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the base of the scape black ; covered with long golden 

 hairs on the underside. Head shining, sparsely haired ; 

 covered with large distinctly separated punctures ; the 

 mandibles ferruginous; sparsely covered on the lower side 

 w r ith long golden hairs ; the teeth are black. Pro- and 

 meso-notum with scattered punctures except at the apices ; 

 the scutellum with a few punctures at the apex. Median 

 segment alutaceous; the three keels complete. Propleurae 

 alutaceous, smooth and shining above ; the mesopleurae 

 punctured, alutaceous at the top ; the metapleurae strio- 

 lated throughout, much more finely at the base. Legs 

 thickly covered with white hairs ; the tibial spines pale ; 

 the four anterior tarsi ; the front tibiae behind and the 

 middle tibiae entirely ferruginous; the hinder tarsi ferru- 

 ginous; the calcaria and tarsal spines pale fulvous. 

 Wings hyaline, suffused with fuscous ; the nervures 

 fuscous; the stigma black; the second recurrent nervure 

 received in the apical third of the cellule. Abdomen 

 shining, sparsely covered with long white hairs ; the 

 transverse depression on the apex of the petiole closely 

 and coarsely punctured at the sides, more widely and 

 sparsely at the middle ; the puncturing on the dorsal 

 segments becomes closer and coarser towards the apical ; 

 the last shining, impunctate, piceous broadly at the apex. 



METHOCA. 



Smith described two Indian species of Methoca, under 

 the same name — orientalis — (Cat. Hym. III., 66) from 

 Northern India and another, renamed Smithii by Magretti 

 {Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii., p. 259), taken by Mr. 

 Rothney at Barrackpore {Trans. Ent. Soc., 187 5, p. 35). 

 Both were described from males; and represent, so far 

 as can be judged from the descriptions, different species. 

 The undernoted female is, I should say, quite distinct 

 from either. 



