypeus, and mandibles pale testaceous, nearly white ; 

 the flagellum fulvous. The thorax and legs whitish, with a pale 

 ferruginous tint at the sides and in front of the mesothorax ; some- 

 times the metathorax is more or less tinted with pale ferruginous ; 

 wings hyaline, the nervures testaceous, the stigma fuscous. Abdo- 

 men with pale, waved, ferruginous fasciae. 



Hah. India, North-west Provinces. 



7. Myzine orientalis, 



Male. Length 5| lines. — Black and much variegated with pale 

 yellowish-white. The scape of the antennae in front, the clypeus, 

 and mandibles pale yellow ; the antennae longer than the thorax, 

 the flagellum fulvous beneath. The prothorax, the tegulae, a spot 

 on the mesothorax, the scutellum, postscutellum, and legs pale 



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