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striated, the striations regular and well marked, the posterior face on 

 each side ending in a well marked shoulder or ridge, anterior to which 

 are two small tubercles ; wings bright ferruginous, with an obsolete 

 narrow fuscous border ; legs ferruginous, the posterior and interme- 

 diate tibiae and tarsi well serrated. Abdomen black, with a silky lustre, 

 the 5th and apical segments with bright ferruginous pubescence, and 

 their posterior margins with a fringe of stiff hairs of the same colour. 



7. Priocnemis crinttus, n. sp. 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Female : Length 8 lines ; expanse 15 lines. 



Description : $ . Head black, clothed with a short dense golden 

 pubescence intermixed with long silky hairs of the same colour ; man- 

 dibles yellow, the tips dark brown ; antennas, the scape and two 

 basal joints of the flagellum golden yellow, the remainder of the latter 

 fuscous deepening into dark brown on the apical joints. Thorax 

 black, the pro and mesothorax having long silky rather scanty golden 

 pubescence, the scutellum, postscutellum, and metathorax clothed 

 more densely with the same, the metathorax convex, with a central 

 longitudinally impressed line; wings yellow hyaline, their apical 

 margins faintly bordered with dusky black, nervures and tegulae 

 yellow ; legs golden yellow, the coxae and basal portions of the femora 

 clothed with short golden pubescence, the apical joints of the tarsi 

 and the claws dusky black ; the tibiae and tarsi of the intermediate 

 and posterior legs strongly serrated. Abdomen black, covered with 

 a thin short golden pubescence, and scattered long hairs of the same 

 colour, the pubescence is more dense, forming well marked bands on 

 the apical margins of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd segments ; the 4th and 

 following segments entirely clothed with golden pubescence. 

 8. Mygximia rubida, n. sp. 

 Habitat : Ceylon. 



Female: Length 10 lines; expanse 17 lines. 

 Male: Length 6 lines; expanse 12 J lines. 



Description : $ and $ alike, of a rich light chestnut red colour all 

 over, smooth and shining. Wings bright ferruginous hyaline, a white 

 transparent oblong spot with an opaque nucleus or centre at the base 

 of the 2nd discoidal cell, the 1st recurrent nervure unites with the 

 second transverso-cubital nervure ; the tibiae and tarsi of the interme- 



