﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xlvii. 
  (1903), 
  No. 
  14. 
  21 
  

  

  and 
  plate-like 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  the 
  segment 
  is 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  longish 
  pale 
  hair. 
  The 
  pleurae 
  are 
  smooth 
  ; 
  the 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  propleurae 
  is 
  furrowed 
  ; 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   pleurae 
  is 
  depressed 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  side, 
  irregularly, 
  stoutly 
  

   striated 
  and 
  keeled 
  behind 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  is 
  obliquely 
  

   depressed 
  and 
  bears 
  a 
  few 
  keels 
  ; 
  the 
  metapleurae 
  smooth, 
  

   except 
  for 
  some 
  short 
  striae 
  below 
  the 
  upper 
  curved 
  keel. 
  

   The 
  wings 
  have 
  a 
  faint 
  fulvous 
  tint 
  ; 
  the 
  stigma 
  is 
  testa- 
  

   ceous 
  ; 
  the 
  areolet 
  is 
  large, 
  almost 
  square 
  ; 
  the 
  transverse 
  

   cubital 
  nervures 
  are 
  parallel 
  ; 
  the 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  

   received 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  transverse 
  cubital 
  

   nervure 
  is 
  faint 
  ; 
  the 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  is 
  largely 
  bullated 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle. 
  The 
  legs 
  are 
  dull 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  four 
  anterior 
  

   coxae 
  and 
  trochanters 
  are 
  paler 
  ; 
  the 
  hinder 
  coxae 
  are 
  black, 
  

   except 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  above 
  ; 
  the 
  femora 
  above, 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  

   the 
  tibiae 
  broadly, 
  and 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  tarsi 
  are 
  black 
  ; 
  

   the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  tarsi 
  white. 
  Abdomen 
  black 
  above 
  ; 
  the 
  

   apices 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  segments 
  narrowly 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Etha 
  PLUMBEA, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Pluvibea 
  ; 
  facie, 
  ore, 
  apiceque 
  metanoti 
  flavis 
  ; 
  pedibus 
  

   flavis, 
  coxis 
  posticis, 
  femoribus 
  supra, 
  tibiis 
  basique 
  tar- 
  

   sorum 
  posticorum 
  nigris 
  ; 
  a/is 
  Jiyalinis, 
  stigmate 
  nigro. 
  $. 
  

  

  Long. 
  10 
  mm. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black, 
  annulated 
  with 
  white 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   middle 
  ; 
  the 
  scape 
  dirty 
  testaceous 
  beneath 
  : 
  the 
  flagellum 
  

   thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  stiff 
  hair. 
  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  

   face, 
  clypeus, 
  the 
  lower 
  inner 
  orbits, 
  a 
  line 
  on 
  them 
  above 
  

   the 
  antennae, 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  orbits 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  side, 
  

   yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  face 
  and 
  clypeus 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  

   white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  roundly 
  dilated 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  

   the 
  raised 
  part 
  bordered 
  by 
  a 
  blackish 
  line. 
  The 
  front 
  

   and 
  vertex 
  are 
  very 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining 
  ; 
  the 
  front 
  is 
  

   widely 
  furrowed 
  below 
  the 
  ocelli. 
  Thorax 
  smooth 
  and 
  

  

  