i6 Mr. Cameron on a 



oval, moderately deep. Metapleura: densely covered with 

 Ion"- white hair ; metanotum oblique. Abdomen com- 

 pressed, somewhat lenticular. Wings pilose; the radial 

 cellule twice longer than broad, the third abscissa of the 

 radius about three-fourths longer than the second ; cubitus 

 completely obsolete. 



In having converging parapsidal furrows, a closed 

 radial cellule and no abdominal hair fringe, this species 

 ao-rees with Gronatoma, but the pleurae are finely aciculated 

 and the metapleurre glabrous. 



LARRIDyE. 



PlAGETIA FASCIATIIPENNIS, Sp. nov. 



Nigra ; ore, antennis (basi et apice flagelli nigris),pro- 

 thorace, tegulis, metapleiiris, petiolo, pedibusqiie, rufotestaceis ; 

 clypeo bidentato ; alls hyalinis,fascia sidistiginatili fusca. $ . 

 Long. 7 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon {George Lezuis). 



Head opaque, granular, covered with a short microscopic 

 pile. Eyes at the top separated by about the length of the 

 second and third antennal joints united. Vertex broadly 

 depressed, a wide, but not deep, furrow leading down from 

 the centre of the depression. Front and clypeus covered 

 with short silvery pubescence ; three broad furrows on the 

 former. Clypeus projecting, broadly carinate in the middle ; 

 the apex ending in two large projecting, somewhat triangu- 

 lar, teeth. Tips of mandibles black. Scape of the antennae 

 as long as the following two joints united ; the third three 

 times the. length of the second, and a little longer than the 

 fourth. Thorax opaque, almost granular, covered with a 

 microscopic pile, the apex of metathorax with longish white 

 hair ; the metanotum finely transversely rugose ; the apex 

 irregularly striolated, and with a wide furrow (narrowed at 

 the base and ape.x in the centre). Abdomen shining, the 



