﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  21 
  

  

  Head 
  shining 
  ; 
  the 
  face 
  and 
  clypeus 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   silvery 
  pubescence, 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  with 
  longer 
  black 
  

   hair. 
  The 
  vertex 
  is 
  bordered 
  by 
  a 
  shallow, 
  smooth 
  and 
  

   shining 
  furrow, 
  which 
  is 
  widest 
  behind 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  ocellus 
  

   is 
  bordered 
  by 
  a 
  smooth 
  furrow 
  ; 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  narrow, 
  

   longitudinal 
  one 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  somewhat 
  

   triangularly 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Mandibles 
  entirely 
  

   black, 
  shining. 
  Thorax 
  rufous 
  ; 
  the 
  sternum 
  black 
  ; 
  

   covered 
  rather 
  thickly 
  with 
  long 
  pale 
  hair. 
  Pro- 
  and 
  

   meso-notum 
  thickly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  parapsidal 
  furrows 
  are 
  

   distinct 
  to 
  near 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  punctured 
  

   like 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  ; 
  the 
  post-scutellum 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  

   finely 
  punctured. 
  Median 
  segment 
  reticulated 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  is 
  an 
  elongated 
  area 
  which 
  is 
  narrowed 
  

   and 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  Propleurse 
  punctured 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  side 
  before 
  the 
  apex 
  are 
  four 
  stout, 
  

   longitudinal 
  keels 
  ; 
  the 
  mesopleurse 
  similarly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   the 
  apex 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  longitudinal 
  keels. 
  Metapleurae 
  

   reticulated 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  with 
  deep 
  punctures 
  ; 
  the 
  two 
  parts 
  

   being 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  smooth, 
  shallow 
  band. 
  Mesosternum 
  

   closely 
  and 
  strongly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  furrowed 
  ; 
  

   the 
  basal 
  half 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  calcaria 
  pale, 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   rufous. 
  Wings 
  fuscous, 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  violaceous 
  tinge 
  ; 
  

   the 
  nervures 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  apical 
  faint 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  cubital 
  

   cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  is 
  distinctly 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  third 
  ; 
  the 
  

   second 
  transverse 
  cubital 
  nervure 
  is 
  straight 
  above, 
  sharply 
  

   oblique 
  below 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  transverse 
  cubital 
  nervure 
  is 
  

   sharply 
  oblique, 
  only 
  curved 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  side. 
  Abdomen 
  

   shining 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  four 
  segments 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   silvery 
  hair 
  at 
  their 
  apices 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  segments 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  black 
  hair; 
  the 
  petiole 
  and 
  the 
  second 
  

   segment, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  strongly 
  

   punctured. 
  

  

  