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whitish pile ; the second joint is half the length of the third. 

 The pronotum has a slight incision in the middle behind ; 

 obliquely excavated laterally; shining and finely punctured. 

 The meta- is as long as the mesothorax, and is strongly 

 transversely punctured ; the puncturing being much 

 stronger than on the mesothorax ; the sides of the meta- 

 notum are somewhat depressed ; the pleurae becoming 

 narrowed from the top to the bottom. Pygidial area 

 shining, polished, with a few indistinct scattered punctures 

 along the sides and apex ; the sides with a raised margin 

 and with a furrow on the inner side of this margin ; the 

 apex broadly rounded, almost truncate. 



Oi Larra personata, Sibi, from Celebes, Smith remarks, 

 ^' This is probably merely a variety of L. siniillinia^ wanting 

 the black apex to the abdomen." 



Hab. Tirhoot, Bengal {Rothncy) ; " Africa " (Smith /. c). 



2. Larra, Sumatrana. 

 Kohl, Verh. z.-b. Ges, Wien, 1888, 354. 

 Hab. Sumatra. 



3. Larra fuscipennis, sp. nov. 



Nigra, argenteo pilosa, abdominis diniidio basali rufo, 

 medio nigro, alis fusco-fumatis, hasi sub Jiyalinis. 



Long. 12 — 13 mm. 



Hab. Tirhoot {Roihney). 



Antennae short, thick, tapering perceptibly towards the 

 apex ; the second joint nearly three-fourths of the length of 

 the third, which is fully one-fourth longer than the fourth. 

 Head shining, strongly punctured ; the punctures distinctly 

 separated. Ocellar region not raised and separated ; a 

 broad, transverse curved furrow behind it ; above the front 

 there is a broad margin. Eyes almost parallel ; at the top 

 separated by the length of the third and fourth antennal 

 joints. Clypeus not, or hardly, projecting in the middle ; the 



