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ocellus; postocellar area convex, well defined; its length and width 

 subequal; inner margins of eyes subparallel, the distance between 

 them at the antennae distinctly more than the length of an eye; 

 malar space nearly as long as the apical width of pedicellum; antennae 

 long, filiform, third, fourth, and fifth joints subequal, the remaining 

 shorter and each joint shorter than the preceding; mesonotum, shining, 

 almost impunctate; scutellum flat; mesepisternum above coarsely 

 reticulato-granular; lower part of mesepisternum and the entire 

 sternum polished; abdomen polished; sheath straight above obliquely 

 truncate apically then gradually widening to base; hind basitarsus 

 subequal in length with the following joints: claws cleft, the inner 

 tooth larger; wings slender, the hind unusually narrowed apically; 

 interradius curved, joining the radius a short distance beyond the 

 middle of the third cubital cell; recurrent veins join cubitus near base 

 of cells; nervulus its length beyond basal; no discal cells in hind wing. 

 Black; base of mandibles, labrum, clypeus, palpi, supraclypeal area, 

 spot on scutellum, hind coxae above, sides of first, second, third, 

 fourth, and the entire terminal tergite, and hind tarsi except basal 

 two-thirds of first joint, whitish; posterior margin of pronotum, 

 tegulae, spot on side of pronotum, apical margins of second and third 

 tergites, four anterior legs (except coxae beneath), hind legs (including 

 coxae beneath) rufo-piceous or rufous; antennae brownish, joints five 

 and six blackish, seven and following whitish: wings hyaline, venation 

 dark brown, base of stigma yellowish. 



In the paratypes the apical margins of tergites two and three are 

 broadly testaceous. 



Type locality. — Shillong, 5,000 feet (about 1,515 meters), British 

 India. 



Described from three females (one type) collected in June and 

 July, 1918, by T. B. Fletcher, for whom the species is named. 



Type.— Cat. No. 2260S U.S.N.M. 



Paratype returned to office of Imperial Entomologist, Pusa, India. 



Subfamily Tenthredininae. 



Genus BELDONEA Cameron. 



Konow considered that Beldonea Cameron was synonymous with 

 MacropTiya Dahlbom, but after a study of the genotype of Cameron's 

 genus it seems to the writer that it should be considered as belonging 

 to a distinct group. In Konow's generic synopsis, 3 the genotype of 

 Beldonea runs to Perineum Hartig, but may be distinguished from 

 members of that genus by absence of the malar space, position of pro- 

 podeal spiracle, etc. Beldonea may be separated from Macrophya by 

 having both tibial spurs of anterior tibiae simple, by the smaller 



* Genera insect, fasc, 29, 1905, p. 118. 



