﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliii. 
  (1899), 
  No. 
  3. 
  173 
  

  

  posticarum 
  late 
  flavis 
  ; 
  abdominis 
  segmentis 
  albolineatis 
  ; 
  

   alis 
  fusco-hyalinis, 
  nervis 
  stigmateque 
  tiigris. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  15 
  ; 
  terebra 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  covered 
  with 
  longish, 
  pale 
  

   hair 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  densely 
  with 
  short, 
  stiff, 
  black 
  hair. 
  

   Head 
  black, 
  the 
  palpi 
  lemon-yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  face 
  strongly 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  face 
  bluntly 
  carinate, 
  

   the 
  raised 
  part 
  smooth 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  soft, 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  strongly 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  it 
  depressed, 
  smooth. 
  Front 
  broadly, 
  

   and 
  rather 
  deeply, 
  depressed 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth 
  and 
  im- 
  

   punctate 
  ; 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  obscurely 
  shagreened 
  ; 
  stoutly 
  

   keeled 
  down 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  orbits 
  distinctly 
  mar- 
  

   gined. 
  The 
  mandibles 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  

   Thorax 
  black 
  ; 
  a 
  large, 
  yellow 
  mark 
  on 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  

   rounded 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  narrowed 
  slightly 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   which 
  is 
  slightly 
  roundly 
  incised. 
  Mesonotum 
  minutely 
  

   punctured, 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  fuscous 
  hair. 
  The 
  

   basal 
  slope 
  of 
  the 
  scutellum 
  has 
  large, 
  scattered, 
  punctures 
  ; 
  

   the 
  apical 
  slope 
  is 
  oblique 
  and 
  is 
  strongly 
  rugosely 
  punc- 
  

   tured. 
  The 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  postscutellum 
  is 
  oblique 
  ; 
  the 
  

   centre 
  is 
  shining, 
  obscurely 
  striated 
  ; 
  the 
  depression 
  at 
  its 
  

   side 
  wide 
  and 
  deep, 
  the 
  bottom 
  obscurely 
  crenulated. 
  

   Median 
  segment 
  broadly 
  raised 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  

   smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  centre 
  beyond 
  

   this 
  strongly 
  striated, 
  the 
  sides 
  more 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  

   striated. 
  Propleurae 
  strongly 
  shagreened, 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex 
  finely 
  striated 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  mesopleuree 
  sharply 
  

   keeled 
  ; 
  behind 
  this 
  keel 
  it 
  is 
  largely 
  and 
  obliquely 
  raised 
  ; 
  

   closely 
  punctured, 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  raised 
  part 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   furrowed 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  behind 
  this 
  is 
  punctured, 
  but 
  not 
  

   strongly; 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth, 
  the 
  lower 
  

   finely 
  closely 
  longitudinally 
  striated 
  ; 
  behind 
  this 
  it 
  is 
  

   strongly 
  crenulated, 
  the 
  apex 
  itself 
  being 
  smooth 
  behind 
  the 
  

  

  