﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliv. 
  (1900), 
  No. 
  15. 
  59 
  

  

  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  flagellum 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  microscopic 
  down. 
  Vertex 
  

   strongly, 
  but 
  not 
  closely, 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  part 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  

   of 
  the 
  ocelli 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  the 
  hair 
  long 
  and 
  white. 
  Front 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair, 
  which 
  is 
  longer 
  

   above 
  and 
  between 
  the 
  antennae. 
  Face 
  smooth, 
  finely 
  

   transversely 
  striated 
  over 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  which 
  is 
  flat 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle. 
  Base 
  of 
  mandibles 
  covered 
  with 
  silvery 
  pubes- 
  

   cence 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  below 
  with 
  long 
  golden 
  hair. 
  Palpi 
  

   dark 
  testaceous. 
  Pronotum 
  closely 
  punctured 
  and 
  thickly 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  mesonotum 
  more 
  strongly, 
  

   and 
  not 
  so 
  closely, 
  punctured 
  and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   fuscous 
  pubescence. 
  Scutellum 
  large, 
  pyramidal, 
  coarsely 
  

   and 
  deeply 
  punctured 
  ; 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   dark, 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  much 
  longer 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  slope 
  is 
  an 
  irregularly 
  twisted, 
  smooth 
  

   keel. 
  Median 
  segment 
  stoutly 
  irregularly 
  reticulated, 
  

   except 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  area 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  the 
  area 
  

   does 
  not 
  reach 
  quite 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   segment, 
  is 
  V-shaped 
  with 
  the 
  apex 
  rounded 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  

   slope 
  is 
  coarsely 
  reticulated 
  with 
  a 
  keel 
  down 
  the 
  middle. 
  

   Propleurae 
  obliquely 
  striated 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth 
  and 
  raised 
  

   Mesopleurae 
  coarsely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  thickly 
  covered 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  smooth 
  and 
  

   glabrous. 
  Mesosternum 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  sparsely 
  

   punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  area 
  stoutly 
  keeled 
  down 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  the 
  

   keels 
  converging 
  towards 
  the 
  apex. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  calcaria 
  white. 
  Wings 
  violaceous; 
  

   the 
  first 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  is 
  about 
  one-fourth 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  second 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  

   received 
  shortly 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  in 
  the 
  

   apical 
  fourth. 
  Abdomen 
  ferruginous 
  ; 
  the 
  petiole 
  and 
  the 
  

   apical 
  segment 
  for 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  

   segments 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  fulvous 
  hair; 
  the 
  last 
  

   segment 
  with 
  the 
  hair 
  paler 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  smooth 
  down 
  the 
  

  

  