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vertex, the mesonotum, except a U-shaped marked, a spot-behind the 

 tegulae, the base and median furrow of the median segment, the base 

 and apex of the abdominal segments, and small round lateral spots on 

 the latter, black ; antenna? and the bases and apices of some of the ab- 

 dominal segments more or less red ; pygidium yellow at base, red at 

 apex ; a little silvery pile on the front ; wings hyaline, nervures tes- 

 taceous, tegulas yellow ; the appendicular cell is not very clearly 

 marked, tri9 third cubital cell reaches considerably beyoud the radial 

 cell, the third cubital nervure being received near the apex of the 

 radial cell, which is broadly rounded ; the second cubital cell, which is 

 only very slightly stalked, receives both recurrent nervures, the first 

 well within its inner angle, and the second at a slightly greater distance 

 from its outer angle. 



$ Differs from the 9 as follows : first ventral segment with two 

 small tubercles, second ventral segment much produced below, pygidium 

 shorter, much broader, tridentate at apex, the middle tooth slightly, 

 but not much, longer than the lateral ones ; the third cubital nervure 

 is received farther from the apex of the radial cell and the first recurrent 

 nervure is interstitial, or nearly so, with the first transverse cubital 

 nervure. 



Long. 8-10 mm. 



Habitat : Deesa ; five specimens. One 9 has the yellow markings 

 much less developed than the others, and the greater part of the thorax, 

 especially below, is black. 



Palarus fabius, n. sp. 



9 Allied to P. quiescens above, but differs as follows : smaller 

 and less robustly built comparatively, mesonotum impunctate, abdomen 

 more sparsely punctured, thorax with long silvery pubescence, no 

 U-shaped mark on mesonotum, and less yellow on the thorax gene- 

 rally ; wings with the nervures paler testaceous, the first recurrent 

 nervure interstitial with the first transverse cubital nervure j all the 

 femora and sometimes the tarsi more or less red. 



9 Smaller than the same sex of P. quiescens ; the front, except the 

 clypeus, black, thorax darker and withont the U-shaped mark on the 

 mesonotum ; the black markings of the abdomen more developed, 

 pygidium with the central tooth much longer than the lateral ones, all 

 the femora more or less black. 



Long, 6-8 m«e. 



