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  Cameron, 
  Hymenoptera 
  Orietitalia. 
  

  

  hairs. 
  Scutellum 
  roundly 
  convex, 
  rugosely 
  punctured, 
  

   covered 
  with 
  long 
  blackish 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  post-scutellum 
  with 
  

   longer 
  pale 
  hair. 
  Median 
  segment 
  reticulated 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  

   part 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  depressed 
  white 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   the 
  central 
  area 
  short, 
  its 
  apex 
  triangular; 
  the 
  apical 
  

   slope 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair, 
  and 
  is 
  reticulated 
  ; 
  the 
  

   mesopleurae, 
  except 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  apex, 
  rugosely 
  punctured 
  

   and 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  white 
  hair; 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   metapleurse 
  irregularly 
  reticulated. 
  Legs 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  hair 
  on 
  the 
  fore 
  tarsi 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  

   calcaria 
  pale. 
  Wings 
  fusco-violaceous; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  both 
  

   wings 
  hyaline; 
  the 
  radial 
  cellule 
  wide; 
  the 
  basal 
  abscissa 
  

   of 
  the 
  radius 
  has 
  an 
  oblique 
  slope 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  is 
  

   almost 
  straight 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  cubital 
  cellule 
  is 
  slightly 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  second 
  on 
  the 
  top 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  transverse 
  

   cubital 
  nervure 
  is 
  roundly 
  curved 
  ; 
  the 
  third 
  sharply 
  

   angled 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Abdomen 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   segment 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  segments 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  bright 
  fulvous 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  densely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  fuscous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  keel 
  is 
  indistinct, 
  

   straight, 
  of 
  equal 
  height 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  two 
  segments 
  without 
  

   keels. 
  

  

  Forms 
  a 
  new 
  Section 
  in 
  Bingham's 
  table, 
  p. 
  9 
  : 
  "First 
  

   to 
  sixth 
  segments 
  red." 
  

  

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  FOVEATA, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

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  abdomine 
  mfo, 
  bast 
  apiceque 
  nigris 
  ; 
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  fitsczs, 
  

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  violaceis, 
  nervis 
  fuscis. 
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  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ceylon 
  (Yerbury). 
  

  

  Head 
  black; 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  long 
  grey 
  hairs 
  and 
  

   with 
  a 
  silvery 
  down 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  vertex 
  strongly, 
  but 
  

   not 
  closely, 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  distinctly 
  keeled 
  in 
  

  

  