. Hymenoptera ... y punctured, granulate; abdomen black, shining, notgranulate, with punctures finer and more scattered ; mandibles,antenna) and legs yellow ; the whole insect covered with short,sparse, erect pale hairs, and a minute, fine, sericeous shining pu-bescence on the mandibles, head, antenna, thorax and legs, visibleonly in certain lights. For the rest the characters of the genus. $ . Similar to the ^ ; the ocelli placed very low do\, almostin the middle of the front of the head. (S . Mandibles short, triangtdar, rather wide, but not somewliat longer than broad, strongl
. Hymenoptera ... y punctured, granulate; abdomen black, shining, notgranulate, with punctures finer and more scattered ; mandibles,antenna) and legs yellow ; the whole insect covered with short,sparse, erect pale hairs, and a minute, fine, sericeous shining pu-bescence on the mandibles, head, antenna, thorax and legs, visibleonly in certain lights. For the rest the characters of the genus. $ . Similar to the ^ ; the ocelli placed very low do\, almostin the middle of the front of the head. (S . Mandibles short, triangtdar, rather wide, but not somewliat longer than broad, strongly constricted behindthe eyes and up to the occipital articulation. Concavity in front DREPANOGNATHrS. 51 shorter and broader than in I), venator. Posterior face of the meta-notum strongly margined. Yvcat abdominal segment pyriformelongate as in TJ. venator. No constriction between the basal twosegments. A small median carina behind the occiput. Smoothand shining. Metanotum, pedicel and a part of the sides of the. Fig. 29. —Drrpanognathus saltator, ^. a. Mandibles. mesonotum coarsely rugose. Some fovese or obsolete striae on therest of the thorax. Pilosity as in D. venator. Reddish brown,the pedicel darker. Abdomen brown. Legs and antennae paletestaceous. AVings hyaline, nervures and stigma very pale.{Forel.) Leiif/th, ^ 14-17; $17; d 95 mm. Hah. Western India, Mysore, Kanara ( Wroughto)i), Tra^ancore(FenjHSOii); Ceylon (Green): China? (Smith). 60. Drepanognathus venator, Smith, Cat. vi (1858), p. 82, ^; Forel,(Harpegnathus) Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiii (1900), pp. 63 & 64, ^ . Black; mandibles,clypeus, antennal cariute and legs brownishyellow, antennae castaneous, apex of the abdomen ferruginous;head and thorax closely coarselj^ cribrate punctate ; abdomenfinely densely reticulate punctate, opaque, with some large shal-low punctures. Head, thorax and abdomen covered with rathersparse, short, erect pale hairs ; pubescence miuute but fairlyplentiful, to be seen only in certain l
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