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by the recurrent nervures subequal ; radial cell rather short, truncate at 

 apex. 



$. Similar, but eyes much wider apart ; anterior femora deeply cmarginate 



at base. 



II ab, — Dee?a ; common. 



Length.- 9 6 mm. ^ 5. mm 



Larra simiUima (Smith). 



This species was common at Deesa in June, and I have specimens from Mt. 

 Abu and Jubbulpore The ^ is very unlike the 9, and has not yet been 

 described, unless it is the form described by Cameron as fuxcipemiis. 



$. Head and thorax closely punctured, the extreme anterior margin of the 

 clypeus smooth and shining, the vertex less strongly punctured than the 

 front; mesonotum more strongly but less closely pnnctuicd than the 

 median segment, on which in the centre above the punctures run into trans- 

 verse striae ; on the scutellum and postscutellum the punctures are finer than 

 on the rest of the thorax ; abdomen very finely and closely punctured. 

 Anterior margin of clypeus produced in the centre, with a slight median 

 indentation, and emarginate on either side of the produced portion ; 1st joint 

 of flagellum rather shorter than the two following united ; the portion of 

 the front about the ocelli somewhat depressed ; mesonotum with a median 

 longitudinal impression at base ; median segment roundly truncate posteriorly ; 

 abdomen with the apical margin of the segments slightly depressed ; pygidium 

 closely punctured, very slightly pubescent. Head and thorax with dtnse but 

 somewhat short greyish pubescence; antennae, legs, and abdomen pruinose. 

 Black ; the greater part of the first three abdominal segments dull red, apical 

 margins of the remaining segments rufescent. Wings fusco-hj aline, almost 

 hyaline at base ; nervures, and stigma brownish testaceous ; tegulae shining 

 testaceous, their margins punctured. 



Hab, — Deesa, 



Length.— 11-14 mm. 



