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cylindrical, nearly filiform, scape brownish- yellow, bare, ist joint 

 twice as long as 2nd, fiagellum black with 8 annulations, subequal, 

 except that the last one is a little longer and pointed. 



Thorax black, microscopically pubescent, with bright lemon- 

 yellow markings as follows : — On anterior margin of prothorax ; 

 the humeral calli ; a large triangular mark at each end of the 

 transverse suture, in front of root of wing; a broad band from 

 shoulder to wing base ; the posterior margin of dorsum of thorax 

 broadly yellow, in the form of four contiguous triangles, the outer 

 ones approximate to wing bases ; a large spot placed diagonally 

 on the sternopleura; a curved one between it and the wing base 

 and a last one behind the wing, almost contiguous to the meta- 

 notum. Sides of thorax with extremely short and rather sparse 

 pubescence, which is black or 3'ellow in accordance with the colour 

 of the surface. 



Abdomen. — Basal segment reddish-brown, 2nd, except perhaps 

 at extreme tip, black ; remainder of abdomen reddish-brown, 

 with a narrow indistinct transverse blackish streak at base of 4th, 

 and a similarly coloured subquadrate large spot on base of 5th, 

 filling the major part of the segment. 



Legs. — Coxae black, tips sometimes a little paler ; anterior 

 legs 5^ellowish, tibiae indistinctly a little darker, fore tarsi black, 

 except metatarsus, middle metatarsi yellowish- white, rest of 

 tarsus brownish-3'ellow. Hind legs brownish-yellow, with indistinct 

 traces of brown here and there, base of femora narrowly pale 

 yellow; tibiae rather flattened at base and slightly pinched beyond 

 the middle, with two indistinct though fairly obvious moderately 

 broad blackish rings, one just beyond base, the 2nd sub-apical ; 

 tarsi brownish-yellow, last two or three joints black ; the 4th 

 joint in all the tarsi much shorter than any of the others. 



Wings pale grey, gradually darker on apical half, stigmatic 

 region moderately dark brown, ill defined ; halteres large, yellow. 

 Venation as in Pachygaster. 



Described from five cf a' , Darjiling, 1000 — 3000 ft.. May, 

 1912. All have been in papers (not in spirit) and are more or less 

 compressed, especially the thorax. 



Craspedometopon frontale, Kert. 



A cf from Darjiling, 1000 — 3000 ft., agreeing exacth^ with 

 specimens in the Indian Museum supplied by Prof. Kertesz, in 

 which collection are also two others from Tenasserim, 



? Gen. nov. near Acanthina, W. 



A single $ from Darjiling 1000 — 3000 ft., apparently repre- 

 sents an undescribed genus near Acanthina, but is in too bad con- 

 dition to describe. 



Ptecticus wulpii, Brun. 



Several specimens from Darjiling, 1000 — 3000 ft., v-1912, and 

 Singla, iv-1913, of this rather common Sargid. The extraordinary 



