﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliii. 
  (1899), 
  No. 
  3. 
  161 
  

  

  carinate. 
  The 
  keels 
  continued 
  down 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  to 
  

   the 
  raised 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  part 
  between 
  being 
  

   depressed, 
  broadly 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  narrowly 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  

   second 
  segment 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  black 
  bifurcating 
  to 
  

   the 
  furrow 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  broad, 
  continuous, 
  

   transverse 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  third, 
  a 
  line 
  about 
  

   three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  broad 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

   fourth, 
  a 
  continuous 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  fifth, 
  a 
  short 
  mark 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  sixth, 
  and 
  an 
  almost 
  complete 
  

   one 
  across 
  the 
  seventh 
  segment, 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  sheaths 
  of 
  the 
  

   ovipositor 
  black. 
  

  

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  nov. 
  

  

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  nigromaculatis 
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  Long. 
  1 
  3 
  ; 
  terebra 
  2 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  body, 
  the 
  scape 
  yellow, 
  largely 
  

   marked 
  with 
  black 
  above 
  ; 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  

   hair 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  brownish 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Face 
  closely 
  

   punctured, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  pale 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  not 
  quite 
  so 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  its 
  depressed 
  

   apex 
  punctured 
  like 
  the 
  base. 
  The 
  mandibles 
  coloured 
  

   like 
  the 
  face, 
  with 
  the 
  teeth 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  palpi 
  similarly 
  

   coloured 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  white 
  hair. 
  The 
  ocelli 
  

   are 
  in 
  a 
  black 
  patch, 
  the 
  black 
  extending 
  beyond 
  them 
  all 
  

   round. 
  The 
  middle 
  lobe 
  of 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  bearing 
  large 
  

   punctures 
  ; 
  between 
  the 
  tegulae 
  are 
  three 
  large, 
  black, 
  

   marks 
  ; 
  the 
  central 
  almost 
  square, 
  the 
  lateral 
  dilated 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  side 
  into 
  a 
  point 
  half 
  its 
  length. 
  

   Scutellum 
  pyramidal 
  ; 
  more 
  obliquely 
  depressed 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  than 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  where 
  the 
  slope 
  is 
  longer 
  ; 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long, 
  pale 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  stoutly 
  keeled, 
  the 
  

   keels 
  not 
  leaf-like. 
  On 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment 
  

   is 
  a 
  black 
  band, 
  which 
  extends 
  to 
  the 
  lateral 
  basal 
  keels 
  ; 
  

  

  