MICllOUOX. rAllAMIXOGASTEU, 3] 9 



carried over the edge to the under side. 4th segment wholly 

 fernigiuous-red, nearly bare, except for a little concolorous hair 

 at tip. Ler/s Avith fore coxic tawny, posterior coxa? blackish, all 

 coxae with bright short golden-ydlow hair. Keniainder of l(\gs 

 wholly bright tawny-red, unmarked. \Vin(/s dark grey, distinctly 

 blackisli at tip and bright yellowish-tawny from the anterior 

 border down to the vena apuria, this colour extending distally to 

 a little beyond the end of the upper basal cell. 



Length, 13 mm. 



Described originally from a perfect unique example {tjj-pe) in 

 my collection, sent to me by Mr. E. E. Green, taken at Kandy in 

 October 1907. I have also seen specimens from Pashoke, JJar- 

 jiling District (E. S. Lister)- Talewadi, N. Kanara District, 

 3-lU. x. 1916 {Kemp). Sack has recently recorded this species 

 from Formosa. 



Genus PARAMIXOGASTER, gen. nov. 

 Genotype, Mixogaster vespiformis, Brun. 



. Head nearly hemispherical, as broad as thorax ; eyes bare, 

 widely separated, frons forming half the width of the head, with 

 parallel sides, well elevated ; a transverse impressed line extends 

 on each side from the upper corner of the eye down to the base 

 of the antenna ; face an broad as frons, \\\t\\ imrallel sides and 

 with a not very distinct impressed transversa line below autennse. 

 Antennae contiguous at base, approximately cylindrical; 1st joint 

 moderately long, 2nd so minute as to be easily overlooked, 3rd 

 nearly six times as long as 1st, slightly sinuate, gradually in- 

 creasing in size nearly lo the ratlier blunt tip. arista bare, 

 sub-i)asal. Thorax short, rather broader thar. lontr, barely arched, 

 quadrangular with rounded hind corners; scutellum rather small, 

 unarmed. Abdomen nearly twice as long as thorax and scutellum 

 together, distinctly compressed to less than half its greatest width 

 in the region of the 1st segment and basal half of the 2nd seg- 

 ment; let segment rather short, 2n(l the longest, remainder of 

 abdomen forming a short club. Genitalia mainly concealed. L,cgs 

 moderately long and strong, simple. Wrings of normal size-; 

 marginal cell wiih-ly open ; 3rd vein nearly straight, with a s|)ur 

 at middle of anterior margin of 1st |)Osterior cell ; anterior cro>s- 

 vein before first third of discal cell; apical section of 4th vein 

 recurrent, with a small appendix at flexure ; r)tli vein almost 

 recurrent, rounded at llexure. 



Jiamji'. 'I'he only known specifS is recorded from Assam. 



1 J tfe-h is tori/ unknown. 



On my examining species of ]\Iac(puirt.'s genus Mixoijitsler in 

 the British Museum from various regions, it became apparent 

 that my ves/jifonn is is not congeneric; the differences lie in the 

 structure of the anteniue and in the venation. In the various 

 species (named and unnamed) of Mixogaster in flie liritish 

 Museum, the 1st posterior cell often lias on its hinder side a 



