106 THE ENTOMOLOGI8T. 



Head black, the inner orbits from the middle to shortly below the eyes 

 lemon-yellow, the band becoming wider below ; the face and clypeus, 

 except at the apex, closely and rather strongly punctured, and thickly 

 covered with white pubescence ; the apex of the clypeus is slightly 

 obliquely depressed and impunctate ; the front and vertex are closely 

 and distinctly punctured. Mandibles black, dark rufous near the 

 apex ; the palpi fuscous. Thorax entirely black, and thickly covered 

 with short white pubescence ; the scutellum is less closely punctured ; 

 the basal half of the post-scutellum is smooth, the apical closely punc- 

 tured. The base of the median segment is closely and somewhat 

 strongly punctured; the sides of the arese are irregularly striated. 

 Pleurae uniformly and distinctly punctured. Mesosternum thickly 

 covered with white pubescence. The four anterior tibiae in front and 

 the anterior femora above in front are pale testaceous ; tbe hinder 

 femora, except at the apex, are bright red ; the calcaria are black. 

 Wings clear hyaline, the nervures and stigma black ; the stigma 

 fuscous on the lower side ; the disco-cubital nervure is largely bullated 

 in front of the stump of a nervure ; the recurrent nervure bullated 

 above and below the stump. Petiole closely punctured ; the middle of 

 the post-petiole smooth ; the sides sparsely punctured ; the otber 

 segments are closely punctured and thickly covered with short white 

 pubescence ; the gastrocceli are shallow and stoutly striated at the 

 base ; the apex deep, wide, and aciculated. 



Anomalon apicate, sp. nov. 



Nigrum ; abdomine rufo, apice nigro ; facie, clypeo, scutello, post- 

 scutelloque flavis ; pedibus anterioribus flavis, posticis runs ; alis hya- 

 linis, stigmate fusco, nervis nigris. $ . Long. 16 mm. 



Hob. Simla (Nurse). 



Antennae testaceous, the second and the greater part of the fourth 

 joints black. Head black, below the antennae pale yellow ; the vertex 

 closely punctured ; the front with eight irregular keels on the central 

 part, which is also closely transversely striated ; the face closely and 

 distinctly punctured, and thickly covered with white pubescence ; the 

 base of the clypeus closely punctured, the apex almost impunctate. 

 Mandibles pallid yellow, their teeth black ; the palpi pallid yellow. 

 Thorax black ; the scutellum, post-scutellum, and tegulae yellow. 

 Mesonotum closely and rather strongly punctured, its centre at the base 

 raised ; the apex in the middle transversely irregularly striated. Scu- 

 tellum and post-scutellum coarsely punctured. Propleurae above 

 closely punctured ; the rest coarsely irregularly reticulated. Meso- 

 pleurae above irregularly longitudinally striated ; below closely punc- 

 tured. The median segment at- the base is closely rugosely irregularly 

 reticulated ; the lateral keels are roundly curved ; the space behind 

 these is smooth ; the apex behind is narrowed into a distinct neck, 

 and is irregularly transversely striated. Metapleurae coarsely irregu- 

 larly reticulated. Legs rufous; the anterior pair paler, more yellowish 

 in tint ; the four front coxae and trochanters pale yellow. Wings 

 hyaline, with a faint fulvous tinge at the base ; the stigma testaceous, 

 the nervures black. The second and third segments of the abdomen 

 are black above ; the apical two are entirely black. 



