No. 2361. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SAWFLIES— ROHWER. 109 



Type legality.— Kuma^ 6,000 feet (about 1,818 meters), Ramgark, 

 British India. 



Described from one female collected August, 1918, by T. B. Metcher 

 and forwarded by Imperial Entomologist of India. 



Type.— Oat. No. 22393, U.S.N.M. 



CROESUS ORIENTALIS, new species. 



In size and appearance resembles Croesus latitarsis Norton. 

 Female.— Length, 8.5 mm.; length of antenna, 8.5 mm. Clypeus 

 with a tranverse fold basally, the anterior margin with a deep, rather 

 narrow U-shaped emargination, lobes very broad and rounded; 

 supraclypeal area convex, trapezoidal in outline; supraclypeal foveae 

 large deep; confluent with the antennal foveae; middle fovea elongate, 

 deep; frontal crest prominent, unbroken ; ocellar basin poorly defined; 

 a distinct ridge from ocellar basin to near eye margin; postocellar 

 furrow angulate anteriorly, well denned; postocellar line subequal 

 with ocellocular line; vertical furrows deep well denned for half the 

 length of postocellar area; postocellar area one and one third times 

 wider anteriorly than its median length; front sculptured below the 

 ocelli, the vertex and temples shining, impunctate; antenna long, 

 strongly tapering, the third and fourth joints subequal; mesothorax 

 smooth and shining, with scattered setigerous punctures; hind 

 basitarsi similar to those of C. varius; sheath broad, straight above, 

 obliquily truncate apically, rounded below and tapering to base; 

 stigma long, gradually rounding to apex; recurrentella before inter- 

 cubitella by about length of latter. Black with a decided bluish 

 tinge to body; wings hyaline, dusky from beyond base of stigma, the 

 duskiness is deeper below stigma, venation black, stigma dark brown. 



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

 British India. 



Described from one female collected in September by T. B. Fletcher 

 and sent by Imperial Entomologist of India. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22392, U.S.N.M. 



